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Thermal paste on a budget, the $6 tube beat the $25 one
Tbh I always figured expensive thermal paste had to be better, but last month I rebuilt an old gaming rig on a tight budget. I grabbed a $6 tube of generic paste from a local electronics store in Austin and compared it to the $25 Arctic stuff I had leftover. After a week of gaming, the temps were within 2 degrees Celsius, so the cheap tube won for me. Has anyone else tried mixing budget paste with a used CPU cooler and seen similar results?
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rowan66622d ago
I used to drop $25 on Arctic MX-4 every single time, figured cheap stuff was trash. Then I did a build with a $5 tube from Micro Center and a stock cooler I pulled off an old Ryzen, temps were basically the same. Wild how much of that price is just the brand name.
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