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[ H ]Enthusiast did a test of some of the top thermal pastes on the market and these are the results

Thermal Paste Testing

Seems that there is some better stuff out there then the old standard AS5. I used the MX2 stuff and was very pleased with it. Kept my temp pretty low.

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Thanks for the excellent link to a great article at [ H ]. (I know this sticky thread is a month+ old now, but still good stuff).

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Quote from article:

"If you're wondering why we didn't use a higher output fan it's because we want there to be more pressure on the thermal paste to conduct the heat away and give us a bigger delta between pastes. A super high-output fan would minimize the differences between pastes."

 This is wrong. Since the amount of heat the CPU generates does not depend on the fan blowing on it, the heat flowing through the paste doesn't either. Whatever. It is a test of some kind.