20 Best Liquid Metal Thermal Paste (2023 Updated)

What to say? It’s thermal paste. Smaller quantity in the tube than when I last bought thermal paste in 2013, different brand. Only wish there was more in the tube, so I could have used the newer stuff after I had to redo the cooling system installation on my laptop.

Ironically, after applying this thermal paste, my laptop’s failure to start was a bad (now fixed) connection, therefore I could have likely left this StarTech paste in place on the CPU and GPU. So I have no idea if it’s much better, or worse, than other thermal pastes.

Realistically, it’s probably the same.

I read a review on thermal pastes. Ease of use was one of the most important aspects. This paste is very easy to use and spread – Does not have “stringiness” that gets all over the place and not so thick that it is difficult to spread and remove.

Just the right consistency for spreading on the chip. Non-conductive.

Always, I prefer to put aside the CPU mfr. supplied heatsink and use aftermarket. For the most part, better older heatsinks, even from the AGP days, work fine for me. The heat problems are better or the same.

I use a thin layer of thermal compound. I can even see the proc die beneath. Idle temps are in the 30s or even lower. A thick or medium application just is no good. I hate to put it like this–it’s somewhat of an art–I put on a very small dab and spread it carefully and evenly over the die.

If the application is thick, remove it and redo it–I use bulk acetone and denatured alcohol and a q-tip with a proc, or for a HS soak a clean used t-shirt with the chemicals. Try to get the application as thin as possible.

It helps greatly to “lap” your heatsinks (if not smooth) with an electric hand sander (say a palm sander) and increasingly fine sandpaper. I have never had the problem of a runny consistency with this–it’s similar to AS-5.

As for shorting out, AS-5 would do the same, right (silver)? At this price, though, why not go with AS or a worthy competitor? (Forget silicone and the idiot globs that come with heatsinks. ) It will make you feel better.

Some new and interesting products from AS and competitors may soon supersede AS-5. Really, though, I don’t note any difference in performance between this and AS-5–it’s in the application. Have a good amount of preferred thermal compound available if you need to have it shipped.

It’s a good investment, and boxy stores and any others left are increasingly stupid concerning this (it’s a low-profit item for them and it takes space). it’s easy to forget thermal compound when you need to make a new sys or to upgrade your proc.

Applied conductonaut LM to my laptop CPU and GPU. My CPU doesn’t have the best heatsink contact so my gains vary between applications. In my current setup I get 15c lower temps under load and no CPU thermal throttling up to 80+W on a i7 9750H (my limitation at that level is VRM thermal limit).

Approx 5-10 improvement on GPU, it is power limited rather than thermal limited.

Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut wasn’t cheap at all but in my case it has been so much helpful because I have been so unlucky with silicon lottery that I got a 4770k that wouldn’t overclock due to thermal issue but with thermal grizzly it did overclock very well up to 4.

6Ghz with decent temperature. This product wasn’t for every one but it might do some magic for you as it does for me!.

A liquid metal thermal interface material, such as Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut, it is ideal thermal solution. It is vastly superior to all alternatives. This is the only thing I will use for my overclocked CPUs and highly recommend it.

A lot easier to apply than others when talking about viscosity and spread. I am satisfied enough that I shall buy Arctic products with confidence being the 1st time I’ve bought from you ARCTIC I’m happy I chose you over so many other brands.

🙂 so keep up the good work as it pays off !!! A big well done and thank you!.

much eaiser to spread then arctic silver 5 so can be sure of good coverage temps are about the same as when using as5 for cpu also re-pasted gpu was 8 years since purchess temps dropped almost 20c when playing borderlands 3.

I used this thermal paste to repair a PS4 pro that had overheating problems replaced the old paste with this new one and it works perfect no noisy computer anymore just a silent running ps4 with no overheating warnings.

I bought a bought a Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut 11. 1 grams syringe. I was expecting it to come with TWO applicators AND a spatula to help spread the paste. However, it only came with ONE applicator, while the spatula wasn’t even there! The consistency was a lot thicker than in “der8auer” video.

I put the sealed syringe inside a cup of hot water for 5 minutes as the manufacturer’s website suggested; to improve the paste’s viscosity– to no avail. As I was trying to spread it using the applicator, it would only spread by a little bit.

