REUSABLE – You’ll never have to worry about buying thermal paste ever again. The graphite thermal pad can be reused on multiple builds with no loss in performance. - TOP TIER THERMAL PERFORMANCE – The IC graphite pad features a thermal conductivity of 35W/m-k.
Great thermal proformens but the price is still quiet high
In my testing IC graphite Thermal Pad proformes exactly as ARCTIC MX-4.
MX-4 is much cheaper but the thermal pad can be reused.
If the price could come down below 10$ I would never use anything else.
If the price could be lower than 5$ I would never recommend anything else, except for extreme cases.
In the test-setup I run blender on first 4 cores, then 3,2 and 1. I log the CPU temp, air temp, humidity, CPU Watt and calculate a delta temp between the air and the CPU.
As you can see the delta temp is about the same for MX-4 and the graphite pad.
Thermal Pad Works, I had to replace my thermal compound after a move my tempter was getting 88c idle 48 50c now 38c max 70c and the pad last a lifetime and reusable