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Pros & Cons
Pros
Mx-4 is the best thermal paste those who can't afford super high end stuff, are scared of liquid metals, got * over with fake thermal grizzly, or hate noctua products. It's to keep your processor from overheating.
Cleaned out, removed old dried paste with alcohol, and used the arctic mx-4 before reinstalling. Swapped out a i5 cpu for a i7-3770k and replaced the old paste with mx- 4. Amazon has replacement pads for less than $10 though mines were fine. Once clea... Read More
Cons
Arctic makes premium thermal paste, but mx-4 is not for laptop cpus. It is too thin and will pump out.
Highlights
Quality
Decided to re thermal paste my cpu with the aio cooler after 7 years of almost daily use.
This definitely helped with cooling it down a lot, even with the fact it had to fight cooling a laptop that had clogged fans an... Read More
To apply the paste you will have to tear down entire ps4 pretty much so might as well slaps the chips with pads and don't over ... Read More
Previously it was 95c at 6500rpm with the oem paste.
Packaging/appearance
I ended up only needing fraction of it due to my new cpu fan having thermal paste on it, but easy to apply, and easy to open, n... Read More
Once cleaned put pads on the mem chips and silence ever since.
Competitiveness
Anyways, this is the best thermal paste for: those who can't afford super high end stuff, are scared of liquid metals, got scre... Read More
Hindsight: i'm using a spudger for a spatula next time and frosting those babies like cupcakes for kinder.
Repasted my amd ryzen 5 2600 after doing a motherboard upgrade.
Always ran hot on my amd 2700x.
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thermal, old, easy, spread and down. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 60077.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 76.9% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 2,248 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Average cpu temps dropped a significant 15°c with a 25 idle improvement
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Cleaned up my gpu had some old white crusty thermal paste on there
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
To apply the paste you will have to tear down entire ps4 pretty much so might as well slaps the chips with pads and dont over do it with the paste
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And now why im going to replace the thermal paste so often within a week of application i dont know how long arctic mx4 takes to fully 34cure34 my cpugpu running temps were down 10c
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And the fans dont run all the time anymore so my battery life is way up too
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Btw if youre curious i used a line of paste on the gpu which has a rectangular surface and the five dots method like a toddler
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I thought that the mx4 might set up kinda fast but it really didnt
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It was still wet enough when i mounted the heat sink that i could have put a little more on and spread it around taking my sweet time and possibly getting a better contact
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