Arctic will retire its ever-popular MX-5 paste, one of the staples in our recommendations below, as it makes way for the new MX-6 that just launched with claims of up to 20% better performance.
Cooling mainstay Corsair also has a new XTM70 blend that will be heading to our test bench soon, and Gelid has recently released its GC-4 Thermal Paste, showing that the TIM market is still thriving.Īs new pastes arrive, older pastes also get retired. Cooler Master introduced a new purple CryoFuze, and Alphacool unveiled its Apex thermal paste.
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Long-time PC cooler maker NZXT recently entered the market with its first paste, the not-very-excitingly named NZXT High-Performance Thermal Paste. Most, but not all, traditional pastes are electrically non-conductive.Įven though a dizzying array of different thermal pastes is available - some blends have been around for over a decade - new formulations still come to market at a surprising pace. In contrast, traditional thermal paste compounds are relatively simple for every experience level.
They are very hard to remove if you get some in the wrong place, which would fry your system. Liquid metal compounds are almost always electrically conductive, so while these compounds perform better than their paste counterparts, they require more focus and attention during application.
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