Kingpin Cooling KPx High Performance Thermal Compound 10G

The most nerve-wracking thing about repasting is taking the cold plate off. Always nervous about breaking something, and indeed, I have broken a CPU socket in the past by taking off an old air cooler, and ripping the CPU out of the socket in the process because the old paste was stuck too good. I repasted my GPU using this stuff and for some unrelated problem I had to take it apart again, and what struck me about this was how easy it was to separate the cold plate from the chip after applying this stuff. On top of that, it was super easy to spread onto the chip manually; I never want to use a thicker paste again! And most importantly, after pasting it up again and firing up Heaven benchmark, my graphics card was running at least 5 degrees cooler at 95-100% load vs. the stock paste that was already in the card. I have also torn down and repasted my old PS3 and PS4 as well as my friends' graphics card with this stuff, everything feels a lot cooler than before. Conclusion: When we're talking about the raw performance and longevity of much more expensive components within a system, it's super important to not cheap out on things like this. It's a few more bucks, but it's worth it in the long run.

Very pricey and I think there are a lot with similar performance. I like the color.

I've used this stuff religiously. First off, don't believe the BS about this paste not having a good lifespan on CPUs and GPUs. That's simply not true. It keeps its viscosity just fine and I've never seen it harden even after 7 years of normal use. Where these YouTubers get that, "you have to replace it every 2-3 years," nonsense is beyond me. I've used a lot of thermal paste the past 20 years. Ever since Intel introduced the Pentium 4 and I really had to start learning about it, frankly. Not to get on a tangent but nothing wakes you up to the realities of building computers than when you learn there are even electrically conductive thermal solutions in a era when they literally did not tell you that. RIP CPUs of the early 00s. Anyway, back to the review. KPx spreads easy and works great at give you superior cooling especially for the price. Nearly within margin of error to Thermal Grizzly's best, who genuinely makes some of the absolute greatest thermal pastes, putties, liquid metals, and phase sheets around. But they're also some of the most expensive, unfortunately. So if you're looking for a comparable solution at a better price that will work well for years you can't go wrong with this. There's a reason they have vending machines in Taiwan full of this stuff. Other recommendations are: Artics MX-6, Corsair's TM50 and XTM70 (maybe TM30 never used it personally), Noctua NT-H2, Thermal Grizzly Duronaut and Phase Sheet PTM, and even Thermalright TFX.

Excellent product, worth buying

Thermal paste was hard and dryed up, not usable disappointed in this product