[SOLVED] Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut shelf life?

[_danielpwils01]

I'm repasting my GPU and had some thermal paste on hand, what is the shelf life of Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut?

I bought a tube of Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut exactly two years ago to repaste my old RX 480. I then put the cap back on the tube, placed it in the bag, and it's sat there since. Now I'm looking to repaste my RX 5700, am I able to use the same paste? Will temperatures be affected at all? Any information or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

So long as the tube of paste was sitting in a controlled environment, the shelf life of the paste can be as long as 5 years. I've been using a tube of Arctic MX-2 since 2010 and the temps haven't gotten bad, nor has the thermal paste split into it's respective constituents in spite of multiple applications and being in storage across the past decade. If I noticed temps going bad, I'd have noticed it sooner than later and would've thrown the tube of paste I've been working with.

In short, you're fine. Just keep an eye on the temps to be very sure that the paste isn't going...bad. Please note that thermal paste have a break in period for the higher end stuff so don't be surprised to see temps be a little high or flatline and then the temps drop.