Then, if I try to spread it any more, the paste gets stuck onto the applicator from the CPU/GPU dyes. So, I had to apply a generous amount for the dye to be covered while spreading. Maybe I should have let the syringe sit in a BOILING water for 5 minutes.

Maybe I should have used the rice grain/pea methods. However, the temperatures are AMAZING until now (1 week). This thermal paste has reduce my idle temps from 48-52 °C to 38-42 °C. CPU was thermal throttling (94 °C and above) under stress test and couldn’t sustain full turbo boost clock rates.

Now, it maintains full turbo boost and stays around 72-79 °C. CPU: i7 9750H (undervolted) Kryonaut rating: 4 stars + Great improvements in thermals + Almost uniform core temps – Thicker consistency than advertised – Difficult to spread from my experience – Pricey – Missing applicator and spatula.

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is wonderful to work with. The syringe with special applicator tip made the job easy. In the past I’ve used the usual pea-sized amount in the centre, but some CPU coolers install by putting pressure on one side of the CPU heat spreader.

This causes the thermal paste to spread un-evenly. Putting small amounts in the corners or drawing an X does help, but it’s not perfect. The Thermal Grizzly applicator eliminates that problem entirely.

I have seen tests done of different application methods, but they didn’t test the installation method of the cooler. My own tests with my specific cooler showed huge issues with spreading. My temps are well in-check, and are seeing improvements over the paste installed at the factory for my AIO cooler.

I highly recommend this product.

Good product, an investment but great performances. There is a lot of paste, don’t buy such a quantity if it’s for one or two computer, else you could take the risk of having your paste dry in it’s tube since you would need it again years later.

Good choice of quantity for professionals. The paste tend to be elastic when applied without the furnished rubber applier, that I can’t find useful when doing and application on an exposed die. It’s non conductive, so you don’t really take great risks, but be warned.

This tube-tip is not designed for every application methods. Be crafty, precise and patient, or buy an other tube format. I’m pretty satisfied of both the product and the shipment time, but not recommended to everyone.

Great stuff i had a 5c drop on my gpu,. I just realised this as im typing that my11. 1g is actually 5. 5g i will be contacting OCUK about this but it wont affect my rating to the product its self as its awesome!What they dont mention: The tim spreadder nozziles show above are made of rubber.

User Note: Try to pull the plunger back to save some tim before storing it away. Its important to store it in the supplied air tight pouch to prevent tim from drying even in the tube the tim will dry over a long period of time.

Good thermal paste, comes with mini spreader if that’s how you prefer to apply it. I have coupled it with my amd 5600x cpu and coolermaster 120mm aio. Not seeing temps over 65 degrees celcius.

Used this on my 11700K and dropped temps by an average of 2-3°C compared to what I previously had on there (Noctua NT-H1) which was great as this CPU is universally known for being a bit of a hottie under heavy all-core loads.

So any temperature drop that can be had is always going to be beneficial. However, the biggest gains I had from this was when I decided to also re-paste my 2080 Ti card (MSI Ventus OC) with it. I was initially seeing core temps reach 79°C under full load in certain games which was just way too toasty for my liking.

After taking apart the GPU and giving it thorough clean out, I replaced the factory paste with Kryonaut Extreme and was very pleasantly surprised to see the temps now never exceeding ~64°C in graphically-intensive applications and in all of my games.

It was a game changer! (pun intended lol) I can definitely recommend this product, especially for replacing factory GPU thermal compounds.

This worked great in my latest build. Decided to test it out as I was a fan of Thermal Grizzly’s other products. This went on an 11700K set for all core 5 GHz. In a 23C ambient room, this combined with a ML360R AIO maintained Idle temp of 34C and max gaming temp of 57C over 4 hours.

YMMV, but as I have seen similar performance with the standard Kryonaut, I recommend sticking with the cheaper option. The temperature gains aren’t wide enough to justify extra cost, thus the 4 star rating.

Keep in mind this was a build using standard AIO equipment and a conservative OC. Sub-zero performance was not the goal.

Keeps my cpu cool, was skeptical on spending a little more for not a lot of product but it was well worth it, keeping my Ryzen 7 5800x cool when gaming on ultra and on productivity tasks. However my only gripe is that it comes with two different tips to spread the thermal paste but they don’t fit on the syringe, I recommend having a spatula or just applying your paste in which ever form you want, spread was good for me after just drawing an X shape.

