• Reviews around compound (4.44 of 5)

    ARCTIC MX-4 - Thermal Compound Paste, Carbon Based High Performance, Heatsink Paste, Thermal Compound CPU for All Coolers, Thermal Interface Material - 4 Grams

    • Best Thermal Compound Paste
    • Great thermal compound.
    • Great compound, used it to repair a few overheating PS3's, make sure to clean off old compound with at least 91% rubbing alcohol before applying
    • Best thermal compound.
    • The Arctic MX-4 compound worked great on my grandson's laptop when I replaced the motherboard
    • Once I applied the thermal pads I cleaned off the old thermal compound on the heatsink and GPU and then liberally applied MX-4 to the GPU
    • This is by far the absolute best thermal compound i have ever used, it keeps my cpu coolest out of the few compounds ive tried, including, noctua
    • Some of the other good popular compounds deteriorate with age and will need to be replaced after 3 years or so
    • Great thermal compound!
    • Thermal Compound works great and I replaced it with ARCTIC 5.
    • One of the best thermal compounds ever created!
    • The Arctic MX-4 Thermal Compound is the best for dissipating heat from the CPU
    • This compound is a little thinner, but it works exactly as advertised, maybe better.
    • Great thermal compound, non-conductive, and spreads easy.
    • To my surprise, this turned out to be a very good compound paste
    • Good thermal compound!
    • I replaced the compound in my computer and it lowered temperatures by about 8°CI also replaced the compound in an old computer, an old video card, and my original Xbox, and it works very well
    • I did some research to find the best but cheapest thermal compound and this is the one I decided on
    • I think I paid about $14 w/shipping... does it work any better than compound that came with my Zalman CPU cooler
    • This is the best non-conductive thermal compound around
    • Great thermal compound to use if your laptop is starting to overheat
    • Cheap good thermal compound.
    • One of the easiest compounds I've used yet, and my CPU idles below 30C and peaks in the 70C range.
    • Excellent Compound, about a 4 degree C difference in temps compared to others we have used.
    • very good Thermal Compound
    • This is the most amazing thermal compound ever made, i have used many diffrent kinds, but this stuff is wonderful, my system never passes 78
    • It's a nice thermal compound
    • Great Compound
    • Both compounds are good, though I think this applicator is better than the Artic Silver 5
    • The Artic MX-4 is by far the best thermal compound I have used
    • As all the other people said, this is the best compound out there
    • My new favorite thermal compound.
    • This is some of the best thermal compound for the money.
    • At some point, the thermal compound must have failed because my pc started crashing after the cpu reached 120 degC. This thermal compound is definitely better than that one
    • one of the best thermal compounds around noctua's compound is just as good tho.
    • Excellent thermal compound
    • This was the reason why I chose MX-4 over some of the other popular thermal compounds out there
    • Easily the best thermal compound I've used yet
    • Good thermal compound that reduced both my idle and load temperatures by about 5C.
    • This thermal compound is fantastic, shipping was short
    • because even if u do get overage, it wouldnt mess anything up anyways, so tyt for this amazing thermal compound, i will never use anything else ever, TY, Rose
    • What a difference a good thermal compound paste makes!
    • This is by far my favorite thermal compound
    • The best compound for me because I have to test processors quite frequently and there is no break-in wait time.
    • Best thermal compound in the business
    • I highly recommend Arctic MX-4 Carbon-Based Thermal Compound to anyone with a need for a thermal compound that works really well at cooling with minimal concern for application errors.
    • I definitely recommend this thermal compound to anyone that wants to keep their CPU for as long as possible or overclock it to its extreme.
    • Used on my 4670k, great quality compound
    • The ARCTIC MX-4 is a metal-free and non-electrically conductive compound that eliminates the risks of short circuit and provides protection to your computer
    • Outstanding compound paste
    • At some point, the thermal compound must have failed because my pc started crashing after the cpu reached 120 degC. This thermal compound is definitely better than that one
    • Great thermal compound.
    • I used 91% isopropyl and q-tips to clean the old dried up thermal compound off all surfaces of the processors and my heatsinks before I applied the MX-4.
    • Got this after weighing the price, easy of use, and effectivity of the top thermal compounds out there
    • This MX4 thermal compound was great.
    • This was the best thermal compound I could find
    • The CPU came with sufficient thermal compound to do the job. as well as a CPU cooler.
    • You get enough compound to do dozens of CPUs.
    • Great thermal compound.
    • Application of the paste was much easier than Arctic Silver, this compound flows easier making it easy to push out and spread
    • Cheap good thermal compound.
