{"id":19470,"date":"2010-07-08T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=19470"},"modified":"2010-07-08T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:58:54","slug":"arctic-cooling-mx-4-thermal-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/arctic-cooling-mx-4-thermal-compound\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Cooling MX-4 Thermal Compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUOTE:<\/strong> <em>&quot;Arctic Cooling needs no introduction; they have been around forever it seems. They have been making coolers for both CPUs and graphics cards for as long as I can remember and also they\u2019re the makers of one of my favorite thermal compounds, MX-2. The reasons behind why it is my favorite compound? Well, first off, it spreads very nice. There is no need for a special spatula or use of a credit card. Just put a blob in the middle of the die and spread it around by any means. Secondly, it takes no time to cure and has no conductive properties, a definite plus, especially if you apply too much material. In this case, what squeezes out the side will cause no harm; it just makes for a bit more cleanup later. The last reason I usually go for a tube of MX-2 is the availability and pricing.<\/em><i>     <br \/><em>I have seen better thermal compounds, especially since I get to try a few for free each year. I know the guy sitting at home doesn\u2019t want to shell out $5-10, sometimes even more for a tube of paste, especially for a test like this one where that would require getting something like $50 worth of TIM just to see if it was even worth it in the first place. So I dug through a box I have filled with various tubes of compound and brought them to testing to compare with our latest submission to TweakTown\u2019s labs.&quot;<\/em><\/i>    <br \/><strong>For more information, please visit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mailbot.tweaktown.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/TweakTown_News\/h\/20100706025949\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3383\/arctic_cooling_mx_4_thermal_compound\/index.html\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/mailbot.tweaktown.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/TweakTown_News\/h\/20100706025949\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3383\/arctic_cooling_mx_4_thermal_compound\/index.html\/', 'http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3383\/arctic_cooling_mx_4_thermal_compound\/index.html']);\" >http:\/\/www.tweaktown.com\/reviews\/3383\/arctic_cooling_mx_4_thermal_compound\/index.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUOTE: &quot;Arctic Cooling needs no introduction; they have been around forever it seems. They have been making coolers for both CPUs and graphics cards for as long as I can remember and also they\u2019re&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2535],"tags":[824,3888,1592],"class_list":["post-19470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-arctic-cooling","tag-mx-4","tag-thermal-compound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}