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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.

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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.

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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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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    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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