OCZ didn't go crazy with the amount of thermal compound they put into it, which is the way to go, no use purchasing a load of thermal grease when your only going to be applying it a few times. If you were told about 2 years ago that a company have released overclocking specific thermal compound, it would seem silly. Now days, however, these sort of ideas drive the overclocking industry. Whether or not this OCZ thermal compound makes any difference in cooling is another matter. The two methods currently in use are heat pads or thermal compound.
Thermal compound is generally the most effective out of the two.
Although we have seen many types of thermal compounds in many different types of packaging, nothing I have used comes close to the ease and efficiency of the OCZ Quicksilver when installing. Simply place the tip of the syringe to the desired spot, and squeeze. This leaves the cpu surroundings clean and untouched. To test the OCZ Quicksilver thermal compound, we used a Duron 700 system. To compare, we used ordinary white thermal compound.