MrBojangels
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I've finally exhausted all of my thermal paste and need to purchase a new tube; its been 5 years since I last purchased any thermal paste and what I found is most people go for the new MX-2 and MX-3 paste by Arctic Cooling. The reviews I've read show a max of 1-2C difference between all of these compounds.
So my question is, which one degrades the least over time? I put this stuff on systems I build, Xbox 360's, video cards, ect and I don't want to ever replace it if I don't have to. I've been told you can drop temps as much as 5C by replacing 2 year old AS5, is this true? Will MX-2 degrade as much over time? I also would like something that keeps as well as AS5 did as I had my 2 tubes of it for 5 years.
So my question is, which one degrades the least over time? I put this stuff on systems I build, Xbox 360's, video cards, ect and I don't want to ever replace it if I don't have to. I've been told you can drop temps as much as 5C by replacing 2 year old AS5, is this true? Will MX-2 degrade as much over time? I also would like something that keeps as well as AS5 did as I had my 2 tubes of it for 5 years.
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