Thermal Compound Roundup – October 2011

Conclusions

The big surprise of this month was the performance of the mayonnaise as a thermal compound. It worked superbly, showing better performance than some well-known high-performance thermal greases. Again, we cannot determine how long it should remain effective, but in the short term, mayonnaise was the best alternative thermal compound we have seen so far.

All the “true” thermal compounds we tested this time performed within the normal curve. We can highlight that the Akasa 455 had the same performance as the Akasa 450, and the Arctic Silver Céramique 2 performed worse than the Céramique older model.

Please keep in mind that those results are valid only for the hardware we used, and with a different situation with different CPUs and cooler models, the thermal compounds can behave differently.