🔥 Cool down your tech, heat up your performance!
The Prolimatech PK-3 is a high-performance thermal paste with an impressive thermal conductivity of 11.2 W/m·K, designed to ensure optimal heat transfer for your devices. Weighing just 5g, it’s compact and easy to use, backed by a 2-year manufacturer’s warranty for added assurance.
Y**G
Probably one of the best thermal pastes around without going into exotic materials territory.
Like the title says, this is one of the best "normal" thermal pastes around. It consistently ranks within the top 3 of thermal pastes in every test and benchmark I could find online. Anything better is Diamond IC and Coollaboratory Ultra/Pro. Diamond IC uses tiny diamond particles but it also has a reputation to pit, or make little dents in your die or contact plate. Diamond particles if clumped together don't really compress well I suppose. I have Coollab Ultra and it is a great but it is also conductive and cannot be used with aluminum or any aluminum alloys. I use it between my CPU die and IHS but I can't use it on my video card because it has exposed circuits that it will short out.Even though PK-3 doesn't perform as well as the previous mentioned, it's only like 2-3 degrees difference which isn't terribly much. I did a LOT of research before purchasing this. PK-3 is non conductive and I can put it on circuits, between the IHS, on aluminum, nickel,copper, anything that needs good cooling. PK-3 consistently ranks within the top 3 of benchmark tests. The product is pricey though. I used to have the 1.5 gram version and that was only good enough for like 3 applications. The 5g tube will last you years and years.***Update 12/3/2018***After having this tube for 4 years now, I still have about 1/3 of a tube left. I've used this on countless computers including desktops, laptops, even GPUs. My experience over the years was that this stuff doesn't really dry out as long as you keep it in the syringe and cool and out of the sun. I have not noticed any noticeable temperature difference with my overclocked gaming CPU. I repasted it one year ago just because I had so much of this stuff lying around that I figured it wouldn't hurt. That was 3 years of undisturbed paste job!One thing I can say is that the consistency of the paste is "drier" and harder to spread compared to other pastes that may be more "liquidy." I would say the consistency feels like dry wall spackle - not exactly hard, but not liquid. Additionally I've noticed mounting pressure is also an important factor with this paste. Maybe because it's not a soft or liquid paste, you need strong mounting pressure, usually from a desktop or AIO cooler to really push the paste down and spread it. I've noticed the mounting pressure from most laptop coolers are not enough.In 2018 there are definitely better pastes available, Grizzly Kryonaut is the top name being used these days. Grizzly is a much more liquid paste and easier to spread. However in all comparisons and tests PK-3 is still around 2-3 degrees difference in performance during load. The paste holds up quite well even today. I would say though, the price should be decreased due to the competition.Advantages:+ Great cooling performance+ Very generous amount will last you years+ Does not seem to dry+ Does not need reapplication even after 3 yearsDisadvantages:- Price, it's costly and in 2018 where there's better pastes out there, the price needs to drop- "Dry" consistence. Not easily spread.- Needs high mounting pressure.
D**L
Excellent Heatsink Grease
Bought this to renew the heatsink grease on the power supply regulators for a turntable that I am restoring. This is an excellent product and should work nicely for that purpose. Spreads easily and is non conductive which is exactly what I needed.
J**Y
No problems so far
I’ve had this on the cpu for a couple weeks now I had no problems with overheating so far, so I guess it works 10/10
M**E
Pandemic hard to find!
Pk1 good/ Pk2 not so good - to thick/hard speading somewhat sandy PK3 the perfect mix. No worries about over applying/ Non conducting. 4 Over clockers kryonaut not my thing having to add acrylics to cover conducting points not my choice.
C**F
works just fine, i7-9th gen and i7-13th gen
i like the little spreader included, makes it easy to ensure you don't make a mess.
L**N
great for any laptop.
transfers the heat very efficiently from the CPU and GPU onto the heatsink and on top of that arrived very quick to me and it was very cheap too.thank you for great service.I will also suggest it to others with this exact link.
T**D
Good stuff!
I wanted to give this a try since i find repeatedly online that this has the best performance. I started out last year with arctic mx-4 on a ryzen 9 5900x cpu and a custom built water cooling system and my own coolant formula. Highest temp under load was 71c, no load 41c. 2 months ago i tried the arctic mx-6. It was hard to spread and high temp went down to 63c, low temp 40c. Yesterday i put this stuff on and what a difference. The highest temp measured: 57c, lowest temp is near ambient air at a whopping 38c. Tests were performed using DCS in VR mode gaming, and Daz3d for design. Daz put more load on the cpu as well as gpu. In game temp on dcs was 57C using multithread. While i think the price is a bit high, its a good product. Ive worked on computers since 1991 and wish this was around back then.
M**B
Excellent Product
I waited a little while to see the performance of this paste and yeah, it definitely outdoes artic’s product line by far.They even got me the product before Christmas, well done.
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