Thermal Greese

[omechengineeru]

Plotting out my build. What is the best grease to use? Should i just use the stuff that comes with my zalman im ordering or AS5, MX2, AS5 creamique?

 

[JamesBart]

ive been out the game to long! i dont even know what this is best of luck mate

 

[StrangleHold]

I,ve been using MX-2 and TX-2 and had good luck with both.

 

[g4m3rof1337]

I'd go with Arctic Silver 5.

 

[Kornowski]

AS5 gets my vote.

 

[ScOuT]

Arctic Silver 5 gets my vote also. Lapped my CPU cooler, use a BB size amount of AS5 and everything is alright.

Intel Q9300 @ 2.875
Cooler Master Hyper TX2

Prime95 running for about an hour

 

[pdc76]

I use Zalman ZM-STG1. It's the paint on type. It's not listed in the poll, but it's pretty good stuff.

 

[oregon]

I'm pretty sure MX-2 is officially better than AS5, probably the best in the list...

 

[mep916]

MX-2. No scientific evidence to support that, I just prefer it over AS5. But like Oregon said, there are some charts out there that show MX-2 performing better than AS5. Spanky showed me a few awhile back...I'll see if I can dig them up.

 

[Kornowski]

There's one called Shin Etsu which is supposed to be like the best ever, apparently the people that go for world record OC's use it;

http://www.crazypc.com/products/50118.html

I've never tried it though.

 

[fade2green514]

well, i vote arctic silver 5 but its all ive ever used. the next one that i want to use is coollaboratory liquid pro... for the cpu that i dont plan on upgrading.