Best thermal paste?

Daniel Johnson · Jun 18, 2015

Does anyone know what the best thermal paste for these EK RAM Monarch X4 waterblocks?

Would it be Coolaboratory Liquid Pro which is best for CPUs or is it something different?

i7Baby · Jun 18, 2015

Arctic Silver 5 or MX4. I use AS5. Others like MX4.

Vosgy · Jun 18, 2015

Personally like the noctua nt-h1.
AS5 is very easy to use though, but doesn't it have a burn in time?
Also how does burn in work on RAM?

Vosgy · Jun 18, 2015

Been looking at the http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-performance-benchmark,3616-19.html again.
Looks like MX4 is better than the nt-h1 under low pressure mount which I would assume is what RAM waterblocks would be attached under.
As for the Liquid Pro stuff, yes good on a CPU but extremely hard to apply and requires ruffing of the mount surface, don't think you can do that on ram chips. (looks like they attach to the heat sink that is already on the Corsair Dominator RAM, you could ruff up that surface I guess, using Liquid pro on memory that is in their slots still seems like not a great idea)

Daniel Johnson · Jun 18, 2015

Vosgy :

Are you sure you have to ruff the mount? I've never heard of such thing

Vosgy · Jun 18, 2015

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-performance-benchmark,3616-2.html

Daniel Johnson · Jun 18, 2015

Vosgy :

Oh I see, but why do that? Wouldn't spreading it like that create lots of air bubbles when the heatsink/waterblock is placed onto the IHS, which negatively impacts CPU temps?
It would be better to spread it into an X pattern and then allow the heatsink/waterblock to spread it. Yes it's more risky, but it can be done and theorectically should yield better results, no?

Daniel Johnson · Jun 18, 2015

Vosgy · Jun 18, 2015

The Idea of the liquid Pro and Ultra is that they loose the Moisture in them and then becomes a solid metal contact between the two surfaces, and because it is so fluid if you try to mount a cooler on with both surfaces being smooth and have too much on there it will all just push out the sides, then you have little balls of conductive metal all over your motherboard, as in the pictures on the article, this is not something you want. Also it affixes a lot more tightly so it is hard to remove the heat sink, requiring twisting motion to loosen, probably not a good motion to use on mounted RAM sticks.

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