Antec Formula 6 Nano Diamond Thermal Compound

Pros: Keeps the CPU cool, ~28C idle with a cool master hyper 212.

Easy to use, included a plastic spreader to apply.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: It's a little pricey for thermal paste, but it works good.

Pros: Spread even over the cpu and gpu, gave great cooling for my AMD 8120 OC 4.4Ghz, 16C idle and 46C full load with stock cooling. Also spread over my GTX 275 and GTS450 gets about 38C - 60C on load.

Cons: Wished i had more :) LOL

Pros: This worked flawlessly. keeps my i5-3570k at 25 degrees Celsius at idle, and 29 degrees Celsius at full load. I have a mid tower case with 3 low CFM fans. so i'm really impressed with this product.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: when i put the paste on i used all of it. i would highly recommend this product to everyone

Pros: It makes about a 5° C difference from non-diamond dust compounds. Application is easy and the stick it comes with does work, you just have to have some patience.

Cons: None that I can comment on as of yet.

Other Thoughts: Great and will buy for future builds.

Pros: High heat conductivity base on it's composition.

Cons: Does not work well with others...there are easier products to use. May have to use if other pastes won't keep your processors cool enough

My package did not include instructions...however, their website does give the proper instructions on how to use.

Don't know if it's worth the extra bucks...maybe if you're overclocking???

Other Thoughts: You don't have be a pro to use this product. After applying this product to two CPUs and two GPUs I just about threw it out. It did ball up and did not spread very well. Some will say a little drop will do you but with my quad core I am not going to take the chance on burning it up. I figure they put the surface there for a reason. Per the Antec website they don't recommend that either! Here's the secret...BE CLEAN AND PATIENT. The clumping was my fault because I cut corners and just wiped off the surfaces and spread it to quickly. Wipe both surfaces with a lint free cloth wet with 99% iso alcohol. Wait for alcohol to dry, then with the tool they give you or an old credit card, spread the paste SLOWLY with the tool at about a 30 degree angle. If you pull too fast the paste will lift off the surface. Just work it around the processor slowly until a thin layer is achieved but remember we're not building a house with it so don't want to go overkill. No need to apply to heat sink surface. Put the heat sink on and I like to twist the heat sink a little to set the paste and work into any surface missing paste.

Hope this helps!

Pros: When I replaced the Arctic Silver 5 on my overtaxed GPUs (See "Other thoughts") with this stuff, I noticed an immediate reduction of ~12 degrees Celsius. The two cards went from about 70 and 63 down to 56 and 54.

Since my computer is in a room that tends to get a little dusty, I end up cleaning heatsinks often and find myself needing to reapply thermal paste. I can appreciate a thermal paste that, while still freshly applied, outperforms a fully-cured application of Arctic Silver 5.

I also applied it to my CPU, but since it was already running pretty cool, I saw only modest improvements.

Cons: When I call it a "thermal paste," that's exactly what I mean; it has approximately the same consistency as paste. Some may find this difficult to work with, but I found that in situations that allow it, using a "smoosh and twist" technique before securing the heat sink spreads the paste well. Granted, not every scenario allows for that kind of motion between heat sink and processor (even before locking down), so your mileage may vary.

Other Thoughts: Regarding the 5450's... I was making the best of the situation, and while two performed far better than one (roughly doubled the Unigine benchmark), that still wasn't much. I would compare them to running one 5570, if you're curious. Replacing the passive heat sink helped somewhat.
The temperature difference between the two cards was partly because I only had one extra heat sink to swap in for the stock passive cooler, and partly because of a flaw in the motherboard design... Really, Biostar, who puts two PCI-Ex16 slots 1.5 inches apart? You do, that's who. Oh! And throw in a PCI-Ex1 slot between them, too.

If anyone is mortified that I compared this product to the revered AS-5, I won't be offended if you assume I had applied it wrong. Whatever helps you feel better, right?

Pros: Simple to apply, simply put a pea size of it in the ceneter and lay down the heatsink, that's it. DO NOT TRY TO SPREAD IT!! About 80% of the people that buy thermal paste don't seem to understand that the CPU is actually protected by a cover and all the heat is actually in the center meaning covering the whole thing makes no difference at all!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This is better at moving heat than silver and require less paste.

Pros: none

Cons: I bought this locally from a store that had it. I have worked with thermal compound before but this was just terrible. Its thick and hard to work with, coverage is spotty at best. Mine came with a small plastic spreader to move the compound evenly and it wound up taking off the compound as opposed to putting it on. I wasted more than half trying to put this on. To top if off, it didnt lower my temperatures at all. The thermal compound that had been sitting on the processor and heatsink for 5 years did a better job. Hopefully it will cure more, and drop temps but it has been running overnight and no change. The compound went on an Athlon X2 4800+ (socket 939)

Expensive compared to other brands that do better for less.

Other Thoughts: Thoroughly dissapointed, was an impulse buy since I needed it in a pinch and I learned my lesson. Would not recommend and would not buy again.

Manufacturer Response:

Hi gm0n3y1818,

I'm sorry you had trouble with the Formula 6. You may contact us at VIP@antec.com and we'll have someone get in touch with you and answer all the questions you have. Thank you.

Chris
Antec Customer Support

Pros: REALLY WORKS WELL, CORE TEMP 1.0 AND CPUID HARDWARE MONITOR BOTH DISPLAY CORE TEMPERATURES OF LESS THAN 10*C AT IDLE AND MID 30*C AT FULL LOAD, HYPER PI, CINEBENCH CPU, ETC. ON THIS RIG FX-4100 (4.6G, 24/7) THE CURRENT DAILY DRIVER.

Cons: NONE, IF YOU CAN'T SPREAD THE PASTE, HIRE SOMEONE THAT CAN.

Other Thoughts: THIS RIG: FX-4100(BUS SPEED 233, MULTIPLIER 20, CPU VCORE 1.52V) CORSAIR H50. OTHER RIGS: FX-8150, PHENOM 1100T, PHENOM X2 560, i5-2500K, i7-920, i7-860, i5-670, i3-540, Q6600. ALL OVERCLOCKED AND OVERVOLTED FROM 3.8G TO 5.0G. KEEPS THEM ALL COOL WITH AIR OR LIQUID. SEE LIST OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES AT WIKIPEDIA.

Pros: It works.

Cons: Very difficult to spead, thick clumpy and spotty coverage.

Other Thoughts: Artic Silver cheaper and better.