From the WTF dept: Cooler Grasp’s “AI” thermal paste is available in six completely different colours

We’ve got questions: Cooler Grasp has launched a brand new thermal paste that is left us with extra questions than solutions at this level. In response to the corporate’s itemizing for its new CryoFuze 5 “AI” thermal paste, it’s infused with nano-diamond know-how and is proven in six completely different colours for some motive.

Google translate got here up quick, so we now have no clue why Cooler Grasp is making six colours of thermal paste. Perhaps they serve completely different functions, or have various specs.

If the coloring within the paste serves no objective aside from for aesthetics, it is roughly pointless. As soon as 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 following 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) within the publication’s Finest Thermal Paste of 2024 information. Liquid metallic presents much better thermal conductivity, however comes with its personal set of dangers.

The elephant within the room, after all, is the weird “AI” declare. Nothing a couple of thermal paste is AI, so we now have to hope that that is merely a translation error going from Chinese language to English. Perhaps Cooler Grasp meant it might deal with the brand new wave of AI PCs, however that’d simply be foolish marking as any first rate paste would suffice.

Preliminary criticism apart, it seems like Cooler Grasp has a good paste on its fingers based mostly on the claimed thermal conductivity coefficient. It might assist fans wick extra warmth away from their processor, which might result in increased increase clocks or extra secure handbook overclocks.

Cooler Grasp 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.