The Best Thermal Paste

I think the best is arctic silver 5. thats my opinion.

A comparison awhile back said the OCZ freeze performed marginally better than most other TIMs, but it's only by fractions of degrees. I would just go with whatever you can get for cheapest. AS5 is also a popular choice, as is IC7, etc.

wth? where is MX-3? i demand that be put up now!

OCZ Freeze FTW!!!

Shin Etsu X23 7783D is the best-performing traditional paste. Best-performing TIM of any kind would either have to be home-made diamond paste or Indigo Xtreme.

MX-2 for me. Although MX-3 is suppose to barely give you a very slight temp drop over MX-2 but is almost undectable in reality. Other users like OCZ Freez. All of the ones I mentioned are non conductive and give instant gratification due to them not having a cure or break in time before max cooling takes affect like AS5 listed ^ abouve.

IC Diamond or MX-2/3

MX-3 (MX-2 if on a budget)

Indigo Xtreme.

For price to performance, Arctic Silver 5.
Best overall, IC7.

Always used AS5 and always had good temps with it.

Arctic Cooling MX-2 is what I'm using and its working fine so thats what I would say is value for money.

other: arctic mx-3

I like Tuniq TX-2. Works great, cheap, non conductive. Everyone should give it a shot if they haven't already.