Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

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Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by BigBiker05 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:14 pm

So here's a little tech question, or mostly preference.

So I bought a tube of thermal paste, my MoBo came with a tube, my heatsink came with a tube, and I already had a tube in my toolbox.

So, here's the Q., which one is best pony?

EVGA Frostbite (came with MoBo)
Dynex (will probably throw away)
Arctic Silver 5 (my guess, the one I bought)
CoolMaster Supreme (came with heatsink)

So...

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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by One_Medic_Army » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:22 pm

Which one is the old stuff in your toolbox? If it's not the AS5 I'd use that.
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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by The Domer » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:40 pm

I'm hardly an expert on these sort of things, but when I built my pc, I used Arctic Silver 5.

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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by BigBiker05 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:47 pm

Dynex is the old stuff, plus it is just what best buy carries so I happened to pick it up last time I needed it.

Arctic 5 is the one I bought, it seems to have the highest popularity on NewEgg. Unless anyone says otherwise I'll be using it.

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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by TheCarpe » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:09 pm

I've never had a problem with Arctic Silver.
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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by Clay Pigeon » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:21 pm

I just used the coolermaster stuff with my current build, and I'm happy with my temps. My last build used as5 with a thermalright cooler, and I wasn't happy with the temps.
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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by Masakari » Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:49 pm

AS5. Have had terrible luck with everything else.
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Post by bullet4o1 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:03 pm

I just use whatever crap is already on the processor.
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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by somedude » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:34 pm

Nice roundup here, look at the numbers and decide for yourself: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/26835 ... undup-2011
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Re: Oh My Gawd, Thermal Grease EVERYWHERE!!!

Post by BigBiker05 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:33 pm

somedude wrote:Nice roundup here, look at the numbers and decide for yourself: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/26835 ... undup-2011
Arctic 5 is the only one on that chart, nice find nonetheless.
(been working on my PC all night, used arctic 5)

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