Expensive q tips.. Had I known that the kit comes with an applicator I would never had bought.

TranslateShow in original languageIch habe meinen älteren i7 4770k geköpft und habe dann die Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut mit diesen Stäbchen verstrichen. Es ging reibungslos und sehr einfach, man konnte mit den Stäbchen auch gleich verhindern, dass etwas zu viel Flüssigmetall verteilt wird durch eine kleine Drehung.

Sehr zu empfehlen bei Flüssigmetall, bei Thermal Grizzly sind aber auch schon Stäbchen dabei. 17Grad unterschied dank Conductonaut und dieser Stäbchen ;.

TranslateShow in original languageGute Q-TIPS für die Ohren, Eine sehr gute Option wenn Flüssigmetall verteilt werden muss Wieder verwendbar wenn man direkt nach benutzen sauber macht

So grateful to Catherine for her expertise and willingness to go beyond what was asked in fixing my desktop. The CPU fan was gone. She diagnosed it immediately and ordered the parts we needed. Two days later it is better than new.

I appreciated her patience and willingness to do this job!!.

I used this on an ecofan for my wood stove on the heat Thermo plate. Worked great now the fan starts up at the lower temp. hopfuly will prolong the life of the fan. Arrive on time and great customer y.

I needed to do a amplifier repair and didnt have the thermal paste for the fets to heat sink. Looked good, worked great and now months later and the amp is still preforming great so I got to say for my purpose the product is great!!!.

Very good

TranslateShow in original languageDie Konsistenz der Paste ist dünn und schmierig, lässt sich gut verteilen. Der Nachteil ist aber, dass die Paste Fäden zieht. Andere, teurere Wärmeleitpasten die ich bis heute hatte, waren nicht viel besser.

Bei Vollast war die Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut nur ein bis zwei Grad besser, aber rund dreimal so teuer pro Gramm Paste. Die Arctic MX-4 bietet ein gutes Preis-Leistungsverhältnis. Die Arctic MX-4 mit der 8 gr.

Tube ist besonders für die empfehlenswert, die öfter mal den Kühler runternehmen oder den Prozessor oft tauschen oder mehrere Systeme haben etc. Sie ist einfach günstig und bietet eine gute Leistung.

TranslateShow in original languageUtilisée pour une vielle PS3 qui chauffe beaucoup, avec de l’Arctic Siver 5 le ventillo devait tourner à 70%, puis 95% ces derniers temps pour une température du CPU à 70°.

Changement opéré avec cette pâte : dans une pièce à 29°, le ventillo ne tourne plus qu’à 38% pour une chaleur du CPU aux alentours de 66°, absolument parfait pour moi, bien mieux que l’Arctic 5 et pour beaucoup moins cher ! À voir dans le temps évidement.

Bon par contre la pâte n’est pas facile à étaler et la spatule assez inappropriée (il vaut mieux utiliser la bonne vielle carte de crédit). Néanmoins cette spatule est assez utile pour retirer l’excès de pâte sur les côtés du CPU.

Good performance, but if you use their spreader attachment, you will lose a fair amount of these expensive paste! This makes my GPU around 2C lower than Arctic MX-4, but 7 times more expensive! Will not buy again.

I have bought this product a few days ago. Turn out it wasn’t what i wanted because of the deceptive description. It should be conductonaut not the aeronaut thermal paste.

Excellent quality and performs great, best thermal paste I’ve used wouldn’t use anything else keeps my computer running cool you can hardly hear the fan the heat is barely noticeable I did my research and now I’m really satisfied with the outcome.

Always looking at this guys stuff first

I foolishly purchased this cooler about a year before I was able to start using it. It worked well for about a year and then my computer started having random instability and crashes. I suspected the loud and hot AMD RX580 GPU, but could never pin the problem down since it was so intermittent.

Then one day on POST my system informed me that the CPU fan was not detected, I watched the CPU temp hit thermal shutdown and the system turned off. This steaming pile of junk has been causing me headaches for years as it slowly died! I now have I giant 10+ year old Zalman air cooler from my parts bin hanging out the open side of my case and my computer is more stable than ever.

