So what grease do you guys use? I used to use only Arctic Silver 5 but recently I needed a tube of grease and didn't want to wait for shipping so I had to go look in stores. Ended up with a tube of this stuff, seems to be working just as well as AS5 and was actually a little cheaper, and it's harder to lose since the tubs isn't fucking TINY like AS5 is. The diamond dust meme is a little cringe though.
What about you guys? Anyone using the grease that came with their chip? How is it working out?
doesn't matter which brand, make sure to get thermal adhesive instead of paste as it's much less prone to trapping air inside of it and transfers heat better than conventional paste.
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Hmm, I have actually never heard of the difference.
What's the actual difference, just the composition?
this is a horrible idea if you're delidded or doing it to a gpu
>The diamond dust meme is a little cringe though.
Why? Because of the stupid gemstone graphic?
kek
It just feels like a marketing gimmick. For all I know diamond powder really is the bees knees for thermal conductivity, but on the surface it feels like marketing.
Mayonnaise.
>For all I know diamond powder really is the bees knees for thermal conductivity
It really is.
Actually works pretty well
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Is it better than silver? Why would other brands not be using it if ThermalTake bothers to?
It's a great gift, too. Give it to your girlfriend and tell her it's full of diamonds.
I still have a tube of this stuff. So far it's done the job for
Core 2 Duo e8400 @ 3.5ghz
Phenom II x4 955 @ 4.0ghz
i5-4690k @ 4.6ghz (current)
Mx4 or coolabs ultra/pro
>lmao dude u got hot temps?
>i gotchya my man all you ever need to do is replace thermal paste and its good even tho u did that yesterday
>mfw nothing fixes my hot temps except pushing the cooler onto the CPU while screwing it in, to get it to actually fucking screw in all the way and make contact with the heatsink
>mfw now my cpu will probably die soon
all those hot temps
all those years
lost like lava in a volcano
>Is it better than silver?
about 2-3x better yes
>Why would other brand not be using it
Not sure, you'd have to ask them.
Nigger, buy a thermal pad
You might need the 0.5mm, these are mostly for GPUs. The pad will make an even surface and close any gaps between your cooler and cpu.
Hmm. That really is neat. Looks like I won't be buying any Meme Silver 5 from now on.
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Mustard works just fine.
I use MX-2.
It's okay. Nothing special.
I used some of this for my 6700k build