Best paste?

[mojothehut]

Hey all
I'm wondering what an excellent thermal paste to use with
my Noctua NH-D15s and my intel 8700k cpu would be?
The NH-D15s came with Noctua's own paste. Is it worth using or
are there better goops on the market?
I don't mind cost all that much

Thanks!

 

[gradoman]

One of the best pastes from what I've seen.

So you've got the pinnacle of air coolers, plus one of the best pastes -- no need to go spend more money.

Unless you want to delid and go with liquid metal under the IHS and put a 360mm AIO on duty.

 

[mojothehut]

Ah cool thanks, I'll use the supplied goop from Noctua =)

 

[BonzaiDuck]

One of the best pastes from what I've seen.

So you've got the pinnacle of air coolers, plus one of the best pastes -- no need to go spend more money.

Unless you want to delid and go with liquid metal under the IHS and put a 360mm AIO on duty.

He can do that -- as he says in the subsequent response to your post.

I spent a lot of time beginning some 7 years ago choosing my preferred paste -- which is either DIY nano-diamond in silicon grease or IC Diamond, which I'd just as soon buy as needed. IC Diamond falls about 2C short of liquid metal CLU or Indigo Xtreme metal pads in benchmarks on a common testbed > 100W thermal power.

I wouldn't know how the Noctua formulation compares. I really doubt it is better than ICD. I just don't know how much worse it might be -- but we're talking about a few C degrees either way.

 

[Glo.]

NT-H1 is one of best thermal pastes out there.

However, let me give you some perspective. Lately I have changed MacBook Pro thermal Paste(non-retina, mid 2012 with Core i7 3615 QM, and GT 650M). The temperatures dropped by 20 degrees celsius. I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. By far, the best Thermal Paste out there. Better is only liquid Metal.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

NT-H1 is one of best thermal pastes out there.

However, let me give you some perspective. Lately I have changed MacBook Pro thermal Paste(non-retina, mid 2012 with Core i7 3615 QM, and GT 650M). The temperatures dropped by 20 degrees celsius. I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. By far, the best Thermal Paste out there. Better is only liquid Metal.

Yes, that's right, and I recall some earlier information. Grizzly Kryonaut is supposed to be one of the best so far. I just don't know how much better it would be than ICD/nano-diamond. They would have to be so close that I should only try it out when I have a new opportunity, so that I don't create an unnecessary project for myself across five iterations in the household LAN.