Turns out years of random freezes and shutdowns were my CPU cooking when the water pump randomly decided not to work for a while. Cooler Master seems to have done a fine job value engineering their water cooler to fail just outside the warranty period.

Cooler Master then avoids any responsibility and provides a handy flowchart on their warranty page telling you to go to the retailer you bought it from while they hide behind their website like The Great OZ hiding from supplicants! BOOOO! A pox on you Cooler Master! My recommendation is to take a quick look at vendor’s warranty page before buying your next AIO cooler.

This case is cheap; sadly it shows it. Starting with a cheap acrylic side panel that scratches by just looking at it and rather thin sheet metal, it offers very little room to customize the computer.

– non removable 5 3/4 bay restricts the front mounts severely (considering hardly anyone uses this old school bay. it should have been fully removable) – no top exhaust mount possible and only one single rear mounted exhaust fan just isnt enough.

– it states that you can mount a 240 AIO in the front. but, this mount is limited to an orientation of the AOI that will kill it in short time. with the tubes at the top (a correct mount is tubes coming out at the bottom to avoid buildup or air) – at the bottom, the PSU bay is in the way making it impossible to mount it there.

there is also insufficient room to fasten the screws of the lower mounted fan properly. – it accepts ATX boards (but just barely) – no vertical GPU mount is possible – however. air flow for an air cooler is fine.

with even larger air towers being possible like Fuma 2, Dark Rock 4 or the Noctua DS series conclusion: This is a nice case for low end builds (is what it targets. ) – i would NOT recommend an AIO inside.

and the case gets pretty hot with a 3080 running at full steam due to insufficient intake/exhaust ports. Large tower coolers block airways of larger GPUs in that case. However at a pricepoint of 50€ you cannot expect more.

If you plan to upgrade your computer – and buy a case that allows it, i recommend spending 50€ more to get into the 100€ case category, which offers much better space management. This is a mid tower that has enough space for ITX.

but claims it can fully deal with ATX/u – but fails at that.

Bought this case for a new build a couple weeks ago. I really like the look and design of it. I have seen complaints about the airflow, but it’s honestly not too bad. There are dust-filtered vents along the sides of the front, and another vent along the bottom of the front.

The case has room for plenty of front fans to help pull air in. I was able to mount two 140mm front fans, even with the optical drive bay installed (the bottom front fan just dips about 1/4 of the way into the shroud’s hole, which doesn’t hurt airflow too much).

The lack of vents on the top is actually ideal for me since I live in a house with lots of pets. My old case had a much open design without dust filters and trying to keep it dust-free was a nightmare.

I will say that if you have a couple of conventional HDDs to install, this may not be the best case for that. Getting the SATA and power cables around the back where the 3. 5 inch drives mount is a bit tricky, but doable.

If you had two 3. 5 inch drives to connect though, I could see that being a pain. SSDs mount in much more accessible areas, so if that’s all your system has you shouldn’t have a problem with cables. Overall, I am very happy with this case.

A great look and high quality finish at a great price with the rebate.

Bought this paste for my NZXT Kraken water cooling. Had built a new PC with a Ryzen 5800X and the stock thermal pad didn’t seem to be getting the job done as the CPU temps were getting too high and the water temp wasn’t shifting.

I bought the Grizzly Hydronaut and the CPU temps are lower, more stable and I can see the heat transfer to the Water as the water temp does increase a little. Its rated at a conductivity effect of 11.

8 W/mk which supposedly will work with large and medium-sized cooling systems. The paste was easy to apply with the provided syringe and attachments. Its a little bit more expensive than the stock paste but you get what you pay for in this case.

I spent some time reviewing various thermal pastes, and this hit the sweet spot for non-liquid metal options. It was in the top 10 performers for cooling based on the tests performed by several different websites, and it lasts for several years (compared to some that got crusty after just one year).

This comes with a really nice spreader that lets you easily put an incredibly thin layer across the entire IHS (the metal part of the processor). It’s keeping my 5800X at almost the same temperatures that my 2700X was with the exact same computer and cooler setup.

I definitely reocmmend!.

After thorough research, I decided to pick up this paste with the purpose of replacing my EVGA 3080’s stock thermal paste. One thing that you have to watch out for is the “pump out effect” in which the thermal paste leaves the intended point of contact with the cooler from the constant heating and cooling.

