Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound

[Capper]

Application:
CPU, GPU and other applications between power semiconductor components and heat sinks.

Recommended Retail Price (excl. VAT):
7.95 USD / 5.95 EUR

High Performance Thermal Compound for the Enthusiast
Turbo MX-2 is a high conductive and low resistance compound for components that require the best thermal dissipation. MX-2 is ideally suited for use in CPU, GPU cooling and other applications between power semiconductor components and heat sinks where high thermal conductivity is critical.

Main Features:

• High Thermal Conductivity
• Low Thermal Resistance
• Non-Electrical Conductive
• Non-Capacitive
• Non-Curing
• Non-Corrosive
• No Bleeding
• Odorless

No Metal Particles
Since the MX-2 compound does not contain any metal particles, there are no problems regarding electrical conductivity and capacitance. In contrast to silver and copper compounds, contact with electrical traces, pins, and leads cannot result in any damage.

Durability
Curing and bleeding of the compound is not possible. In contrast to metal or silicon pastes, this compound does not show decreasing performance over time, does not need to be reapplied and has a durability of at least 8 years.

Performance:


- Tested with: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 overclocked at 2.8GHz.
- Data source: MVKTech Arctic Cooling MX-2 Performance Compound :: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 8600 GTS 7950 7900 7600 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX X1950 XT X1900 X1650 - MVKTech
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http://www.arctic-cooling.com/arctic...sheet_MX-2.pdf

[OCNoob]

Conveniently, they score it .5C better than that Akasa stuff. That 8 year part sounds good though.

[Yellowhello]

Better than AS5? Wow!! Is that chart from AC's internal testing because is seems sort of biased to me.

[gvblake22]

I like the fact it is not electrically conductive. Always nice to see more competition in a market segment!

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

I like the fact it is not electrically conductive. Always nice to see more competition in a market segment!

Ya, for some reason I thought that AS was the only quality thermal paste on the market, but I guess I was wrong!!

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by yellowhello

Ya, for some reason I thought that AS was the only quality thermal paste on the market, but I guess I was wrong!!

Arctic Silver is the major player in the TIM market, but The Arctic Silver 5 is most definitely not the only quality TIM. Arctic Silver Ceramique is Arctic Silver's best non-conductive TIM. I've used it on lots of stuff so far and it works great, very easy to spread too. I remember using the Arctic Cooling TIM a while back (I think it was the MX-1) and it was very difficult to spread. It was almost dry and broke apart, not gooey like AS5 or Ceramique. Hopefully this MX-2 is a little easier to work with...