Well, as I’m sure most of you were expecting to see, Arctic Silver 5 came out on top, by a few degrees. If you have some Ceramique lying around and aren’t Overclocking every last ounce of juice out of your CPU, then I personally wouldn’t worry about rushing out and buying Arctic Silver 5. However, if you’re on the race to hold the top 3DMark score, or have as many frames as you can in your new first person shooter, and need to overclock as much as you can, then Arctic Silver 5 is for you.

However, both products from Arctic Silver reviewed here have high curing times. Curing is the process of the thermal paste, settling in, so to speak. After so many hours the paste will achieve its best performance, and when using either product I waited a solid week before taking the temperatures. It’s worth the wait!