cooler master master gel

[ahuckphin]

Is this a bad quality thermal paste?

 

Compared to the ridiculously affordable thermal paste from eBay, no difference with Pentium 4 or i5-3570. 

 

But with laptops, compared to factory applied compound, temperatures drop slightly but fans are always near maximum. Experienced this behaviour with a 6 year old Toshiba and a 4 year old Lenovo. 

 

If this is a bad thermal paste, can one suggest a significantly better one at a not significantly price difference. 

[Firewrath9]

I like MX4, or Noctua NT-H1.

[waterjug]

The cooler master I think is pretty reputable quality thermal paste. There are probably better brands tho.

Also how are you using thermal paste on a laptop? Isn't it all glued together? I'd assume if you tore it apart and put it back together you might have a performance decrease.

[LukeSavenije]

it doesn't make that much of a difference, but afaik it's a okay quality paste

 

the market leader rn is conductonaut, but that one isn't going to be cheap (at all)

[ahuckphin]

5 minutes ago, waterjug said:

The cooler master I think is pretty reputable quality thermal paste. There are probably better brands tho.

Also how are you using thermal paste on a laptop? Isn't it all glued together? I'd assume if you tore it apart and put it back together you might have a performance decrease.

With the Toshiba, I had to perform a complete disassembly of the machine for a repaste while the Lenovo was a simple remove bottom lid and heatsink/fan affair.  

[waterjug]

1 minute ago, bindydad123 said:

With the Toshiba, I had to perform a complete disassembly of the machine for a repaste while the Lenovo was a simple remove bottom lid and heatsink/fan affair.  

ah

[thinwalrus]

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut does well in tests.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-comparison,5108.html