craig5320

Arctic Cooling MX-3 vs. GELID GC-2
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For those building a new system or upgrading a cooler on their processor a decent thermal paste can knock a few degrees off the temperature of major system components. For quite some time Arctic Cooling were the industry leader in thermal material with their impressive MX-1 and more recently MX-2 - however a new company, Gelid, hit the market with an excellent alternative in the form of GC-1 about a year ago. Since then GC-1 and MX-2 have been competing for our hard earned money but things are about to get a little more interesting as both manufacturers are refreshing their product line. Gelid have GC-2 heading to stores across the world now and we have an exclusive preview of Arctic Cooling’s MX-3 which aims to be the best performing compound available.

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Mac Daddy

Perfect timing on this review and nice job on the video showing viscosity Stu

Before I am finished with the mods on the Tempest case I will probably need a couple of tubes for all the sinks. It is looking like MX-3 here to try out.

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SeraphicSorcerer

Mx-3 isnt even on newegg yet. Darn.

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Veridian3

Can you say "world exclusive"

procupine14

Nice review! I really like seeing this new award system in action. Looks like I'll be picking up some MX-3 soon to reseat my waterblock.

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Neshi

does this include reseating of cooling solutions?

Nice review by the way. Does anybody else find it weird the temperatures go down with higher overclocks..?
And I always thought the pre-spreading of the thermal paste was better than a sigle droplet in the middle which is spread through pressure of the heatsink?

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SeraphicSorcerer

I secretly was hoping for a WTF award simply because it's that hilarious.


Almost makes me wish Gold was Pwn3d =P

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SeraphicSorcerer

If you could world exclusively send me some, and a new Heatsink for my 955BE I'd totally love you :P

My Coolit Dominos Screw just snapped as I was putting new Arctic Silver down (Because I had to relap the thing) And well.. I'm back on stock cooler, and crying. Took me 2 hours to get tweezers in and manually grab 1/8th twist and repeat...

but the stuff does look awesome....

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Veridian3

Probably not...

Different coolers were used for the stock and OC test to simulate different needs. The wording on that page explains it all.

I have the same opinion, Arctic cooling disagree

Neshi

thanks for explaining, I probably read too quickly through that bit about the different coolers

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Metaluna

They do have Tuniq TX-3 though. I've read speculation in the past that Tuniq TX-2 and AC MX-2 were the same stuff, so it's possible that the same holds true for MX-3/TX-3. It would be interesting to see a comparison test between the two. I haven't seen MX-3 for sale anywhere yet, at least not in the US.