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Someone here can correct me; lithium grease is for lubrication so it would not be useful as a thermal grease, or for coil whine.

WD-40 is a terrible lubricant, so most anything would be better.

For fans one might use Mobile 1 fully synthetic grease, although I actually use fully synthetic engine oil myself.

Now I do used silicon oil on computer connectors, but it is not a great idea for switches.

Because it's not one, and WD-40 is great for getting shit done it's just people use it for the wrong thing(s).
 
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WD40 is a degreaser, so the opposite of a lubricant.
 
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WD40 is a degreaser, so the opposite of a lubricant.
Hi,
I'd add it's a cleaner, grease yes plus rust/ corrosion ..
It's dries out so it's a temporary smelly lubricant next should be machine oil/ silicon .... for final lubricant application.

I wasn't all that impressed with the alien baby crap/ mx-5 sadly
 
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WD40 does also makes a "dry lube" PTFE spray now, works great for cleaning and lubing inside key holes that is a common problem here because of weather and such
 
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This thread is about Arctic MX-5, not about WD-40 products. Let's get back on topic folks..
It's ridiculous that there's a whole separate thread for just one thermal paste. I thought that absolutely no one cared about them as they all perform pretty much the same and you just buy the cheapest available one. It's truly as ridiculous as talking about which gas station petrol you buy. Silly thread, silly answers. It's only fair.
 
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still have MX5 since 30. April on my 6900XT
Temps are identical to day one.
 
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I'm interested in experiences with GD900 compared to MX-5
 
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For price it's good but nothing can beat thermal grizzly kryonaut
 
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This thread is about Arctic MX-5, not about WD-40 products. Let's get back on topic folks..
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Yeah where did wd-40 come from lol

But maybe add this to the op for peoples wondering interests of other thermal pastes

I just didn't think mx-5 wasn't all that special from nt-h1 which I've never had an issue with and never saw any pump out effects and 9940x/ 10900k were pushed lol
 
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nt-h1 which I've never had an issue with and never saw any pump out effects

Seems to me the only way to avoid pump-out is to have the paste solidify.
 
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Seems to me the only way to avoid pump-out is to have the paste solidify.
Or have the absolute perfect tim spread. Which is well nigh impossible ime.
 
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Even then, the top surface expands and so pulls TIM out.
 
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I have mx4, I don't like it. Sucks that I bought the largest tube.
 
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For price it's good but nothing can beat thermal grizzly kryonaut
Multiple people on overclock.net recently have complained about *both* Kryonaut and Kryonaut Extreme slowly drying out on their waterblock'd RTX 3090's.
Two users (Jura11 and I think cstkl1) both switched to Thermalright TFX and said it's alot more consistent long term and durable.

A third user tried to explain exactly why the "silicone" greases, which are made with a form of rubber, have this problem, and the Nano particle grease (made with carbon) are much better--but are significantly harder to actually work with (spread).
The problem with the carbon nano greases (TFX, SYY-157, FuzeIce, T9+ Platinum, Coolermaster Cryofuze, which seems to be very suspiciously like Thermalright TFX/Thermagic ZF-EX) is they are all atrocious under subzero.

Someone tell me this isn't the same as TFX...my ZF-EX behaves identically to this in spreading/stickiness/thickness...


 

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Its a little thick, definitely looks familiar.. :laugh: I went through 8g of SYY-157 perfecting my spread lol. When I ran out I bought another 10g :D
 
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Multiple people on overclock.net recently have complained about *both* Kryonaut and Kryonaut Extreme slowly drying out

Still not convinced that drying out is a bad thing.
 

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Still not convinced that drying out is a bad thing.
Its not..

In the instructions for my TIM it says apply a thin even coat across the IHS and let it sit for 15 minutes before you mount the cooler.

Works good :)
 
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And the stuff one gets pre-applied to some CPU heatsinks is already dry.
 

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Still not convinced that drying out is a bad thing.

It is if the temps go up 8C in 4 months....
It isn't just drying out
the temps are getting worse. and people are removing the heatsinks and seeing the paste like it's plaster or something (i dont know the material, dried clay?).
It's on the OCN forums a few pages back on the 3090 thread.
 
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