What benifits do aftermarket thermal pastes have

Billzegun1 · Aug 26, 2014

I was planning on getting a h100i liquid cooling unit, and my friend brought up thermal paste, now I was just wondering what the benefits are of getting arctic silver 5 (or any recommended others) compared to the stock thermal paste

legend001523 · Aug 26, 2014

Stock is fine, you don't need to apply it if it's pre applied really...

ss202sl · Aug 26, 2014

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-heat-sink-heat-spreader,3600.html

DubbleClick · Aug 26, 2014

The h100i paste is pretty good if I recall correctly.

Other than that, aftermarket thermal pastes usually transfer heat better, resulting in better cpu cooling.

Billzegun1 · Aug 26, 2014

Just to be clear, I am planning to overlock my cpu (4790k is what I'm getting) to near max I can stable with this cooler, and I want to know wether the thermal paste would do that or if the aftermarket would make much of a difference

legend001523 · Aug 26, 2014

It won't really, you might be even making it thicker so heat can't transfer as well if you add your own paste, pre applied it fine

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