Gelid gc extreme (tc-gc-03

Today we bring you a different review, about a thermal paste that although veteran, the Gelid GC Extreme, which remains a benchmark for the height of the most popular thermal pastes on the market, ideal for trying to obtain the lowest temperatures for the good of our components, maximum overclock, or the work we do.

Technical characteristics

GELID GC EXTREME TECHNICAL FEATURES
Density	3.73
Content (gr)	3.5
Conductivity (w / mk)	8.5
Viscosity	85000
Price	€ 8.99

Gelid GC Extreme ( TC-GC-03-A)

As we were saying, this veteran paste stands out for lacking electrical conductivity, as well as being non-corrosive or toxic and "friendly" with the environment, with a shape and density similar to the well-known Arctic MX-4 as well as its wall light.

It comes with a practical reusable plastic spatula to apply our paste and leave as little trace as possible around what we don't want it to cover. We leave some images and see the composition and how it should be a correct finish.

As we were saying, the tube contains approximately enough to apply to 3 to 5 pieces of equipment, that is, graphics or processors depending on their size, it is always better to sin a little than a lot, since when placing our heatsink we are not interested in the fact that a lot of it is outside it, taking the heat to where we don't want to

It is enough to make a very thin layer, and pulling to the center, leaving the edges with practically no content so that when placing our heatsink, it distributes the paste evenly and the paste protrudes as little as possible. That is what interests us, a fine contact between heatsink and component.

We apply the thermal paste

We spread over the entire surface

For our tests, we have used a Gigabyte R9 390 graphics card, which you can see in its review on our website, whose card works at a frequency of 1025Mhz for the GPU, and we will compare it with the one it brings from the factory and another great paste that It is the Prolimatech PK-2 of density and apply similar.

We have prepared two tests, the first that will consist of a "long idle" or what amounts to the same thing, prolonged rest to see our lowest temperatures on our desktop, and the second to finish, with the Msi program, the Kombustor, to determine its highest temperature in a time of 600 seconds, thus simulating a constant temperature, and of long duration.

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	i5-4690k.
Base plate:	Asus Z97M-Plus.
Memory:	Geil Evo Potenza @ 2666Mhz.
Heatsink	Be Quiet Dark Rock 3.
HDD	Transcend M. " MT800 256Gb. Sata interface.
Graphics Card	Gigabyte R9 390 G1 Gaming 1025 / 1500Mhz. OC 1090 / 1640Mhz.
Power supply	Corsair CS550M 550W.

Final words and conclusions

As we can see, both pastas behave in an excellent way, improving in itself a good pasta that you bring from home. The temperatures at rest hardly changed, since it is a figure in itself difficult to improve, managed to obtain a degree of improvement with respect to the PK-2 and the series.

Things change in our prepared test, improving temperatures considerably to be a new but high-temperature graphics card, dropping from the standard 77ºC to a fantastic 73ºC. It was not only the final temperature but the time to reach it, was increased considerably, therefore for great moments of play or work, it is a candidate series to improve our temperatures, polishing that overclock that was half left for our liquid or air, or replace the old paste of our graphics or processor.