We have questions: Cooler Master has launched a brand new thermal paste that is left us with extra questions than solutions at this level. According to the firm’s itemizing for its new CryoFuze 5 “AI” thermal paste, it’s infused with nano-diamond expertise and is proven in six different colors for some purpose.
Google translate got here up brief, so we now have no clue why Cooler Master is making six colors of thermal paste. Maybe they serve different functions, or have various specs.
If the coloring in the paste serves no objective aside from for aesthetics, it is roughly pointless. Once thermal paste is put in, it is out of sight and out of thoughts – by no means to be seen once more (properly, not till the subsequent time you take away your heatsink, anyway).
Tom’s Hardware was capable of decide the paste additionally makes use of aluminum powder and zinc oxide, and claims a thermal conductivity coefficient of 12.6 W/mK. If correct, that’d make it the second greatest standard thermal paste (on paper) in the publication’s Best Thermal Paste of 2024 information. Liquid steel affords much better thermal conductivity, however comes with its personal set of dangers.
The elephant in the room, in fact, is the weird “AI” declare. Nothing a few thermal paste is AI, so we now have to hope that that is merely a translation error going from Chinese to English. Maybe Cooler Master meant it may deal with the new wave of AI PCs, however that’d simply be foolish marking as any first rate paste would suffice.
Initial criticism apart, it feels like Cooler Master has an honest paste on its palms based mostly on the claimed thermal conductivity coefficient. It may assist lovers wick extra warmth away from their processor, which may result in increased increase clocks or extra secure handbook overclocks.
Cooler Master additionally says the paste is nice to function in temperatures from -50 levels Celsius to 240 levels Celsius, making it price a glance by excessive overclockers.