R5 5600X | Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme | MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk | 16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3600/CL16 | MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X | Corsair RM650x | Cooler Master HAF X | Logitech G400s | DREVO Excalibur 84 | Kingston HyperX Cloud II | BenQ XL2411T + LG 24MK430H-B
This is what I use.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...ermal_Compound
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R5 5600X | Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme | MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk | 16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3600/CL16 | MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X | Corsair RM650x | Cooler Master HAF X | Logitech G400s | DREVO Excalibur 84 | Kingston HyperX Cloud II | BenQ XL2411T + LG 24MK430H-B
Never had to worry about TP quality, just take whatever. It's always nice to have a bit lying around, never know when a relative with 6 years old laptop might come by.
R5 5600X | Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme | MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk | 16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3600/CL16 | MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X | Corsair RM650x | Cooler Master HAF X | Logitech G400s | DREVO Excalibur 84 | Kingston HyperX Cloud II | BenQ XL2411T + LG 24MK430H-B
Unless you go with the liquid metal stuff, not really.
Not even a 3 degree difference, unless you want to count the much much more expensive liquid metal options. Even at that though, they are only offereing about another 2-3 degrees over the best pastes and only 11.5 degree difference from denture cream. Personally, I did use the Coolaboratory liquid pro on my current builds, just for the hell of it, but at the temps my CPU stays at, even under stress test, I'd be fine with denture cream. Toothpaste might be getting a little hot under stress test, but appears as though it would be fine under normal usage. So no, not really a substantial difference.
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Considering the default turbo boost is 3.9, not 3.5, it's only about half the OC you think it is, and yeah, not that much. 4.5 is a pretty average OC for that CPU, not serious at all.
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And the aging. Yes, paste will flow off from there to some extent over time, while a good part of the solids will not go anywhere. Thermal cycling accelerates this to some degree. Now the question is, when does this effect become relevant. And the answer is: when the system starts to overheat / become unstable / throttle. If none of that happens, few degrees here and there make no difference. And since judging by OP's CPU, which is not a "K-model," any serious overclocking is not part of the plan. In the non-overclocked systems I've had or heard of since the 90s, be the system 1 or 5+ years old, they have had no overheat issues whatsoever if they have had none to begin with.
What comes to serious overclocking where every degree counts, I'd still however recommend the same: If the system shows no signs of overheating, why bother?
edit: misread the quoted post. removed irrelevant part
Last edited by ifrah; 2016-08-23 at 01:16 PM.