Thermal Paste for i7 6700k?
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The best? Arctic Silver high density is probably the best. You'd be lucky to see a 2° difference using it over the thermal paste your cooler comes with though, not worth the 5-7 bucks.
Skylake (i7 6700k) cool extremely efficiently, you dont have to worry about specific paste
you could safely use any stock paste coming with any stock cooler and you would be 110% totally fine and safe
Skylake cool so great, you can even get solid overclock result on even modest air coolers
no need to worry about paste unless you are that super "enthusiast" that demand the 2-3c temp difference prime top shelf aftermarket paste will give you
save your money, treat yourself to something nice for the same price
you could safely use any stock paste coming with any stock cooler and you would be 110% totally fine and safe
Skylake cool so great, you can even get solid overclock result on even modest air coolers
no need to worry about paste unless you are that super "enthusiast" that demand the 2-3c temp difference prime top shelf aftermarket paste will give you
save your money, treat yourself to something nice for the same price
I use antec formula 7, $14 and lasts for 5 applications, makes about a 2-4c difference in prime95 compared to to pre-applied generic stuff. To me it seems to make a difference more under load than idle. Only reason I use high end stuff is because I try to keep my computer as quiet as possible because it doubles as an htpc but just for gaming I would use pretty much anything that comes with the heat sink you plan on using.
edit - the formula 7 is $5.99 at bestbuy right now so for that much I would use it even for the possible 2c difference.
edit - the formula 7 is $5.99 at bestbuy right now so for that much I would use it even for the possible 2c difference.
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Tweed, just don't bother buying thermal paste, the money you spend on it could be going towards something that will actually make a difference, like a graphics card or CPU, or even a better cooler
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Skylake does NOT cool well, and inside the CPU, uses cheap thermal paste rather than soldering as in other chips.
See: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9505/skylake-cpu-package-analysis
Skylake cools very well because of teh 14nn, and people have received solid great overclocks on such "low" end coolers like teh cooler master hyper 212 evo
and note the overclocking used to note teh the poor TIM choice in Skylake was way well BEYOND max recommended voltage, even for overclock, so ofc at those enthusiast levels it matters,
fact is, on "safe" voltages, Skylake overclocks and cools well, compared to previous gen CPUs
getting 4.6ghz or more on small air coolers is DEFINITELY equal to "cools well on air"
just dont be daft and go up to crazy voltages.. 1.35 recommended, 1.4 considered safe, anything above 1.45 is just daft,
the enthusiast in that quote was on 1.48, no wonder you start considering replacing TIM at those enthusiast lvls
Skylake cools great, and better than previous CPUs, which should be logic since even if it uses poor TIM, it uses the same poor TIM that haswell did (minus Devils canyon) but its 14nm, heatspreader larger, so cools easier, with same poor TIM
(yes it doesnt cool "optimally", like it would if soldered like old days, but we know Intel dont want "enthusiast" lvls of OC on certain chips anymore, just "casual" consumer OC, so the consumer feels "great", but still remains encouraged to buy new CPU earlier than previous)
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Fair enough, when I said it didn't cool well, I essentially meant it didn't cool optimally or as well as it could if intel hadn't gone the cheapo route.
I'm looking at getting (some level of) skylake myself though, they are fine chips, just wish they had spent the extra few cents per unit to maximize heat transfer.
I'm looking at getting (some level of) skylake myself though, they are fine chips, just wish they had spent the extra few cents per unit to maximize heat transfer.
couldnt agree with you more, one thing is stopping using the fluxless solder, which is bad enough, cheap move by Intel..
but that they couldnt even pony up to use the slightly better TIM on Skylake K as on Devils Canyon is even worse and sorta mind boggling, that Intel would cheap out that bad
guess we just have to accept that the days of extreme overclocking might be behind us, or atleast not expect Intel to be too helpful on that part
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