Arctic Cooling ACFZI30 CPU Cooler Thermal Paste

[Gamingpc78]

Hi Everyone,
I am buying Arctic Cooling ACFZI30 74.0 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler. his is my first build and I want to know if I need to buy Thermal Paste Separate of It comes with pre applied?

Thanks in Advance.

 

[dfuze]

Every 3rd party cooler (heck, even the Intel & AMD ones) I've ever seen come with paste pre applied to the heat sink. How good it is is up to debate. I have quite a supply of Arctic Silver 5 and out of paste experiences with it always switch to it since I always mild-mid overclock my CPU. If you are not going to OC then you could just stay with what comes with it.

 

[Gamingpc78]

Every 3rd party cooler (heck, even the Intel & AMD ones) I've ever seen come with paste pre applied to the heat sink. How good it is is up to debate. I have quite a supply of Arctic Silver 5 and out of paste experiences with it always switch to it since I always mild-mid overclock my CPU. If you are not going to OC then you could just stay with what comes with it.

So If I am going to OC I need to buy Thermal Paste?

 

[lehtv]

That's correct. Arctic i30 includes AC's own MX-4 thermal paste which is very good. It comes in a tube and you apply it yourself, there's enough for at least a couple of uses

http://www.hardocp.com/images/articles/1347545052emQbIt0hOA_3_4_l.jpg

 

[Gamingpc78]

That's correct. Arctic i30 includes AC's own MX-4 thermal paste which is very good. It comes in a tube and you apply it yourself, there's enough for at least a couple of uses

http://www.hardocp.com/images/articles/1347545052emQbIt0hOA_3_4_l.jpg

That's Great. no need to spend extra $$$ on Thermal Paste.