Thermal Compounds

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Which thermal compound do you guys use/recommend? I have heard good things about Arctic Silver 5 and Arctic Ceramique. I need to get a small tube of this stuff for my next build... Any suggestions/recommendations?
 
if I recall, AS5 isn't really recommended because it is conductive. not sure about the Ceramique. MX-2 is suppose to be good.
 
IMHO, unless you're going for world record overclocks where a quarter of a degree is make or break territory.....there's little difference between them.

I just put a new machine together and I used Ceramique. It's reasonably priced and pretty much as good as any. Score a fresh tube and follow the instructions on AS's web site. Hard to go wrong.
 
2.5g of ceramique will last through at the very least 10 cpus, if you don't waste too much. Probably more like 15, depending on the size of the spreader. I have a 3.5g tube of AS5 that I've had for, oh, I dunno, 6 years now? Use it to reseat all my laptop heatsinks and a couple desktops here and there, and the plunger has barely moved.
 
any thermal compound is usually better than the compound provided by the heatsink manufacturer or that has been applied by a mass-market retailer like Dell/HP. However, the compound included with heatsinks is getting better as they smarten up. The 33-way shootout article includes some good notes on that.
 
Woofer00 said:
any thermal compound is usually better than the compound provided by the heatsink manufacturer or that has been applied by a mass-market retailer like Dell/HP. However, the compound included with heatsinks is getting better as they smarten up. The 33-way shootout article includes some good notes on that.
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Yeah. I received a tube of thermal compound with my Thermalright Ultra-120 but didn't use it. I think I'll go with the MX-2 that people are recommending, and it's only $2 more than the Ceramique. Thanks everyone.
 
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