GELID Xtreme & GC2 Thermal Paste

TESTING METHODOLOGY

No real need to get into great detail of the testing methods, you can see them

HERE

in my Thermal Paste Round Up. The only reason why the newer GELID thermal Pastes were not included I received these tubes of thermal pastes shortly after I typed up the Round Up. I should also mention the GELID GC1, is end of life, and has been replaced by these two newer thermal pastes by GELID.

I will run LinX a total of 4 times to verify my temperatures, 1 is a quick burn in to make sure my thermal paste was used correctly. The other 3 runs of LinX were used for actual recording which i ran 20 loops per run. The hottest core reached was the temperature I recorded. I will only include 1 Screen shot of the best temperature achieved out of the 2 thermal pastes tested. The other 2 thermal pastes are just here for a comparison.

these next few images are to re-affirm that my CPU IHS is still polished, and the CPU cooler is still polished. This is the CPU water block base. As we can see it is still very well polished. The higher polish we have on our CPU coolers base the better temps we will get.

The CPU IHS face, again this is still fairly polished. Same rules apply here as the CPU cooler, the flatter and more polished we get this the better our temperatures will be.

Application of the thermal pastes, this how I applied both GC2 and the Xtreme thermal pastes on my CPU.

Thermal paste dispersion, I use this pattern on putting my thermal paste onto my CPU, because it gives me the best results for what I need. Your specific needs may/or may not be the same way on applying thermal paste. Try different ways and use what is best for your computer.

RESULTS

Idle Load

Starting off on the idle temperatures, we can see that the GC2, and the Xtreme thermal pastes do very well on keeping my temperatures down. The GELID Solutions Xtreme thermal paste did do better by dropping 1°C lower then the GC2, and 2°C lower then the GC1. A lot of you probably wondering 1/2°C is not a whole lot of a difference. Well in actuality is not, but I have came to a point where trying to drop a single degree on my CPU is a lot of work. So your results will very from my own in actual temperature's. Now lets move onto the full load temperatures.

Full Load

Now warming up the CPU on a full load while at a 3.8GHz speed. The GC2 and the GC1 both tie one another in all out temperatures. The GELID Xtreme thermal Paste dropped my temperatures by another 2°C giving me a total of 54°C on a full load. Now I thought this was strange myself, so I did what everyone else would have done, re-applied thermal paste, and re-ran LinX to verify temperatures. I kept getting the same result of 54°C. I don't know about you, but this is definitely making progress.

Screen Shot

This is a screen shot of the Xtreme thermal paste run. As we can see this thermal paste does absolutely wonderful on helping transferring the heat of the CPU to the CPU water block.