Performance
For this review, I’ve deployed the SilverStone Tundra Series TD03-Lite AIO CPU Cooler. If you would like to know more about this cooler and its performance, you can check out the full review here. It’s a simple 120mm slim radiator, and I found it to be a stable cooler that can keep a good constant fan speed at load, giving us a good representation of cooling difference.
I’ve heard a lot of great things about MasterGel Maker from others in the industry, so I went into this testing with high expectations and I was certainly not disappointed. Maker Gel was almost 1 full degree cooler than our current leader at stock temperatures, just beating out Gelid GC Extreme. Of course, at stock clocks, any of these thermal pastes tested are doing a great job, but a 4c difference between Artic Silver 5 and Maker does not go unnoticed and could mean your cooler can operate with a lower fan RPM and less noise.
Now that we’ve got some serious heat on, the Maker is still giving us the coolest temperatures, now beating out Gelid by 2 degrees and 0.6c cooler than Grizzly. This is, of course, within a margin of error, but if it’s not actually better, it’s at least as good as the rest and that’s something Cooler Master can be proud of. We’re now a full 7c cooler than the Ectotherm paste and that’s a huge difference, showing how picking the right paste can make or break your overclocking targets.
It could be a great alternative for extremely popular mx-4 thermal compound, however needs to be cheaper. While this one cost £9.99/4ml tube, for only £13.75 (ebay UK) we can get mx-4 in 20g tube!
Scraper and cleaner wipe aren’t very necessary to buy with every tube and they may be replaced by other things we currently got at home / workshop – that price would drop a bit without those equipment…
vs. http://www.coollaboratory.com/de/produkte/liquid-ultra/ ?
Why do people keep packaging this stuff with spreaders.. that is the worst possible way to apply thermal paste.
Not to mention how they highly advise and suggest the people to do it that way.
Are you sure you applied to pastes correctly? Not meaning to be rude, it’s just that the Grizzly TIM usually shows a decent temp difference than Noctua NT-H1 on other benchmarks of top TIM lists. Where as it was showing the same temps in your benchmarks.
I just kind of doubt that a nanodiamond based TIM is better than the top performing non liquid metal based TIM (Grizzly Kryonaut). I am sure it might be roughly similar to Noctua NT-H1 or if it’s lucky Prolimatech PK-3 and other similar nanodiamond based TIMs.
Overall I am still glad to see they came out with a TIM that competes with the other major high quality TIMs!
I do enjoy Cooler Masters products and use them in my builds so I am happy about this.
I prefer the “minus sign” application method. very effective for 4 core cpus’s and definitely reduces the chance of bubbles forming compared to the “plus sign” application method where bubbles can form at the point of intersection. well it was much easier then any other method worked pretty good for me…twice. Pea shaped application is good only when u have a single core (threads don’t matter).
really make some difference here…nice
Hi,
I realized that Noctua becomes very useless product after 5-6 months. It doesn’t make the heat as stable as first time. And when i open the laptop case seeing that thermal paste looks like flew away. I am looking for very stable, long lasting thermal paste.
Actually is called scraper you scrape old thermal paste with it you noobs .. =))