[SOLVED] Can cheap thermal paste do its job?

[PhilRed]

I bought a CPU cooler and was looking for a thermal paste, been searching for thermal pastes locally and in online shops here in my country (Philippines)and all i can see is this product called HY510 (link below). Even for its price, people said it does its job but I don't know what rig they are rocking. I'm currently using the intel stock cooler for my cpu and its currently its kinda doing its job at 40c idle. I bought the CPU cooler for the main reason that my pc would look good and atleast lower some temperature. All i do is mostly play esports games and some GPU intensive heavy and triple A games.

Cooling Thermal Paste HY510 For CPU Heat Sink for CPU/GPU Chipset Cooling | Shopee Philippines

I bought the DeepCool AK400 from my friend who used it for only a week and said that it doesn't look good on his pc and the pre-applied thermal paste is already gone.

Specs below if your wondering.

TLDR; Need CPU thermal paste immediately and all i can find is this HY510 Thermal paste in my area.

 

[Lafong]

If I understand you correctly.....you don't have a choice.

If that is true, all you can do is use it.

I assume you cannot postpone the build until you have a known better paste.

Could you get some other paste in a month? Never?

Usually...best to worst is only a few degrees.

 

[PhilRed]

If I understand you correctly.....you don't have a choice.

If that is true, all you can do is use it.

I assume you cannot postpone the build until you have a known better paste.

Could you get some other paste in a month? Never?

Usually...best to worst is only a few degrees.

Im not really concerned at the CPU temps and because its already running at the desired temperature in idle and workload. I just need to know if the thermal paste does its job at transferring heat into the cooler even if the temps are the same. A little decrease in temp would be awesome too! Thank you for your comment!

 

[Lafong]

Im not really concerned at the CPU temps...................I just need to know if the thermal paste does its job at transferring heat into the cooler even if the temps are the same.

Can you re-write that? I'm not following.

If temps are satisfactory, do you still have a problem with the paste?

 

[dwd999]

I bought a CPU cooler and was looking for a thermal paste, been searching for thermal pastes locally and in online shops here in my country (Philippines)and all i can see is this product called HY510 (link below). Even for its price, people said it does its job but I don't know what rig they are rocking. I'm currently using the intel stock cooler for my cpu and its currently its kinda doing its job at 40c idle. I bought the CPU cooler for the main reason that my pc would look good and atleast lower some temperature. All i do is mostly play esports games and some GPU intensive heavy and triple A games.

Cooling Thermal Paste HY510 For CPU Heat Sink for CPU/GPU Chipset Cooling | Shopee Philippines

I bought the DeepCool AK400 from my friend who used it for only a week and said that it doesn't look good on his pc and the pre-applied thermal paste is already gone.

Specs below if your wondering.

TLDR; Need CPU thermal paste immediately and all i can find is this HY510 Thermal paste in my area.

You could try something like this from Amazon; click on the address option box to ship to the Philippines:

https://www.amazon.com/Thermal-Grizzly-Performance-Processors-Computers/dp/B08R6QG2CQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QBOS48XXKGLY&keywords=cryonaut+extreme&qid=1655607254&sprefix=cryonaut+extreme,aps,136&sr=8-1&th=1

Not sure how much money that represents in Philippines; perhaps you could use it in the future.

 

[Karadjgne]

Difference on average between the better pastes and the worst is only about 5°C. So that's not an issue.

Difference on average between the better pastes and worst concerning quality is the spread under heat and pressure, the worst pastes are generally a pain to spread, or are too tacky and won't spread so readily with a blob method etc. Getting a nice, thin, even smear across the cpu is all that's required.

Difference on average between the better pastes and the worst is thermal conductivity, meaning it's advisable to have a better paste for better transfer when using a high wattage cpu so the paste acts less like an insulator, chances of excessive Hotspots are lower etc.

So yes, cheap or crappy paste can be used, and it will work just not as effectively as a good paste. Even toothpaste works, for a couple of heat cycles until it dries out.

The quality of contact, spread of paste and even-ness of pressure on the IHS is generally more important than the paste itself.

 

[punkncat]

What is ambient where you are?

40C on idle doesn't sound too bad considering what temps in the Philippines are. I am seeing 92F at this very moment (outside), so to have a system running roughly 20F above that isn't particularly an issue.

 

[MeanMachine41]

I bought a CPU cooler and was looking for a thermal paste, been searching for thermal pastes locally and in online shops here in my country (Philippines)and all i can see is this product called HY510 (link below). Even for its price, people said it does its job but I don't know what rig they are rocking. I'm currently using the intel stock cooler for my cpu and its currently its kinda doing its job at 40c idle. I bought the CPU cooler for the main reason that my pc would look good and atleast lower some temperature. All i do is mostly play esports games and some GPU intensive heavy and triple A games.

Cooling Thermal Paste HY510 For CPU Heat Sink for CPU/GPU Chipset Cooling | Shopee Philippines

I bought the DeepCool AK400 from my friend who used it for only a week and said that it doesn't look good on his pc and the pre-applied thermal paste is already gone.

Specs below if your wondering.

TLDR; Need CPU thermal paste immediately and all i can find is this HY510 Thermal paste in my area.

The efficiency of thermal paste is measured as W/km (watts per square meter of the surface area),
A good thermal paste will measure around 8W/km.

AS5, MX4 and Thermal Grizzly kryanaut have excellent conductivity whereas HY510 has a thermal conductive index of 1.93 W/km and considered crap.