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I have had this tube of MX4 since 2013, it's served me well, countless rebuilds of my computers, CPUs and GPUs alike, home servers, gaming computers, laptops, games consoles, pi4, I used this on everything. You served me well.

8th June 2013 to 4th November 2023.

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[–] Blackout@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's incredible. I typically only get 1 use out of mine.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Far out, how much you putting on? As far as I’m aware, doing a cross over the processor is all that’s needed

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it's an animation but the fact that it starts to liquefy kinda weirds me out a bit.

[–] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, so that's why i cooked that one cpu. I applied it wrong!

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 tube per processor but sometimes I get hungry and need 2.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Hey I respect it man.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even that's a bit much. For normal sized CPUs, a dot in the middle a tad smaller than a pea is enough to cover the IHS.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Idk the tube of arcticnaut I have came with a little wide applicator that I used to just kinda paint the whole thing in the thinnest layer possible with the coherence of the paste being what it is. Squished out a bit over the sides but didn't get around the socket or anything.

Idk what Thermal Grizzly Cryonaut comes with but dammit if it doesn't do the job. I've seen 70C on my CPU once and that was during a video render, a game has never broken that barrier. It's Ryzen Master Auto O/C'd so idk what it would be getting without that boost in performance.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

What are you installing, a threadripper every time?

You don't need much at all, just barely enough to cover the IHS in the thinnest possible layer.