Gelid Solutions GC Extreme Thermal Paste: Optimal Cooling for High-Performance Systems Review

All in all, a great thermo! Especially for fans of extreme sports. She looks different now. Such a rebrand. With its pros: Thermal conductivity 8.5 W/mK! Does not degrade from temperatures above 70, does not dry under the sole of the cooler. Its cons: It is quite thick, it is reluctant to smear, but this is due to such a thick consistency such a high thermal conductivity.

I've been using this for years on every GPU and CPU I've had with great results. I've tried so many TIMs over the last 25 years and this one consistently tops the charts. It doesn't corrode. It's not colored. But it's a bit bulky compared to other TIMs, which I like a lot. Why? Some GPU and CPU heatsinks, although rare, have a slightly uneven mating surface, or the manufacturing tolerances aren't tight enough, or it's possible that the GPU or laptop heatsink had a manufacturing defect that…

Based on the reviews I bought a 3.5g product or a counterfeit product(?). But that thermal paste sucks. The packaging was original. I applied this to a new NZXT Kraken x52 AIO heatsink on a new Ryzen 3950x hoping to get a few degrees of cooling from stock. Immediately the car started to throttle at a higher temperature. Previous temps were 45C/78C max. It immediately jumped to 52C/82C max. The main concern was that the machine was much noisier, the fans would turn on at the slightest…

This material is a real find. I don't know how this compares to some other, more "extreme" TIM solutions, but in my comparative tests it absolutely outperforms AS5. I use a Corsair Hydro Series H110i GTX cooling system. After issues with my warranty EVGA motherboard EVGA X99 Classified Intel Socket LGA 2011-3 DDR4 2666MHz motherboard 151-HE-E999-KR which replaced EVGA with no fuss. I needed to redo TIM on my Intel i7-5830k Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W…