Arctic Silver 5 AS5-3.5G Thermal Paste

The heat sink and cpu are well connected and staying cool.

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This thermal paste is definitely one of the best out there. There are some that you can find that perform slightly better, maybe within 1 to 2°C better, but for a much higher price per gram. This is a much better bang for your buck and is still high performance.

As always quality shines through in this cpu grease.

Noticed temps were 1-3 degrees C cooler once I used it over the previously used OEM paste in my Alienware M17x. Plenty to use in a later build as well.

Just as it should....it keeps the processor nice and cool....good nice thick compound but not over thick, easy to spread but still nice and tacky. What more can you say, my temps stay low even under heavy load when playing games. Windows 7 Pro 64bit, 16g of ram, Geforce GTX 650, Dell Precision 490 with Dual processor sockets each with Quad Core 2.7ghz processors (non HT, 8 cores total). Temps even when taxing cores at 100% load is always less that 110 degrees. This stuff with my giant heat sinks works perfectly. Pic attached of my two heat sinks and 8 sticks or ram at 2gs each.

this stuff is awasome and worth every penny if your building/upgrading a pc

as described, DO NOT install a CPU with out it

Applies easily, but with appropriate viscous resistance. Works A+

As some other people have mentioned, you get a tube in a plastic baggie which isnt retail packaging. Besides that, this paste doesnt behave like Arctic Silver should. I last repasted my CPU about 10 months ago with whatever this is, and had to repaste it again today because the paste had completely dried crusty and temps were getting hot.