The Hydronaut is effective in counteracting that effect. Furthermore, as the summary stated above says, it dropped my GPU core temps by 3-4 degrees. Pretty effective paste.

it is excellent as thermal compound, but watch out: a compound is not a glue! It was definitely my fault, but compounds do not cure, they stay “soft”

Awesome product….. Made my PS4 – PS3 and laptop EXTREMELY cool and quite. I will TOTALLY RECOMMEND IT . A+++++++ No Less

I’ve used several different named brands of paste in the past , but this stuff is just as good even under the high temperatures of pc’s and gaming consoles I’ve repaired with it and if used properly can do quite a few gaming consoles just with this one tube , great stuff and noticed the drop in temperatures from the core read outs as well which is always a good sign.

So far, i have been happy with the temperatures that i’ve been getting with this thing. It’s usually around 12-19 celsius when i am just browsing the internet and emails but goes up to 30s-40s during gaming.

My only problem with this is that if you want to try a different application method besides the pea, you’re going to have a bad time. It doesn’t spread well and it’s really sticky which i found out the hard way when trying to do the spread method.

Luckily, this is non conductive and was easy to clean up with alcohol and cotton swabs. Overall, go tradition pea/rice size and you couldn’t go wrong with this. Oh there’s definitely plenty inside the tube because i kept messing up and still had extras.

Installed this on 2 computers right away. My old AMD Athlon 2100+ which was having severe overheating issues (182F+ under load) due to the ambient temp being very high in my garage (110F+). Temp now hoovering around 142F under load, which is much better than it was.

30F over ambient is far better than 70F lol. On my HP a6200n (AMD 5000+ w/ stock cooler) would idle at around 95-100F and spike to 137F under full load. After TX-2, I’m idling at 64F, which is lower than ambient.

Under full load I only managed to get it to 111F. I always used Arctic Silver 5 in the comps I built for family, but due to the Arctic Silver 5 costing much more nowadays and great reviews I saw for TX-2, I took a gamble on TX-2 and it definitely paid off.

Pondering spreading this stuff all over my body due to the heatwave we’ve been having in Indiana ;).

I have personally used the Arctic Silver line of products for many years and this Arctic Silver 5 (AS5) Poly-synthetic Silver Thermal Compound is the best yet. I use this on any computer that I build, especially my personal ones, because a thermal compound is absolutely vital in assisting in the transfer of the microprocessor’s heat to the heat sink.

It’s far more efficient than regular heat transfer compounds, and despite the high silver content the AS5 Compound is not electrically conductive so it won’t short out other components. This particular product is a great buy if you have large projects or will we be working with several different applications.

The extra-large size tube is very cost-effective even if you don’t use it often because has a very long shelf-life and doesn’t separate while in the tube. It is very important to note, however, that AS5 doesn’t reach it’s maximum effectiveness until it has been in use for about 200 hours, during which the joining where the AS5 was used has the opportunity to have been heated and then allowed to cool multiple times, as in a computer that sees daily use but is not left on full-time.

It is also absolutely vital that the mating surfaces be extremely clean for the compound to work correctly. Target also sells (as of this writing) an Arctic Silver surface preparation cleaning product.

Much more detailed technical information on the AS5 can be had from the product’s official web site at http://www. arcticsilver. com/as5. htm From my 15+ years experience with many different thermal compounds I feel I can wholeheartedly recommend Arctic Silver line as among the very best I have ever used and the Arctic Silver 5 as the best of the Arctic Silver line of products.

If you are interested in the efficient use of this sort of high-performance heat-transfer a quick internet search will show several different write-ups on the best practices to follow.

Silver is THE Most conductive of All the metals -Yes – even over Copper and Gold. Gold is used to keep Silver and Copper from oxidizing and when they oxidize they decrease heat transfer and of course electrically.

Gold is used as a plating to stop this process from happening. Hench the Gold on all the pins you see on MoBo’s and other electronics. Silver is a Natural Germicidal Agent and Bactericidal Killer. Silver is used in many everyday applications.

This product is safe stuff – if anything your PC will be much healthier by using it. Still remember one thing Silver is conductive so Creep (spreading out of the material under pressure) will occur so Do Not Apply To Much.

