Yesterday at X, Cooler Master decided to showcase its latest CryoFuze 5 thermal paste series, using all six available colors to create a landscape on an existing 13th Gen Intel CPU and a Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master motherboard.
There was some controversy surrounding a machine translation error that caused some people to think the product was called “Cooler Master CryoFuze 5 AI Thermal Paste,” when the original text actually said that the nanodiamond thermal paste should be good enough for high-performance CPUs with integrated NPUs.
Just a happy little landscape, thanks to our Cyrofuse thermal paste.🎨@AORUS_NA #pcmr pic.twitter.com/1Tki9alnVc27 August 2024
The six colors used for the image above are also shown below in more reasonable pea-shaped sizes. Those colors are red, blue, yellow, white, green, and black. And of course, neither the thermal paste configuration recorded above nor the one shown below should be considered a practical use case for a single CPU—colored thermal paste is generally just a tiny frill on an otherwise standard, nearly invisible part of everyday PC builds.
While the two thermal paste configurations highlighted by Cooler Master for its CryoFuze 5 thermal paste look pretty cool (no pun intended), we’d like to take a moment to remind users of the proper way to apply thermal paste to their CPU.
It is usually best to squeeze out a pea-sized amount for most CPUs, or even several “grains of rice” in a grid shape for larger processors. While you will need thermal paste or other TIM (Thermal Interface Material) to cover the entire CPU, you also want it to be evenly distributed and have a thin Layer that transfers heat as directly as possible. Too much paste or unevenly applied paste can cause thermal problems with your CPU.
Still, it’s pretty amusing to see how Cooler Master has taken their super-performance CryoFuze 5 thermal paste and various color variants this far. On paper, the thermal paste has what it takes to compete with the best thermal pastes on the market, but of course, it’s not comparable to something like liquid metal TIM (although using that comes with much greater risks than standard thermal paste).
