Antec Formula 6 Nano Diamond Thermal Compound Review

Results
Firstly, the results aren’t as conclusive as we were hoping for. It shows that the MX-2 is still a strong candidate and we have seen that its newer brother MX-4 beats the rest of the field hands down. Unfortunately we weren’t able to test MX-2 against MX-4, but its safe to say they are both very good and as such are still competition for the Antec Formula 6.

The Idle results are shown first and as you can see there is not much separating them.

We then start the stres testing and start to see some variance with the Formula 7 coming out on top but by a very small margin over the Formula 6. In all fairness they are too close to separate the two Antec thermal compounds out in this test.

From our resutls you can see that the Antec Formula 6 did in fact have a better average temperature for all results compared to the MX-2 and the Evercool. However, the first run we did (we did it 3 times) the temperatures we gained were as high as the MX-2 but on the second and third runs we got lot better results and as such the average is quite a bit lower. The MX-2 did not however improve.

The Formula 7 did beat the Formula 6 but it is the newer bigger brother so this is not surprising however the temperatures are so close it is hard to say whether it is certainly better or there was just a small error in our readings (or more likely rounding errors as formula 7 was slightly lower it went to the lower degree where as formula 6 went to the degree C above). However as a comparison, Formula 6 beat MX-2 hands down as well as the Evercool Thermal Paste – the latter being thrown in to show you how good the thermal paste that comes with a mediocre CPU cooler is likely to be. It is our recommendation to purchase a decent branded thermal paste and not use the own brand thermal compound.