This makes it an ideal choice for users who may be new to applying thermal paste and are concerned about damaging their components. The low viscosity of the MX-5 compound makes it very easy to apply.

Thermal paste is one of the things keeping your CPU running well, but does that make it worth spending extra money on? The ...

Thermal paste, also sometimes called thermal compound or grease, is a common element used when building one's own PC or rehabilitating an old unit. This substance is usually sold in tube-shaped ...

Using Coollaboratory’s Liquid Pro thermal grease Each CPU was tested idle and under 100% load first at stock clocks which is 3.5GHz for the i7 3770k, second overclocked to 4.6GHz at 1.2v.

You only need to apply Arctic's MX-5 thermal paste once every 8 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Readers of this blog remember the recent issue about the amount of thermal grease (or paste) that Apple applies to the chips in the MacBook Pro. There's pretty decent evidence that over ...

We applied our standard thermal testing compound—Arctic Silver Lumiére—and cranked up the utility until the CPU was consistently just under 90C, then used those settings for every future test.

The new purple-colored themal paste in the form of the new CryoFuze Violet thermal compound hasn't got official pricing from Cooler Master, but we do have listings on Newegg already, with a cost ...

Rather than a tube of paste, Heilos is a 0.2mm-thick pad of thermal compound that is applied to the base of the heatsink. Thermalright claims it has created a high-quality pad that's easy to use ...