Which Thermal Paste

nellyp67 · 1 Nov 2015 at 19:44

Which thermal paste do u guys recommend, i am in the process of RMAing my Corsair H110 and currently using artic silver paste so perfect time to change paste.Have to say the customer service so far has been excellent

Borealis · 1 Nov 2015 at 19:59

Arctic silver is perfectly good, but it is electrically conductive as it's silver-based.

MX-2 or 4 are very good and I'm currently using Prolimatech PK-1 as I bought a big tube a while back. Thermal Grizzy is also meant to be very good. These are all non-conductive.

BriT · 1 Nov 2015 at 19:59

This seems to the rage right now. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...mance-thermal-paste-1.5ml-3.9g-th-003-tg.html

thebennyboy · 1 Nov 2015 at 20:01

Currently using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and and very pleased with how it performs.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...ance-thermal-paste-5.5g-1.5-ml-th-001-tg.html

Borealis · 1 Nov 2015 at 20:47

Yeah, if I was buying at the moment, I'd get thermal grizzly. It's just that I've got one of the huge PK-1 tubes from when I was doing a lot of system building and repairs for friends.

nellyp67 · 1 Nov 2015 at 21:33

Thanks for the input - just ordered the thermal grizzly kryonaut

PuzzlezAFC · 2 Nov 2015 at 12:05

Let me know how it is for you as I'm thinking of purchasing it also but would like more feedback

tres_kun · 2 Nov 2015 at 12:36

I am fairly positive that attic silver is not conductive
It is capacitive
So it might kill a chip but not unless you do something terrible and stupid

clone · 2 Nov 2015 at 13:17

MX4 great stuff.

koolpc · 2 Nov 2015 at 13:21

tres_kun said:
I am fairly positive that attic silver is not conductive
It is capacitive
So it might kill a chip but not unless you do something terrible and stupid

Thats a rather 'Lofty' statement!

Borealis · 2 Nov 2015 at 13:23

I assumed the OP was using arctic silver 5, which contains silver and that being silver-based it would be conductive. Having read the arctic silver 5 page (http://www.arcticsilver.com/as5.htm) I stand corrected. Interesting that a paste made from 99.9% silver isn't conductive.

Anyway you'd have to do something really stupid to kill a chip, like smear the stuff on the pins!

8 Pack · 2 Nov 2015 at 13:29

For water cooling AIO I would go Griz Hydronaut. Developed for just that usage. Top perf and none conductive.

Glanza · 2 Nov 2015 at 14:06

Thermal grizz is the flavour of the last few months.

ci_newman · 2 Nov 2015 at 14:13

I still use AS5

foster grant · 2 Nov 2015 at 14:21

8 Pack said:
For water cooling AIO I would go Griz Hydronaut. Developed for just that usage. Top perf and none conductive.

I added that to my 290x lol...ended up with 5c less under load

PuzzlezAFC · 2 Nov 2015 at 23:07

clone said:
MX4 great stuff.

this is what i currently use been doing me well since

OLDPHART · 3 Nov 2015 at 08:34

Using EK Water Block EK-TIM Ectotherm on my CPU block very easy to spread temps as good as MX4.