It is also hard to get off and i am not a fan of using strippers or gasoline to remove this stuff. Then you might have a unwanted ‘Huffing’ experience without proper ventilation. All the other ingredients are none hazardous to your health and i doubt the CPU will ever get hot enough to melt the Ceramic partials into a Mug.

The other elements are just not going to be a factor in safety – i. e. zinc oxide, aluminum oxide, boron nitride particles and of course ceramic particles. The compound is stable, but over the long term i found it to become thick and crack giving way to Air Pockets and that Does effect the CPU temp ratings.

So this is a Safe Product to use No Doubt it just does not last as long in it’s ‘Original State’ than i would like.

Prior to installation, purify the surface/component before applying this compound. You do not want to dilute it with previous compound applications. Be sure to stress the component (CPU/GPU) upon initial application to set and cure the paste.

Initial temperatures will seem lower than the average temperatures after a month of consistent usage. Over time, the paste will dry and a reapplication may be necessary if not enough compound is applied initially.

My first installation with this compound was on an Early 2011 13. 3 inch Apple MacBook Pro running an Intel Core i5 2. 3ghz (Sandy Bridge Core i5 2415m). Initial temperatures using Apple’s stock thermal compound ranged from 55 degrees celsius at idle to 107 degrees celsius at load.

After applying this compound, I was able to drop the temperatures to 38 degrees celsius at idle to 96 degrees celsius at load. That’s an excellent improvement compared to what similar users have reported.

I expect this MacBook CPU to last much longer with these improved ratings.

I’ve been using Arctic Silver heat sink compounds for electronics since they first came to market, and this latest version is the best one to date! With long-term working temperature ranges of -238F to +266F (365F peak), electrically non-conductive/non-capacitive, and physical stability (does not run, separate, or migrate), this compound is perfect for automotive, heavy equipment, and industrial uses in places like where I live – smack in the middle of Alaska where winters get as cold as -65F.

I am using this particular purchase as a heat sink compound for GM engine ignition modules. I’ve used Arctic Silver 5 in the past, but I bet Ceramique 2 will work even better!.

I have used several different Thermal Compounds on CPU’s and had a different brand on my new ASUS PC. It has dropped temps 40 F on certain Games and Benchmarks. I am really Amazed with this Thermal Paste and Recommend It Over All Others.

This paste, I bought because I needed some & this was on promo at Newegg, twice. My first purchase of it was over a year ago & it was enough for 5-6 uses. Oddly, the last time I purchased it, wasn’t on promo & just hours later, a tube 8x larger went on promo.

If the larger size goes on promo grab it. Mine are the 2. 7 gram size, though those who needs it once or twice a year, the smaller size will do. It doesn’t harden or clog during storage. Note that unlike some brands of paste & this isn’t a con, it takes 24 to 48 hours of use for it to cure good.

Meaning that if the prior applied paste was shot, there will be immediate drop in temps, but will drop more after curing good. This isn’t watery stuff like comes with some CPU’s. The “oat size” “rice grain size” doesn’t apply to this brand, it takes just a little more & spreading it a little doesn’t hurt either.

However, don’t over spread it, just enough to get it to squeeze when the heat sink is installed. This paste has worked very well for me, the 1st time I used it, was on a Dell Dimension 2400, upgraded the 2.

4GHz Celeron to the largest one it would take, a 3. 06GHz Northwood with H/T. And still was able to use the stock heat sink, which was simply a finned aluminum block with no attached fan. There was a fan that dropped over it, but unlike Intel heat sinks, not combined.

Anyway, the 3. 06GHz CPU ran at a slightly lower temp than the stock one did with this paste, so I was able to ignore the advice to upgrade cooling. This paste saved me at least $20-30 the cost of an extra cooler.

Have used it on several others, both AMD & Intel, with similar results. This paste has never failed me, for how good it is, it’s a shame the product isn’t in the top 10 of aftermarket brands of paste.

It deserves to be there, based on protection for the cost.

After watching Linus Tech Tips about Thermal Compound I got myself some of this.. It works.

If you have to ask, chances are, you shouldn’t be using it. If you know what you’re doing, Conductonaut is far superior to the handful of other liquid metal thermal interface materials out there.