    • Great thermal compound to use if your laptop is starting to overheat
    • Definitely a top 10 compound
    • I did some research to find the best but cheapest thermal compound and this is the one I decided on
    • yes there are probably 'better' compounds that may benchmark slightly better, but in the real world, this will work just as well as any other, as long as you install and apply it properly
    • Good thermal compound
    • Probably the best thermal compound that money can buy.
    • This compound works exactly as it should.
    • When I disassembled the heat sink the factory thermal compound was dried up, after I applied
    • I highly recommend this compound for any PC builder, no burn-time, non-conductive, and easy to apply
    • This thermal compound is much better then the one included with the Hyper 212 Evo, which is extremely thick and hard and almost impossible to get a proper spread on (although it works great for tinting the base of of heatsink (which seems to make a noticable difference in heatsinks with direct contact heat pipes.)No problems with this compound, and for the price you get a large amount, I actually used it twice on the above heatsink, the first time was a trial to test it's spread
    • Obviously there are much more effective compounds out there, but unless you're going crazy overclocking and willing to put up with the harder to apply ones, this is a great compound to get
    • I do plan to get a better compound in the future to see if I can hit the mid 10
    • This is a good compound perhaps not the best out there, but it keeps my i7 8700k at 4.8ghz around 25c idle with a corsair 360 radiator
    • Thermal compound worked a specified.
    • EVGA thermal compound sucks.
    • With the cleaning and the fresh thermal compound (was stock before), my temperatures have never risen above 72% of maximum operating temperature even under heavy load.
    • Great compound, I’m overclocked to 4600MHz on my cpu and my temps are at 30 Celsius!
    • This is thermal compound, and good thermal compound
    • This is the best thermal compound I ever used.
    • Great Thermal paste/compound for someone to use
    • All in all it's a good performance compound.
    • A good thermal compound keeps your processor temperature down.
    • Take it from a pro, MX-4 is my favorite compound.
    • Arctic cooling MX4 is one of the best thermal compound available
    • I give this review 5 stars because after owning one tube over the course of 2 years, it's the best thermal compound
    • Excellent thermal compound
    • I decided to splurge on this highly rated thermal cooling compound to go with my new computer build
    • It's a good thermal compound for what it's worth
    • Great thermal compound, keeps temps low
    • The compound is soft enough to lay and spread without to much mess
    • Old thermal compound breaks down and causes your CPU and video chips to run hotter.
    • This is great thermal compound for computers, I originally used Artic-Silver 5, but it was time to try something new and better
    • Best thermal compound out there
    • In all three cases the compound was very easy to apply with just a plastic card; I used an old gift card for this purpose
    • This compound is the best that I have used so far, out of 3 compounds that I have used this has kept my CPU about 10 to 15 degrees cooler
    • just open up the bottom, clean out the fan, clean off the old compound, put a drop of this stuff and put it together, let it set and your laptop will be happy again.
    • Seems to work better at keeping cpu & gpu cool than older cooling compounds.
    • This compound is amazing
    • This tube has enough thermal compound in it to last you quite a while too.
    • Really good thermal compound, its non-
    • There enough compound in the hypdermic to mount at least 2 processors.
    • For the price, this compound is superior to the other types of Thermal paste such as the silver versions
    • Dropped my old Phenom II x4's idle temperatures from 51°C with the awful OEM thermal compound to a much more comfortable 38°C with the stock cooler.
    • It is an amazing compound and a must buy if you own a Lenovo Yoga 720.
    • Works well and has the syringe has enough compound for 10 or more applications.
    • Perhaps the best thermal compound I've used from the Cooler Master brand and Artic Silver... this MX-4 works the best.
    • This thermal compound kept my computer 20 degrees cooler
    • Nice thermal compound
    • Fan and airflow play a part on CPU temp but without good compound the CPU will get super
    • HUGE improvement (12-15*C) over the stock paste that came on the stock cpu heatsink
    • Anyways after using this thermal compound and my Arctic Liquid Freezer 120, my CPU now idling just a few degrees over ambient temperatures and when under load, doesn't really go over 50°C anymore
    • Dropped my old Phenom II x4's idle temperatures from 51°C with the awful OEM thermal compound to a much more comfortable 38°C with the stock cooler.
    • I typically see about 38-44°C idle, and 65-70°C playing Fallout 4.
    • After this paste one card never gets hotter then 81 C and another which is mounted higher never goes up 88
    • Bam, temps lowered to 38-40°C idle, 34°C min, and peaking at 55°C after playing Bioshock Infinite for a few min!
    • 7700k sits around 33-50º C with this thermal past and a 212 tower cooler.
    • Under full load, this grease was able to keep the same CPU at a respectable 62 C after half an hour of stress testing.