What's up internet? One of the easiest ways to lower the temperatures of your CPU is to use a quality thermal paste. In problem, it's kind of hard to figure out which thermal paste to use because there are so many of them on the market. Tapos iba iba pa yung presyo nila. At a certain point, you just want someone to shove something in front of your face and tell you this is the one you want, this is the one you buy, this is the one you use. For this video, we're going to be doing a roundup of 6 different thermal paste from different manufacturers at different price points. We'll see if the more expensive one is better or if you can get away with using a more value oriented thermal paste. For this roundup, we have the Kudermaster Master Gel Pro, Deep Cool Z3, everyone's favorite, notewa NTH1, the notewa NTH2, Arctic MX2 and Arctic MX4. The Arctic thermal paste were provided by Arctic but everything else was taken from our shop inventory. 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The motherboard was a gigabyte, B550M, DS3HAC, and the software used to stress test the CPU was real bench from ASUS. Real bench does a good job of simulating real-world operating conditions, instead of more synthetic or artificial benchmarks, which do stress out the CPU, but they don't accurately reflect computations or operations which should normally arrive in real-world day-to-day settings. For all of our testing, the CPU fan speed was set at 100%, and we took two measurements for each thermal paste. One was at the base speed of 3.6 GHz after running on 100% load for 30 minutes, and the other one was at an overclock. We managed to get a stable overclock at 4.2 GHz, which is around a 20% increase, so we ran that also for 30 minutes at 100% CPU load, and then we took the temperatures. Did I learn on the day? But you guys just want to know the results, so here they are. At the base speed of 3.6 GHz, actually the results were shockingly close. In fact, there really was no difference between any of the thermal paste. The upper down of one degree was a negligible difference. The max temps reached by each thermal paste, and yes, while the Nokia NTH1 did edge out everyone, again, it's a very small difference. So what we're seeing here is that all of the thermal paste we tried out can handle the thermal output of an R33100 operating at normal speed. Yes, we did have it at 100% for 30 minutes, which is a bit uncommon, but even then, all of the thermal paste, even the cheapest CM, Master Gel Pro, could handle the temperature. It's more interesting when we do the overclock, and here we can clearly see the Arctic MX4 edging out the competition. It's max temp only reached 87 degrees, which is a little toasty, but cooler than everybody else, and really not a bad performance, considering that we're achieving around a 20% increase from the CPU. To be honest, I'm kind of disappointed in the NTH2. I don't know what happened here, why it's performance is not as good as I expected it to be. And disappointingly, Benchmarked again some of its other peers. So the DAPA Renown and the DAPA, you know, it's like testing setup, methodology, numbers, numbers. If you just want to know who won, or again bottom line, what should you buy? The Deep Cool Z3 is an excellent budget thermal paste. If you want to splurge a little bit, then everyone's favorite, NK2 NTH1, is, you know, the middle man, he really does well in all aspects. The price is quite good too, especially if you get it from us. And finally, if you want to go for performance, the Arctic MX4 beat out all of the other contenders. But really, if you have a mid-range CPU, and you're not going to overclock, then you can get any thermal paste. Again, the cheapest one we had in the Roundup is the cooler master, master gel pro. And even that one managed to keep temperatures within the range of everyone else for testing on normal load. So, you know, if you're not going to do anything nuts with your CPU, and you know, it's a very mid-range CPU, then any thermal paste from this Roundup will serve you well. So this is the first time we've done this kind of thing, a very in-depth testing of multiple brands. And you know, we have to keep redoing the test setup every time we change the thermal paste. So this is my roundabout way of seeing. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve the setup, then please do let us know in the comments so that we can incorporate them into future Roundups. And well, let's just get better in general in comparing contrasting hardware and things to look out for while testing. But I hope you found this roundup useful, and thanks for watching. Thanks for watching Internet and special thanks to our top fans, Christian Espinosa, John Ruben Ocha, ITX Addict, Ian Meru, Richard Ong Kingko, Leah Magnaie and Dom H. Maraming, Maraming, Salamat po.