Best thermal compound/paste for cooling CPU

[peche]

that depends. Sometimes its worth trying out something new. you can never beat MX-4 on price|performance a 20g tube is just so cheap

there is always the chance that do a try out when your trusted paste is gone, and there are other you know that work as efficient as your trusted one does, but there is always the fact that no all the pastes should be applied the same, also cooler may affect, but that is our a exception at least for me

My trusted compounds and pastes:
Arctic Cooling MX4 / MX2
Thermaltake TG -2
coollaboratory Liquid Pro / Ultra
Arctic Silver 5 * (last option, i don't like its curing time, )

For Budget save works ... also for light use GPU's
Coolermaster Ice Fusion i got a win for a budget flask ... 30G for $8 something like that,

Regards,

 

[fullinfusion]

Gelid extreme hands down.

I've used MX 2,4 , AS5, icd 24, and now GC extreme... I'm using it on 2 hot bastards, an R9 290 and 290x and I was shocked on how well it lowered the temperatures.. After that I removed the ol trusty mx4 off my cpu and use gelid extreme on everything now and never regretted it since

 

[Sayyid]

Thank you all guys for your useful participation. I really appreciate it. After reading the comments here I think since I can afford it I would try my luck with Gelid Extreme instead of Coollaboratory. Hope everything then will go right and smooth.

 

[peche]

Thank you all guys for your useful participation. I really appreciate it. After reading the comments here I think since I can afford it I would try my luck with Gelid Extreme instead of Coollaboratory. Hope everything then will go right and smooth.

well another fact to know, coollab will destroy some coolers... on cooper its okay but niquel or aluminium can get damaged,
Regards,

 

[fullinfusion]

@Sayyid The gelid comes with a small rubber spatchula so use it. Put a dab in the center of whatever your pasting and spread it out nice and evenly. I usually do the bb size method but with the GC you'll get better results using the spreader that's included

The other brands I'd just let the cooler spread it but like I said the GC WILL benefit by spreading it.

Be sure to post your findings for others to see once you get it applied.

 

[kikicoco1334]

i've always liked OCZ freeze the old school kind not the new stuff. i hoarded a lot of it while back when it was found all over the place

i haven't overclocked for a few years now so might be a good time to get back into it... but too damn busy at work x.x

 

[fullinfusion]

i've always liked OCZ freeze the old school kind not the new stuff. i hoarded a lot of it while back when it was found all over the place

i haven't overclocked for a few years now so might be a good time to get back into it... but too damn busy at work x.x

I wished I could hoard myself the GC paste, but here where I live, its nowhere to be found.

Plus the shop in the states I ordered it from got closed down, so now the search goes on.