thermal compounds
 

Hi all
I am looking for recommendations about thermal compounds. Going to be building a high end system and I am not going to cheap out... well not to much. i have heard things about IC diamond and Artic silver but other companies compounds also seem good enough and just cant seem to make up my mind:hmmm:. please help me
I will post specs tomorrow of what is going inside if that will help.

Hi,

Here is a thread, on another forum, giving an overview of Thermal pastes on the market (it's a few months old)

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=71658

I personally use Arctic Silver 5 and have done for years - some say it's a little dated and there is better out there, but it's cheap and highly efficient in my opinion (I'm an IT engineer in RL, if that counts for anything!! :D) and it keeps my i5 2500K nice and cool!

I also am in IT and always use arctic silver.

Since you said your not going "cheap" - are you doing air or water cooling?

Water cooling, a Corsair H80. though now i am thinking about doing the water cooling by hand and not getting a prebuilt model

So here are the build specs I promised
Case HAF XM
CPU:i7 3930k
MB: Gigabyte X79 UD3
PSU: thermaltake TPG 1050W
RAM: 4x G.skill Ripsaws2 4GB
SPU:Creative Soundblaster Recon3d
HDD: 2x Seagate Desktop 2 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6 GB with NCQ 64 MB Cache 3.5 Inch (ST2000DX001)
GPU: EVGA GTX 670 ftw+

I have been using CoolLabs Liquid Pro for years with great result,s but it is a compount that I can't really recommend because it is a pain to work with and has to be kept out of contact with aluminium.