thermal paste yes it doesn't make for a very interesting unboxing but thermal
paste is important without thermal paste your system just plain wouldn't work and
Arctic cooling makes some of the best thermal paste on the market their mx1
turned the entire thermal past Market which is I mean it's small but turned
the entire thermal paast Market on its ear because it was the best performing
one out there and it was a non-metallic
compound so previously the uh the best
regarded thermal paste out there was Arctic Silver 5 I mean there were some
more exotic things but uh it was generally acknowledged that without
metal content a thermal paste couldn't be a top performer like I said mx1
turned that all around and this is the fourth iteration of their MX series of
thermal compounds uh mx1 had some disadvantage
one was that it was extremely thick it was very hard to spread uh which made it
kind of inconvenient to apply and MX2
addressed that so Arctic cooling keeps taking their product which has
consistently been a top performer in the marketplace and improving it so mx4
right here features a syringe with a cap
who look at that high technology and and
viewing holes so you can see how much mx4 is left in the the syringe without
any difficulty okay
so incredibly they don't compare mx4 to
their previous generation MX3 although they do compare it against a bunch of
other products on the market lower is obviously better for cooling and they
show it against pritech pk1 GED gc2
collabor cool laboratory Liquid Ultra that was one of those Exotic Solutions
that used to be quite well regarded okay it is a non-metallic thermal compound
which means it is non-conductive non-capacitive even if you get it all
over your stuff which is still not recommended cuz total mess to clean up
uh it will not ruin anything unmatched performance so they're saying it is the
highest performance formula available durability it is non-curing and
nonbleeding which means it does not need to be replaced for up to 8 years and if
your system's actually 8 years old and you haven't done anything with it well
it's probably time to you know think about doing something different anyway that's another disadvantage of older
thermal compounds was that they needed to rep be replaced every couple years or
they would actually dry up or they would um and not be usable anymore non-curing
also means that it doesn't have uh a period where it's not fully functional
yet like I said some of the older thermal compounds did have disadvantages
one of them was that they wouldn't be 100% uh of their total performance until
they had been through a couple of heating up and cooling down Cycles so
mx1 and any of the later generation MX products do not have that disadvantage
so it's recommended for CPU GPU and any power semiconductor components so
basically anything that produces heat and has a heat sink you want to put this
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