Just for info there is no breaking in period for thermal compound. the time it takes to Break in is the time it takes for the small polymers to soak down into the small microscopic crevices. and weather it is made w silver, aluminum, ceramic.

they are all non conductive they r mixed w a non conductive polymer the combination makes the compound Resist conducing electricity. they are all heat conductors. the same technology is used in the cooling compounds in liquid cooling units.

In the early days of applying this compound. lol i thought more was better. and always put on a ton. none of the comp that i did this to failed. they did not cool as well as they could have because too much is almost worse than not enough.

very thin layer on both cpu and block so thin u can almost see thru it. then no mess and it will heat into the surfaces faster. The above statement is my opinion, if it differs from yours you are probably wrong (lol jk).

The first CPU I used this on I put a grain of rice sized squirt. I spread it thin util it was all over and even. Putting on the heatsink was not fun. Every time I touched the CPU it acted like glue and it stuck.

Stuck so hard it felt like I could pick up the computer with the unattached heatsink. I had to twist it back and forth till it was off the side of the cpu for fear it would rip it out of the socket. I then spread it some more, removing some, until it was almost see trough like I would do with arctic silver.

It then lost the glue like property. So spread it thin. AMD 1090T – Arctic cooler – 22c idle, 54c load. AMD x2 555 BE – Asus Triton – 24c idle, 58c load. AMD Sempron 140 – Stock cooler – 18c idle, 42c load.

Make sure you read the instructions on the application of this product from their website. Use their cleaner and surface preparation products to remove anything foriegn from the surface of the heatsink and the processor heat spreader.

Also, when you are done cleaning the surfaces, see how the surfaces mate. Put them together and make sure you dont see light between them. Sometimes the edges of the heat spreader on a cpu are raised slightly.

I find that a fingernail file used VERY carefully and sparingly will often fix this problem and then the surfaces of the heatsink and processor heat spreader will mate properly. (On my last processor, fixing this problem dropped my idle temp from 49C to 23C.

).

TranslateShow in original languageIch habe nach einer preiswerten und guten Wärmeleitpaste gesucht und diese gefunden. Lies sich gut auftragen und hat im Laufe der letzten 6 Monate Ihren Dienst erfüllt.

Gibt sicherlich andere Produkte, die noch mehr Leistung bringen können, aber wenn man nix verrücktes vor hat sollte diese völlig ausreichend sein.

TranslateShow in original languageAuch wenn dies gro angekndigt wurde, ob die Wrmeleitpaste tatschlich in Deutschland hergestellt wird, ist nicht bekannt. Jedenfalls ist die Wrmebertragungsleistung sehr gut.

Der Temperaturgradient ist bestimmt sehr gering, zumindest offenbar geringer als beim Vorgngerprodukt. Die Paste lsst sich gut verteilen, gut dosieren und ebenso gut anwenden. Auerdem ist das Preisleistungsverhltnis, vor allem was den Preis angeht, im Vergleich mit anderen Premiummarken sehr ordentlich.

Die Frage ist dabei, welche Leistung die teueren Wrmeleitpasten an den Tag legen. Die gekaufte Paste reicht fr 3 Anwendungen. Ob das gut oder schlecht ist, muss der Kufer selbst entscheiden. Wenn die Khler richtig verbaut werden, beim ersten Mal richtig, dann wird nur eine Anwendung bentigt, der Rest knnte unter Umstnden in der Spritze vertrocknen.

Falls unterschiedliche Konfigurationen getestet werden sollen oder anzunehmen ist, dass mehrere Fehler auftreten werden, sollte ein Produkt mit grerem Inhalt gewhlt werden.

TranslateShow in original languageDie Wärmeleitpaste Glatteis von EKL Alpenföhn ist simpel verpackt und einfach in der Verwendung. Der kleine, hilfreiche Kamerad aus der Spritze ist preiswert und genügt den Anforderungen an Wärmeleitpaste, wie man sie kennt.

Das Auftragen ging einfach von der Hand ohne viel Drücken oder Pressen – so kann man auch sicherstellen, dass nicht zu viel oder zu wenig Paste auf den Prozessor gelangt. Natürlich ist diese Wärmeleit zu empfehlen mit einem Lüfter von EKL Alpenföhn, ist natürlich auch unbedenklich in der Kombination mit Lüftern anderer Hersteller.