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Hi i was wondering when it comes to thermal paste does it matter what type you use i have heard that arctic silver works best from silicon and i am wondering does it mater as long as you have thermal paste of some type on the CPU's thank you for reading this and i am much appreciated if you could give me the answers i need?!
 

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Yes, type matters - don't buy cheap stuff like Cooler Master paste, it's GARBAGE. Arctic Silver isn't the best, but it's definitely better than silicon based paste. And you NEED to have a paste on your processor, heat wouldn't transfer otherwise. I recommend MX-4 - great performer, affordable price of 10$, no metals so it's not conductive.
 

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HEY, dont bash coolermaster, its keeping my 3570k @ 4.5ghz stable! >:)
 
Arctic Silver 5 is the standard, and Arctic Cooling MX-4 is about the best it gets without getting into the liquid metals. (Which are highly conductive and liquid, making it extremely easy to short out your motherboard.)

EDIT: Haha, I guess I kinda got beat twice, there. Yeah, buy MX-4. It's worth it.
 

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Wat? Coolermaster make one of the best thermal pastes I've ever used. I want to see where you seemed to get the idea that it sucked.

Anyway, going back, AS5 was the best, but today it really isn't. Tuniq TX-4 is what I use currently, and its great. On their website, which I'm not sure if its biased or not, it beats AS5 according to their charts.
 

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Well i got some paste and it's got 10% silver in it would that be good enough cause i'm using it on two quad core xeons on my server board and i just wanted to know would it make the heat transfer good and keep the temps down too minimum and operation temps?
 

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Yes, you will be fine, just dont over or under apply.