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Subject: Heat sink compound or thermal paste
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freakman 28.03.12 - 03:44pm
Which 1 do u prefer ? N pls am not interested in water cooling .thank you! so far a ve only tried arctic silver (vertical line application) am not sure about others is there any gold paste ? Any other substitute upto 8 quids ? * +
jupiter2 28.03.12 - 04:30pm
Thermal paste is a heatsink compound.... So both are the same.... Anyways, the gray coloured thermal paste available in the market is good enough to do the job for u.... Don't waste ur money to buy some fancy packaged pastes... But avoid some cheap white semi-liquid pastes which they sell as thermal paste.... * +
nfxcr3w 28.03.12 - 05:28pm
formular 5 thermal paste is best 1 ask jay.mack and spartan not that cheap thou about 10 quid * +
pob9 28.03.12 - 09:40pm
using mx-4 atm wud also recomend ocz freeze * +
rippled 29.03.12 - 12:09am
I just use aluminium oxide grease (whitestuff) I been using it for years in a v repairs industry ,that fancy named stuff works slightly better but to notice the difference youll need labtech ,so buy the whitestuff or waste your money if like fancy named sheite * +
mass1 29.03.12 - 02:44am
sum use toothpaste * +
jupiter2 29.03.12 - 03:42am
Spending money in overpriced paste is a waste... Just use a normal one... I wonder why some people are too concerned about the thermal paste... Its only used to fill the tiny air gaps between the processor and HS for conducting heat... It wont make too much of a difference if u use a normal one or a high priced.... Instead, just concentrate on your cooler type, that will make the real difference... * +
jay.mack 29.03.12 - 08:21am
actually jupiter there is quite a variance in paste and end results... most cheap paste will give between 5-10 degrees higher temps than a quality pase will. quality compounds like arctiv silver 5 or 7, mx-4, tuniq x3 or x4 and zalman grease are all quality products that will drop temps by 5 or more degrees over the stock paste you get on an intel hsf or amd hsf... all cost between 5 and 7 pounds its not designed to fill air pockets ists designed to level out the surface of the cpu and hsf its * +
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