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thermal paste yes it doesn't make for a very interesting unboxing but thermal

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paste is important without thermal paste your system just plain wouldn't work and

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Arctic cooling makes some of the best thermal paste on the market their mx1

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turned the entire thermal past Market which is I mean it's small but turned

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the entire thermal paast Market on its ear because it was the best performing

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one out there and it was a non-metallic

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compound so previously the uh the best

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regarded thermal paste out there was Arctic Silver 5 I mean there were some

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more exotic things but uh it was generally acknowledged that without

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metal content a thermal paste couldn't be a top performer like I said mx1

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turned that all around and this is the fourth iteration of their MX series of

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thermal compounds uh mx1 had some disadvantage

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one was that it was extremely thick it was very hard to spread uh which made it

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kind of inconvenient to apply and MX2

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addressed that so Arctic cooling keeps taking their product which has

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consistently been a top performer in the marketplace and improving it so mx4

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right here features a syringe with a cap

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who look at that high technology and and

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viewing holes so you can see how much mx4 is left in the the syringe without

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any difficulty okay

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so incredibly they don't compare mx4 to

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their previous generation MX3 although they do compare it against a bunch of

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other products on the market lower is obviously better for cooling and they

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show it against pritech pk1 GED gc2

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collabor cool laboratory Liquid Ultra that was one of those Exotic Solutions

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that used to be quite well regarded okay it is a non-metallic thermal compound

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which means it is non-conductive non-capacitive even if you get it all

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over your stuff which is still not recommended cuz total mess to clean up

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uh it will not ruin anything unmatched performance so they're saying it is the

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highest performance formula available durability it is non-curing and

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nonbleeding which means it does not need to be replaced for up to 8 years and if

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your system's actually 8 years old and you haven't done anything with it well

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it's probably time to you know think about doing something different anyway that's another disadvantage of older

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thermal compounds was that they needed to rep be replaced every couple years or

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they would actually dry up or they would um and not be usable anymore non-curing

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also means that it doesn't have uh a period where it's not fully functional

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yet like I said some of the older thermal compounds did have disadvantages

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one of them was that they wouldn't be 100% uh of their total performance until

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they had been through a couple of heating up and cooling down Cycles so

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mx1 and any of the later generation MX products do not have that disadvantage

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so it's recommended for CPU GPU and any power semiconductor components so

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basically anything that produces heat and has a heat sink you want to put this

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