The paste, also known as the thermal compound, is applied to the top of the CPU's Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) to fill the air gaps that are formed due to the microscopic imperfections on the ...

But the fact is thermal paste does keep CPU and GPU temperatures down and aids performance when it’s applied properly, so getting it right is certainly worth doing. Here we look at how thermal ...

If not, more intensive steps are in order. The thermal paste that transfers heat from your CPU to its cooler might have dried out if you’ve had your PC for a few years. That can cause ...

A thermal paste is a cooling agent (a silvery-gray substance) placed between the processor and the fan that passes the heat from the CPU to keep it cool. To do this, you first need to remove ...

Nvidia's range-topping GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is ready for SFF, to achieve this, Nvidia had to use an all-new cooling ...

Reapplying a fresh layer of thermal paste to a graphics card's GPU is quite easy but dealing with its thermal pads is another matter altogether. Thermal Grizzly reckons it has the perfect solution ...

CPU brackets use a combination of pressure and some sort of thermal media or paste to fill in any gaps between the CPU case and the heat sink. Intel’s LGA1700 bracket is an example, but there ...