Review on 🧊 Arctic Silver Ceramique CMQ2 2 7G Thermal Compound by Brock Chisholm

Not a bad thing. I was surprised at how tiny the tube was, only about 2 inches including the bulb. I recently ordered a very cheap pasta from China, 30g for only two dollars. This was normal for low TDP hardware like my AMD Athlon II dual-core processor and my Geforce 210 in my HTPC, but I recently got it on my gaming PC's processor. My gaming PC now has an Intel Xeon w3690 @ 3.4 GHz processor with 6 cores and 12 threads and a TDP of around 180 W. This thing puts out a lot of heat, with the cheap Chinese stuff I've got at 55 degrees Celsius idling and under about 60% load playing Fallout 4 I've seen temperatures in the mid 70's. I ordered this and it arrived yesterday so I cleaned the cheap one up and put some on. I ran some stress tests with Prime95 to "burn it out" and left it completely off overnight to let things settle down. When I turned on my computer today, I saw that my idle temp was 38C! As we speak, I'm running Prime95 and my CPU is at 100% utilization, my temperature is 71-72C with the CPU fan on, so overall a definite improvement. These temperatures are perfectly fine with this chip, don't worry, it's a bit different than the consumer desktop chips most of us are used to and I don't see any thermal throttling under full load at this temperature, it works. at a full clock speed of over 3.5 GHz, which is fantastic. I believe those old Xeons have maximum operating temps in the 90's. Previous temperatures were okay, but higher than usual temperatures kept my CPU fan running at 100% and it was very noisy, so I basically did that to prevent my fan from always running at maximum when I was doing something games I highly recommend this composition, it works very well.