Ryan WalmsleyI somehow have ended up with lots of thermal paste.
Let's give them all a try and see which wins!
First up the cheapest paste I have. "HY710", just a cheap one available easily on eBay / AliExpress etc.
HY710 Results:
Cinebench Score of 8085 with wattage peaking at 197.3, Temp of 98 Degrees.
Prime 95 Max temp of 104 at 204 Watts.
3D Mark 16,990 with an avg temperature of 58 Degrees.
To be honest for the cheapest one I have this actually did much better than I expected so far.
Next up was Thermalright TF4.
Improved results across the board, whilst only marginal Cinebench was up to 8093 and 3D Mark to 17,034 margin of errors.
However, Cinebench only maxed out at 84 Degrees, Prime 95 down to 98 Degrees and 3D Mark at 55 Degrees
Still a fairly cheap paste, but by a recognized brand.
Bit easier to spread too.
Mike Spooner@Ryanteck You should give Shin-Etsu X23-7783D a go. I've been pasting hot ICs since 2003 and that one has by far the best thermal performance out of all I have tried. It has the very nice additional property that it doesn't completely dry out or go crusty even after decades of heat-stress.
@shelldozer I've never seen that but could be worth a try!
To be honest so far I've just been testing ones I've had sitting around that I've gotten as part of coolers and such.
I did have PTM7950 for a while which seemed decent too.
@shelldozer Oh apparently it's partially used as the base for NT-H1? That I have used before and was decent!