A Top Tier Thermal Paste - Arctic's MX-6 Arrives!

Sorry I've been out of the game for a while. Is this the same company that makes Arctic Silver?

What about those CPU/GPU graphite thermal pads? Lately, I've thought how water cooling maintenance would be much easier with that solution, versus unmounting up to two blocks, just to replace paste that inevitably wears out.

this company is really awesome, i once asked them about my AIO liquid flow, they contacted me with the engineer and explained everything to me ❤

Can we see a vs NH-2?

will this new product get me laid?

MX-6 vs NH-2 vs Kryonaut?

Really like arctic products,cheap but great performance

I have enjoyed the video, Thanks!

Miss your videos dude

Check Pactum PT-4 from silentiumpc. For me it was last year discovery after years with MX-4 ;) MX-6 looks nice but only ~8 W/mm2 is a bit low nowdays :/

My thoughts .. between Arctic's MX-4 and MX-6 if accurate (<1°C) then I'd probably choose MX-4. Here's why .. long-term I had an LGA 2011 PC that used MX-4 and its thermal behavior even over a decade (10 years) never changed and the TIM did not dry out or crack. That's frankly more important to me than 1° C. Who knows the behavior of the MX-6 over a long period of time.

My build in progress (i9-13900K and RTX 4090 with EK blocks) I'm probably switching to Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut even though I ordered MX-6.

I think more testing needs to be done and hopefully before my build start date. I have a burn-in period until everything arrives from EK at the end of this month to test and compare.

Sorry, I only use thermal pasta

This vs kryonaught I need to know lol.

i will wait to see others use it, mx-5 is so bad. right now i use tfx, only concern about it sticky and hard to spread

Lovely, I used the MX5 that came with the Arctic water cooler, no idea the generation wouldn't last very long...

Based on your tests the MX5 wasnt even any better than MX4

You need to do a test Arctic's MX-6 vs Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme 😉

It’s sad how much thermal paste gets me hyped.

ill stick with MX4

I actually didn’t know the separation was an issue with the MX5.

Is thermalright ss135 good for 5900x?

You can use log scale to better show small differences. Other than that - this was short & sweet mini-review.

Any thoughts on the ASUS AP201 case? I think that case is better for compatibility than the nr200max

You can fit 3 HDD, 1 sata ssd, full atx psu, matx, 4 slot GPU, etc

Thanks for the review. I'm a long time user of the MX2. Arctic makes cheap and good products. The support is also good in my opinion. The Air Coolers, Fans and AIOs are good and cheap. If something is not ideal with their products, they do something about it.
I wish they make custom watercooling solutions in the future. The could beat the expensive opponents in that area I guess. It's every time price/performance and that is what they are good at.

It's awesome to see the data, thanks!!

Finally one that I feel comfortable using for my 1080Ti and I7 8700k. Hope it drops my temps decently.

Tried this out with the 5800x3D system I built with a Fuma 2 revB, it's pretty good but still almost nothing can tame that cpu. on the cooling wipe side, I rather use the Noctua one. the smell is understated here, it's EXTREMELY strong, it's not bad smell, it's just very acidic lemon-ery that doesn't go away for awhile, I choked when I used the wipes. make sure you dispose of the used ones ASAP.

This is more important than Jesus's second coming!

Great review! Thank you.

I hoped to see it be less sticky. I love my kryonaut but it always pulls my CPU out with the cooler. A little sad to see the MX6 do the same. Are there any tips for keeping the CPU in the socket I don't know about ?

MX-6 is worse or the same than MX-4 and 5.

The thinner the thermal paste layer, the better the thermal paste. And this is all marketing, wait for the MX-10. 🤣

How’s it compare to the kryonaut extreme

i read somewehre mx-6 fixes the pump out effect, heard anything?

i'm disappointed with the MX-5. Bought a tube a few months back and only last weekend had the time to clean my pc. when i want to apply the MX-5, all i got was thick goo like old bubblegum. had to make a run to the nearest pc shop, and they only got cooler master paste.

is it still non conductive?

Love the content as always man, any thoughts on the Fractal Ridge? All the best.

Compare thermal paste with Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change thermopad.

Thanks.

Not bad. Although pricey I ran a few tests with mx4,5,6, and thermal grizzly kryonaut extreme. My temps with the kryo ranged 7-10c cooler on Cinebench R21. I saw 2c-3c diff MX6 v MX4 and a 1-2c mx4 v mx5. Testing was done with an i7-13700k and arctic liquid freezer ii 360 rev7

I was thrilled to see you did a review of this when I was searching (you're highly trusted in my books). What I'm wondering is the longevity of an application of MX-6. MX-4 seemed almost unchanged even a year later when I've used it on a few different machines. Wondering if MX-6 might be similar, or if it degrades or separates over time / thermal cycles.

just bought a 20g mx4 and 8g mx6 each for 20 cad. easily the best value paste here in canada

The best thermal paste is Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme!

This stuff is amazing my ps4 fat is more quiet when playing a game

It's been 10 months, how would you rate its stability over this period of time?

This paste is horrible. Its so hard and my temperatures so high. I returnet to mx4.
When i used mx6 that is not soft, its hard to do a plane surface and when i take out my aio that was horrible because ir dont cover perfectly the surface and its like a deformed mass. I sae the comments in amazon but now i know thats true.... Mx54 will continue in my pc again

Artic 4 still king. Most computers are never running at peak speed, so the one or two degree c at higher loads are completely irrelevant.

mx6 is so painful to spread it on cpu specially on am5