Essa pasta não tem fama lá fora à toa, foi a primeira vez que utilizei e fiquei impressionado com os resultados. There is an eleven year gap between the MX-4 and MX-5, and the promotion of the Noctua NT-H1 to the more efficient NT-H2 took even two years longer.

In addition to the ARCTIC MX-5 thermal paste I am reviewing today, inside the box was also the ARCTIC BioniX P120 A-RGB and P12 PWM PST RGB 0dB fans to be covered by my colleague Jadon Lee. In this test, my computer was sitting on the basement floor, resulting in much colder air being drawn in. I always use Noctua even though I dont use Noctua coolers I do use only Noctua fans, it may not be fancy or as sexy as the various thermal blah blah etc but it works and it works consistently and my temps are always fine and splitting apart for maintenance or swops is never an issue, I may lose a deg or 2 ( or gain lol) but hell who cares.This would allow completion of the thermal cycle with hot and cold runs giving the thermal paste some time to reach its near-optimal condition.

The main reason could perhaps be a different, easier manufacturing process for Arctic, and it can’t be ruled out that there wasn’t much interest in the MX-5 because it had profiled itself as a “risky” paste, whereas there are plenty of “reliable” ones on the market that hold up well. It'll be interesting to see if Arctic starts including the MX-6 paste with their existing or upcoming coolers, though I think they'll stick to what they currently use since the MX-5 wasn't included with coolers AFAIK. Me llegó rápido ya se la puse ala ps4 lo mejor es que no es conductora así que puedes poner buena cantidad sin preocuparte a qué se derrame como otras que si los son en la reviews de expertos sale muy bien está . Ideally, we would have wanted to do 3 tests as a minimum for a single thermal paste and showing the average of these three runs but due to my poor health condition, one test result is shown.I actually have been busy with other things but yes i have noticed the issues when i took apart system. Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5 32GB 6000MHz C30 | Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Samsung 990 PRO 1TB with heatsink | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 | Seasonic Focus GX-850 | Lian Li Lanccool III | Mousepad: Skypad 3. Viscosity and Application: While MX-6 has a higher viscosity compared to MX-4, it has properties that prevent leakage due to the Pump-Out Effect.

Among the notable contenders in this realm are Arctic’s thermal paste offerings: MX-4, MX-5, and MX-6. I use Thermalright TFX and TF-8 so don't have any MX-5, but I've used it a few times finding it a good product.According to Arctic's statement, there are faulty batches of MX-5 thermal compound that made it out of production. There were no recorded differences between the ARCTIC and Noctua thermal pastes, because the truth is the processor in its idle state is not generating a whole lot of heat in the first place. It also helps in keeping the CPU or GPU temperatures low, improving overall system performance and stability. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

While all this is great on paper, some batches of the Arctic MX-5 showed irregularities in durability, premature hardening, and overall consistency.Room temp between the grizzly and mx4 test has been 24-28c, the MX-5 still performed the same at a room temp of 30c during the heatwave! Arctic started avoiding it already with Arctic MX-5 paste and retroactively deleted this parameter (apparently for the sake of uniformity) even with older pastes, although it was once publicly available. It's so thick that unless your cooler has a very high clamping force it won't actually spread evenly from pressure from the traditional pea / rice / center dot method, and putting too much on can actually create a "layer" of TIM that reduces optimal heat transfer. Answer: Arctic MX-5 faced issues with irregular durability, premature hardening, and overall consistency in some batches, leading to its discontinuation. This ensures consistent performance over time and reduces the risk of the thermal paste “pumping out” from between the CPU/GPU and heatsink due to heat cycling.