Thermal grease to buy

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#1 Silicel1
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Hi and all I wanted to know what thermal grease is popular in 2010 at the moment I used arctic silver 5 but is there anything better I have done some reaserch and read good things about IC diamond, now does anyone have any other oppinions on whats the best I could buy.

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#2 bluemustang16
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I use MX-3, a little thick but works well and it's not electrically conductive (won't harm your MB if any oozes out).

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#3 Jaysonguy
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THIS IS ALL YOU SHOULD USE

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#4 MaoTheChimp
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TBH, unless you're trying to achieve that absolute best overclock possible on your system, I suggest sticking with the AS5 you've got right now. You're scarcely going to see a 3 Celsius benefit by switching to a different TIM.

And a word of caution; IC Diamond has the ability to distort or remove the information printed on the IHS of a processor, so I'd avoid using it if you intend on keeping the warranty valid.

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#5 skinntech
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tuniq tx-2 or the ocz freeze there pretty much a tie. To be honest though your only gonna see a 3-4c degree drop in temps. You could always lapp your processor and that might get you up to the 6-7c drop range but that all depends on how warped the ihs is. It might not drop your idle temps very much, its your load temps where your gonna see the biggest drop.

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#6 Fightingfan
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Just use anything that's not made in some mysterious Asian country you never heard of. I seen people swear by Arctic Silver but after trying it myself I still obtained about the same results as any generic thermal compound.
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#7 freesafety13
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I have used AC5, OCZ Freeze, and IC Diamond 7. OCZ freeze improved my temps by 3c-4c over AC5 and IC Diamond 7 was an improvement over OCZ by another 3c-5c. I was trying to obtain the highest OC possible without cracking the 70c barrier. I even lapped my TRUE and cpu. Get IC Diamond but 1 word of advice, make sure you have is soak in some hot water before you apply it, its very thick and difficult to get out of the tube if you don't.