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Arctic MX-6 shelf life is just a couple months?

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I bought some mx-6 a week or so after it released. Used it on my 9900kf and rtx2070 shortly after that. Temps were solid on both. Pulled them a couple of months ago to go back to water. Temps never changed, paste was just as viscous as the day I applied it. No complaints. I must be lucky Still have the tube in my drawer waiting to get used up along with the mx-4 20g tube and mx-5. Have to stop using up all of my PK3 first dangit.
 

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I have probably used close to 80-100g of TIM since I moved to AM4.. just playing with CPUs, and coolers.. and boards lol..

My favorite so far is probably SYY-157. I just bought my first 40g tube of it. I think its the old formula too because it is a bit thicker than what I am used to.

Perfection imo :)

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