July 26, 201510 yr I saw that TomsHardware chart a while back and I'd take its ranking of AS5 with a large grain of salt, for did they give it a 200 hour (!!!) burn in? It is really good stuff and have used it in years past, but as I said the tech has moved on and so have I (though I still got a partially used tube of it sitting about). CPU: AMD 9800X3D PBO MB +200 CO -25| Motherboard: MSI MAG X870e Tomahawk WiFi | GPU: MSI RTX 5090 Ventus 3X OC | RAM: G.Skill 2x32GB DDR5 6000 cas 30 | M.2 SSDs: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2T, WD Black SN750 M.2 1T | Hard Drive: WD Black HDD 6T 7200 | Optical Drive: LG Bluray writer, internal | Cooling: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO | Case: Fractal Design Focus G | PSU: NZXT C1200 1200W Win 11 Pro 64|HP Reverb G2 revised VR HMD|Asus 25" IPS 2K 60Hz monitor|Saitek X52 Pro & Peddles|TIR 5 (now retired)
July 27, 201510 yr To be honest, I had been using Coollaboratory diamond paste for quite a while. Switched to MX4 recently and like it. Easy to apply and great temps.
July 28, 201510 yr In my opinion, given that there's only a few degrees between the best TIM and the popular runners up, it makes sense to go for the easiest to apply, the paste that doesn't need a break-in period or dries out. Makes no difference to the stability of our overclocks. None of us are within a couple of degrees of instability, or at least we shouldn't t be.
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