Latest about Thermal Paste
NZXT makes its gray gloop debut with High-performance Thermal Paste, and Alphacool claims it has the best non-liquid metal paste with its Apex product.
Streacom partnered up with Eden Reforestation Projects in an effort to reduce waste while creating a high-performance thermal paste.
Arctic's new MX-5 paste updates the successful MX-4 recipe for a useful lifetime of up to 8 years.
Thermaltake launches TG-30 and TG-50 thermal compounds with an unique way of applying them to the CPU
Acer reveals a new thermal pad that is claims allows 77% more power envelope and boosts CPU performance by over 12%.
Cooler Master has announced the revamped MasterGel Maker, MasterGel Regular and MasterGel Pro thermal paste, which you can spread onto your CPU or graphics card.
Now that we know AMD is using thermal paste instead of solder between its Raven Ridge-based dies and heat spreaders, it's time to determine whether we have a reason to complain.
After receiving an enormous amount of feedback on our Radeon R9 290X review, we grabbed yet another retail board, which demonstrated the same performance issues under load as we saw in our earlier investigation. Looks like it's time to disassemble a card!
It's time for the numbers. In addition to testing liquid metal compounds and thermally conductive adhesives, each paste is discussed on its own merits before we chart out the results of four usage cases. After all, these products behave differently.
If you find yourself fighting a stubbornly-low overclock, there's a chance that your thermal solution isn't working as effectively as it should. We're testing a number of thermal pastes that might help. But first, let's go over the basics of CPU cooling.