 What's up internet? One of the easiest ways to lower the temperatures of your CPU is to use a quality thermal paste. In problema, 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. And so for this video, we're gonna be doing a roundup of six different thermal pastes from different manufacturers at different price points and 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 Cooler Master Master Gel Pro, Deep Cool Z3, everyone's favorite Noctua NTH1, the Noctua NTH2, Arctic MX2, and Arctic MX4. The Arctic thermal pastes were provided by Arctic but everything else was taken from our shop inventory. 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The motherboard was a Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC and the software used to stress test the CPU was RealBench from ASUS. RealBench 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 would 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 a 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. Di ralaw na dada 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 pastes. The upper down of 1 degree was a negligible difference. These are 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 pastes 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 pastes even the cheapest CM MasterGel Pro could handle the temperature. Things get more interesting when we do the overclock and here we can clearly see the Arctic MX-4 edging out the competition. Its 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 its performance is not as good as I expected it to be and disappointingly benchmarked against some of its other peers. So the da pa rinaw ng da-da, 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 Deco Z3 is an excellent budget thermal paste. If you want to splurge a little bit then everyone's favorite Noctua 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 MX-4 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 had to keep redoing the test setup every time we changed the thermal paste. So this is my roundabout way of saying 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 as 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 Ongkinko, Leah Magnaya and Dom H. Maraming, maraming salamat po.