Best thermal paste for GPU???

[Midcrypto]

Hello, anybody know the best thermal paste? The one that chills more

ARCTIC SILVER 5

Besides liquid metal which is much more difficult to work with, there is NO better thermal compound that exists!

[leowonderful]

Here's a TomsHardware article with a comparison of toothpaste against various types of thermal pastes using a CPU cooler with 'high' mounting pressure. Doesn't seem to perform too bad if you don't have anything better, but I have a tube of MX-2 in my house for CPU and GPU use; it's not much more expensive than the AS5, and it does a bit better in most applications. Unless you're buying paste from a noname brand or in bulk from China (I have had pretty bad experiences with bulk paste from Aliexpress), any thermal paste should work as long as you're applying it in the correct amount, cleaning off previous paste and mounting the GPU cooler on properly afterwards.

[Rough_R]

Arctic is  best for me.

[EthanB]

Unless you're buying paste from a noname brand or in bulk from China (I have had pretty bad experiences with bulk paste from Aliexpress), any thermal paste should work

In the case of your Aliexpress mishap would you say that you would have been better off with the toothpaste? Rather than the poor quality thermal paste. I'm sorry that I am so caught up on this, but I have never heard of such a thing and it's had my maximum interest ever since. Cause it sounds like, you'd be better off with some good toothpaste than you would be with some bad thermal paste.

[ivakar]

in fact if we are not speaking about some crazy no name paste from unknown source, I think any branded thermal paste will do. it will be better then the old one, because it is fresh )) but seriosly, I don't think that 1-2 C will make a great difference.. so arctic silver is good choice, but if you can find something cheaper locally - source it

[tonykakkar]

If you are looking for best thermal paste then I would recommend you to go for ARCTIC MX-4 Carbon-Based or Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound.

[maro101]

Thermal Grizzly conductonaut, and other Liquid metal products, is gallium based and it WILL alloy with your copper heatsink, reducing heat dissipation over time, and you will need to apply it again, and again, replace broken alloy heatsing, and add it again, and again, and so on.... i would only recomend it under ihs as it does not alloy so fast with nickel plated copper on the ihs, or in applications where replacing the heatsing in 1 to 2 years is cheap and not a problem.