33-Way Thermal Interface Material Comparison

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33-Way TIM Comparison
Benchmark Reviews has seen a lot of products made for the purpose of delivering better performance. Some of these products exist for overclockers and enthusiasts, and often times help deliver performance out of otherwise tame hardware. Other products sometimes only deliver the empty marketing claim of improvements. Of all the products we have seen and tested, one particular category always stands out as the culprit for over-hyped promises: Thermal Interface Material (TIM). Of all the heatsink compounds and thermal pastes made and marketed, they must all only concentrate themselves to deliver the simple function of mating the CPU to the cooler with the highest thermal conductivity possible. Of course, some work better than others, and this is exactly what Benchmark Reviews intends to discover. Please join us for a comprehensive testing of 33 different TIM products.​
In this 33-way Thermal Interface Material (TIM) performance test, we give equal attention to what could be the largest collection of heatsink grease, thermal paste, interface material, and thermal compound any test has ever seen in one comparison review article. The market is rife with fakes and wanna-be's, which is why it's our duty to ensure that only a very select few products receive the Benchmark Reviews seal of approval.​
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Thermal Interface Materials Tested

  1. Antec Formula 5 Silver Thermal Compound (1)​
  2. Arctic Cooling MX-1 Thermal Compound (0)​
  3. Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (0)​
  4. Arctic Silver II Silver Thermal Compound (2)​
  5. Arctic Silver 3 Silver Thermal Compound (3)​
  6. Arctic Silver 5 Polysynthetic Thermal Compound (4)​
  7. Arctic Silver Ceramique (5)​
  8. Arctic Silver Lumiere (0)​
  9. Cooler Master HTK-002 Thermal Grease (0)​
  10. FrozenCPU Copper Thermal Compound (0)​
  11. Innovative Cooling Seven Carat Diamond (6)​
  12. Jetart CK4000 (0)​
  13. Jetart Thermal Compound (0)​
  14. Masscool Fanner-420 (0)​
  15. Masscool AK-100 Stars Heatsink Compound (0)​
  16. Noctua NT-H1 (0)​
  17. OCZ Freeze (0)​
  18. Rosewill RCX-TC050 (0)​
  19. Shin Etsu G751 (0)​
  20. Shin-Etsu Microsi Silicon Compound (0)​
  21. Shin-Etsu X-23-7762 (0)​
  22. SIL Heatsink Compound (0)​
  23. Stars 612 Copper Grease (0)​
  24. Startech Silver Grease (0)​
  25. Thermalright Chill Factor (0)​
  26. TIM Consultants T-C Grease 0098 (0)​
  27. Tuniq TX-2 (0)​
  28. Ultra Thermal Compound (0)​
  29. Xigmatek PTI-G3801 (0)​
  30. Zalman ZM-TG2 Thermal Grease (0)​
  31. Zaward HSC-W (0)​
  32. Zaward HSC-G (0)​
  33. ZEROtherm ZT-100 (0)​
TIM Mega-Roundup Conclusion
My biggest regret is not having a more powerful test system, and by system I don't mean computer hardware. You see, even with a heavy overclock on the most modern processor there just isn't enough heat produced to create a clearly evident divide between products. Telling the difference between products producing less than one degree of temperature variance isn't a perfectly accurate method, which is why a heat source that approaches boiling point would be best. Until that day arrives, you will have the better part of three days worth of testing to prove the point.

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Telling the difference between products producing less than one degree of temperature variance isn't a perfectly accurate method, which is why a heat source that approaches boiling point would be best.
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This can be done in some older graphic cards right?
 
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