Zen 3 Rig (2022 - Present):AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti FE | G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32GB DDR4-3600 | ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero | 2x Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB | Crucial MX500 1TB | Corsair RM1000x | Lian Li O11 Dynamic | LG 48" C1 And unfortunately with Ryzen 7000 CPUs delidding does 10 times better than the best thermal paste out there. ARCTIC made a conscious decision not to specify any values for the thermal conductivity of its thermal paste and thermal pads because many manufacturers invent, artificially inflate or embellish this value. Thermal paste has a thermal conductivity of 1 to 4 W/mK. Values outside of this range, such as 12.5 W/mK, are at odds with the truth.

ChomiqGN doesn't test thermal compounds. Running ads doesn't mean they are biased towards TG. Just look at their coverage of LGA1700 frames.im not saying they are biased, its just not something, I would think even they themselves would say, that should be done by them, being in their position.watt HamsterCertain batches had problems with material separation that Arctic was apparently unable to solve.Still better than MX-3. :P That thing was just... something else. You may have heard of thermal pads being used by many as a replacement for thermal paste. That's entirely normal because thermal pads are also highly efficient. Thermal pads are primarily used on M.2 SSD modules. As such the heatsink or the motherboard shroud covering the M.2 SSD module holds thermal pads to dissipate the heat produced by the modules. It works the same way as thermal paste, except these are solid pads as opposed to pasting or liquid solutions. We think the Thermal Grizzly's Carbonaut is one of the best options on the market. This can be used on both processors and GPUs too. The application of thermal pads involves placing the pad on top of the CPU IHS, thereby filling the gap between the IHS and the heatsink. watt HamsterCertain batches had problems with material separation that Arctic was apparently unable to solve.I've experienced that first hand.

And yeah they were not sponsored by/for the frame, but they repeatedly were sponsored by/for the thermal paste.You said sponsored, they aren't sponsored. They run ads from various manufacturers, that's different. Remember that the Tom's Hardware legacy TIM chart shows all conventional thermal greases (non liquid metal) to be in a very, very narrow performance range about 3-4 degrees Celsius. As you can see, the Arctic MX-6 is the winner of this comparison, taking 0.7 degrees from the excellent Noctua NT-H2 and 1.9 degrees Celsius from the CORSAIR TM30, which is not bad thermal paste either. Of course, in terms of performance, it seems that Arctic has done an excellent job again.Many competitors quote values above 4 W/mK to suggest better performance. It often leads to false expectations and dissatisfied users. I've now started using a line down the longer length of the CPU instead and the spread comes out much better. I've found MX-4 and NT-H1 to stay effective for longer before needing repasting. And honestly between all high performance thermal pastes I don't think you are looking at that much of a difference in performance, and its more about how long it lasts, if you get pump-out effect, etc. Got a ton of different answers but OCN was all about CoolerMaster Gel, Thermalright, and Thermal Grizzly.