Most CPU coolers come accompanied with thermal paste provided by the manufacturer. For our CPU cooling tests we use the paste that was provided with the kit. If there was none provided then it will be substituted with our favoured paste, Arctic Cooling MX-4.
This test was run at maximum fan speed with the CPU overclocked to 4.5GHz.
The paste included with the kit is not a bad paste. It smoothed out quite well but as the test results show, is not quite as good as other TIM on the market.
