Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (2 Pack)

Lowered the temperature of the CPU by 20°C it's freaking awesome 😎😎😎

Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound is pretty much my "go to" thermal paste when building a new PC (or tweaking the occasional Raspberry Pi and other processors for overclocking, etc). There are more expensive thermal compounds and I have used them. However, I've seen no gains when using the more expensive brands. Perhaps I'm just not running my processors hot enough. :-) In any case, in my opinion, if you get Arctic Silver 5, you won't go unhappy. Have fun with your builds!

I'm using it in my no-dry-ice TEC Peltier electronically cooled "Nuclear Cloud Chamber".How do I apply the thermal paste? If your application is round use the pea-shaped blob in the center and smoosh. If it's a square/rectangle use a spreader. On test after test on YouTube it really didn't matter.In my application my cold plate is plexiglas and I can SEE the thermal paste from the top-side of the chamber and had to use the spreader method (old credit card) to get it looking nice. Smoosh method and "hope" it's everywhere (it won't be) or spreader and "know" it's everywhere. LOL!This is underneath two Peltier cooler tiles > plexiglas cold plate >rubber gasket and a big old wine goblet. Most of the aforementioned pieces are coupled with thermal paste. Power comes from an ATX computer power supply I made into a bench top power unit a while ago. All of this is going on my 'Science & Optics' Blogger...for no real reason other than I have more fun doing this than shoveling snow or mowing the lawn (winters suck in Detroit).The wine goblet is filled with 99% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol which gets supercooled and turns into a fog in the the glass goblet. Then you can see alpha, beta, gamma and muon tracks zipping through the fog: visible radiation! I have various radioactive sample sources, plus if you put no radioactive stuff in the chamber every 3 or 3 minutes you'll see a particle zing through and that'll be the result of a cosmic ray interaction: a muon!My other nuclear cloud chamber is MUCH simpler: an upside down aquarium resting on a metal plate that sits on top of a block of dry ice. I want to eventually bring this into work (I'm a librarian) and while the radioactive stuff is safe (unless you swallow it) the dry ice is just annoying to deal with after the awesomeness of it gets old: it's cold, melts (well, sublimates), will explode any container it gets sealed it, burns, little kids want to touch it...all not so great for a science demonstration. Plus the only place that sells it is the Walmart that's like 15 minute drive. With this design I just plug it into a wall outlet and dump in a little rubbing alcohol: bam! Coldness.PS. These are both VERY, VERY TINY!!! Smaller than my pinkie finger.Michael LoguszScience & Optics

I have used this thermal paste for the last 13 years and have never been disappointed. Whether the cpu was water or air cooled I had fantastic results in heat transfer. Paste is easy to apply as long as you understand how to do it properly. This stuff also holds up well over time as I had it in one computer for 7 years before removing the cpu and the paste was in great shape. Definitely get some Arctic Silver 5.

I clean up and flip/collect laptops, and this is what I replace ancient, crusted paste with. I have not compared thermals with other paste, although this stuff keeps laptops well under 80 C even when under max load so far. It's also a lot of paste. Ive pasted 4 or 5 CPUs and an 880m GPU, and I'm maybe halfway through the first tube. And I lean towards a little too much paste, so this will last quite a while.

Used it on an MSI gaming laptop I had for two years, when I opened it up all the factory paste was dried up. Used some of this and worked like charm, am able to enjoy my games with no issues and my temperatures are stable and cause no problems.

There are other thermal compounds and other compounds from Arctic but this is the generic stuff that you NEED when you are mounting power transistors or 100W LED emitters and they need to have thermal paste, or they self-destruct. A very little bit goes a long way, just put a dab down, then press the component on it and rotate it around to spread the paste as thinly as possible. More is not better--the layer must be THIN.Sworn by it for years, and all the technical reviews say the same thing. Arctic Silver is #1!

There is nothing negative to say. It was as advertised, it did exactly as it stated, they were spot on. I reserve 5/5 ratings for products that go above and beyond. For me, 4/5 is a perfect score.The only complaint I had is I could have swore those tubes were a little bigger ;) Don't be fooled the image you see on Amazon is about 3x bigger than what you actually get.