discussion This thermal paste reviewed by igorslab looks to be pretty good.

[wade7575]

I always like to try new things because you never know what's better unless you try something different every so often.

I seen this thermal paste by a small relatively unknown company in China and igors lab seemed pretty surprised by how well it performed,I looked to see if it's on amazon yet and it is not yet,they other paste's on their but not the HY-PY17 stuff.

Although it seems like they way over exaggerated the thermal conductivity and saying it's 17.3 W/mK it still seems to have performed not to badly against DOWSIL TC-5888

https://www.igorslab.de/en/halnziye...the-test-overachiever-or-too-good-to-be-true/

 

[moocow]

Do members in the community actually go out of their way to get these kind of thermal paste? Looking at the over all paste summary chart, getting a Duranaut and calling it a day seems fine for most people. My take away is that the huge tube of MX4 I got should only be use on CPU and that's it.

 

[sswilson]

There's a few folks here who try them.

I personally have gotten to the point where I'm not chasing the 3-5c improvement I'd get over my big arse MX4 tube. (Although I will admit that the tube is probably past it's best before date.... ).

 

[Bond007]

My recent coolers came with reasonable thermalright paste that I used, otherwise I use an old tube of mx4 I have. When that is gone, I may give duronaut a shot.

 

[CMetaphor]

I've got some kryonaut ones to try, especially when I (someday) redo an overheating 3080 Asus blower card. Could report on the experience when it happens, but it won't be any time soon.

@wade7575 why not stay a new thread for reposting results? A whole thread of befores and afters, lessons learned, etc.

 

[Caldezar]

Kryonaut 3 pack on Amazon for $25. Done and done. Cheap and very effective. Having them split in to 3 packs helps as well, since each one staying sealed helps extend life if they sit for a while.

I'm with SSWilson here... it's FAR too much effort trying to squeeze every degree out of every component. Buy a decent cooler and decent paste, then live your life. Squeezing OC performance out of CPU's isn't as big a thing for most people as it was back in the LGA1155 or 939 Opteron days. Not to mention the serious cost of failure in today's market. I don't OC at all anymore, instead just focusing on keeping components relatively well taken care of under stock conditions.

 

[Marzipan]

There's a few folks here who try them.

I personally have gotten to the point where I'm not chasing the 3-5c improvement I'd get over my big arse MX4 tube. (Although I will admit that the tube is probably past it's best before date.... ).

one can hope the diamond separates from the grease., eh?

 

[freeagent]

I use SYY-157, and it is a really good TIM. Really the only thing better that I have used is Thermalright TFX. He gave SYY-157 a low rating, so now I have to disagree with his TIM testing lol.

 

[CMetaphor]

My goto for ages was Gelid GC extreme actually. Came in a little jar, unscrew the cap, paste was dense as hell, and had to be applied using a cool mini plastic trowel onto cpus. Worked better than everything else I have/had, but admittedly I don't have the latest MX4s and whatnot. Generic Noctua and similar stuff was worse than the Gelid stuff though, probably because of that density.

Only got the kyronaut stuff for repasting gpus (when im feeling EXTRA brave to do it), but maybe I'll give it a try on my main gamer upgrade too.

Question is, what thickness pads? I *think* the ones I got were 0.2mm, which sounds right to me, IDk

 

[freeagent]

I use a Thermalright Heilos pad on my 4070Ti, its been a year.. so far better than the factory stuff. It is the Intel pad