Which paste to use

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

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I have been having issues with temps on my 9950X3D which is being cooled by a Peerless Assassin 120SE even though it's idling at 44/47degrees. My main issue I know I didn't put the paste on correctly I did it the blob way and let the cooler do the spreading, I just haven't had the time to reseat it but I have now. Since having this on release date I have had nothing but temp issues mainly when opening video files and playing them via VLC or MPC-BE and also opening certain webpages via Chrome.

So anyway cut the long story short I have 3 tubes of paste but no idea which one would be the best.

1 - Thermal Right TF7 - This come with the Peerless and which I am using at the moment.
2 - Cool Master Mastergel Pro
3 - Artic MX-4

Which one would you use out of these 3? I had a quick look into it and it did look like the Artic MX come out on top slightly.

Thanks for any help.
 
I was just about to put an order in for some mx-6 but I had already purchased some 8 months forgot all about it, it was inside my motherboard box so might as well use that.
 
It's not the actual temps I am worried about its the actual amount of paste I put on which I don't think was enough. The main issue I have with this cooler is the fans spinning too much when all I am doing is opening a video file or zynga poker in Chrome. This doesn't happen in Opera only Chrome. I thought it could just be a windows issue but I have tried 3 different Linux distro's and it worked OK in only 1 which was fedora KDE plasma but I couldn't keep using Linux I was having other issues with finding alternative software so had to come back to windows for now.
 
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