When you’re building a gaming rig, choosing the right set of components is critical to determine how smoothly your machine runs. Performance will diminish and possibly damage your hardware if your cooling isn’t optimal. The Ultra Series Thermal Paste from is easy to apply, efficient and it works.
Use it on your CPU air or AIO cooler but it’s not just for CPUs. The Ultra Series paste works well for any heat syncs anywhere inside your box. Water cooling or liquid cooling systems are all the rage for overclocking CPUs and video cards alike, but it won’t do you as much good if you don’t have good heat conductivity.
Technical Specs
Density 3,4g/cm
Operating temp -50 ~ 300 °C
Application temp 20 ~ 50 °C
Viscosity 240 PAS
Comes in 1g, 2g, 4g, 10g, 25g, 50g sizes
Thermal Hero has provided us with the Ultra Thermal Paste so that we could provide hands on review coverage of the unit and our personal experiences with it to our readers. Our reviews are for educational and informational purposes only.
How to Apply
There are plenty of How To video’s out there on how to much thermal paste to apply but it’s important not to put too much. A little goes a long way. After cleaning the surface with alcohol pad or q-tip, put a small amount of thermal paste roughly the size of a grain of rice at the center.
Remember that once you apply paste on the processor, your CPU air cooler or water block will be flattening and spreading out the thermal paste to a thin layer. If you put too much, you’ll end up squeezing out a mess onto your motherboard.
There is a small spatula supplied which you can use to pre-spread it but it’s not necessary. Just make sure you gently place your cooler on in a single motion (as much as possible, try not to re-seat/adjust it multiple times) and clamp it down. If necessary, make a few dry runs first to practice the method.
Our Experience
We’ve re-seated the air cooler on our AMD chip with good results. After a good alcohol wipe of the old Arctic Silver which had performed flawlessly over 4 years it was time to re-apply.
The Arctic Silver had degraded beyond usability in the tube. How do you know when your thermal paste went bad? The paste lost its viscosity and became a bit watery. Typically you’ll have a shelf life of about 4-5 years.
Thermal Hero’s Ultra Series Thermal Paste seems to perform very well. Our idle temps have dropped and hovers at approx 36-37 degrees; under load while gaming the temps remain under 50 degrees Celsius. We will continue to monitor temps as we always do and report back if the paste fails or degrades in anyway.
On an air cooled system, ambient room temps impact much more, so think of this in terms of temperature range. Your results may vary. Hardware, cooling systems, case fans, ambient temp etc can all add variances to the measurement.
That’s a wrap
When building a rig using the right components is important but how you “glue” them together matters too. The Ultra Series thermal paste gives excellent performance to keep operating temperatures down; efficiency of heat reduction often translates to speed.
Thermal Hero’s Ultra Series Thermal Paste performs well for heat sync applications for your CPU, GPU, M2 drives. Easily applied with a disposable syringe, they are also available in larger sizes with the use of a thermal paste gun.
TH-301301 – 1g Thermal Hero Ultra Series Thermal Paste – TH-301302 – 2g, TH-301304 – 4g, TH-301310 – 10g, TH-301325 – 25g, TH-301350G – 50g
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