Cooler Master New Edition MasterGel Regular High Performance Thermal Paste w/ Exclusive Flat-Nozzle Syringe Design for CPU and GPU

like many i jumped on the thermal grizzly kryonaut bandwagon. i used kryonaut as my primarily paste since 2017 until now when i finally got tired of its not so great durability. i've owned a handful of tubes of it and performance after a few months starts to degrade with the paste drying up like dried toothpaste overtime after application. it was about every 4 - 7 months I would have to reapply it. my last application of it was barely a month old with my 9900k and towards the end of the month my temps went up 4c from the initial application. when I went to clean it off to apply mastergel, the kyronaut paste like clockwork was already nearly dried up like toothpaste.after searching about it I ran across a reddit post that was talking about the same problem I have been having with kryonaut over the years and saw that der8auer actually replied back saying kryonaut will start to degrade, dry up, at temps around 80c. that's way below its "-250c / +350c" range its spec for on its spec sheet. i was also surprised because the highest temps my 9900k would get to is around 70c mark worst case, 30c below its max temp. gaming and anything else outside prime95, 40-60c. with idles as low as 25c.so after that i decided to search for a replacement and came across cooler masters mastergel maker. i only found a few reviews for it but they were all positive and read some comments about it on overclock.net and a few other enthusiast sites. the general consensus from users who actually tried it were all positive. its durability appeared to be rock solid and its performance appeared to rival kryonaut after initial kryonaut application. its not as popular as other pastes but it seemed like a not-so-famous paste that's actually really good. so i ordered it to give it a try.and man am i happy i bought this paste. its super easy to apply. not to thick but not to runny and you get so much of it compared to the small little half gram tubes from kryonaut. yeah kryonaut has a bigger tube option but its really pricey. performance of mastergel has been topnotch. completely equivalent to the performance of initial application of kryonaut. i could say mastergel is better because my temps are actually about 2c lower than kryonaut was at initial application but to me that's within margin of error. and more importantly its durability so far has been great. its been holding up strong with no signs of dryness or performance degradation.i like it so much i went ahead and re-pasted my gigabyte 2070 super with it. one "issue" i've seen about mastergel maker is that it uses "nano diamond particles" and some people were concerned of it "scratching / pitting" the bare cpu / gpu die from the particles like other popular "nano diamond" based pastes. i couldn't find anyone complaining of it actually happening to them with this paste but rather I could only find concerns about it. i saw that cooler master made an effort to go out of their way to state and stress its not "erosive" and that they recommend to use it on "cpu's, GPU's, and CHIPSET'S."nevertheless i was a bit concerned about it and decided to test it first on an older gpu i had laying around. i thoroughly cleaned its die and heatsink spotlessly and applied a fair amount of mastergel to it using the "X" pattern. torqued down its cooler, then removed it to check it. after cleaning it i inspected it thoroughly and couldn't find any scratches, pits, or anything on it. it was a near perfect mirror. completely spotless. nothing on the heatsink, nothing on the gpu die. i then decided to be more aggressive about it and i decided to go crazy with the spatula it came with. i applied a massive blob of it and went to town with the spatula. i moved the paste around like i was making scrambles eggs, smacked it, stabbed it, placed my thumb at the tip of it and applied heavy pressure to it to move it around, etc. then cleaned it off with pre-moist alcohol wipes and this time rubbed harder than i normally would ever do and absolutely nothing to the die. it was perfect.so after that it made me feel extremely confident enough to apply it to my 2070 super and i'm glad i did. i knocked off 2-3c. i simply can't recommend mastergel maker enough. its a great paste and deserves more recognition. i love it.

I used the nano-diamond version. Works great! Easy spreading, good thermal characteristics for both CPU heatsinks and smaller heatsinks on other electronics. I have repasted two thinkpad laptops, a T480 (2018) and an X230 (2012). The t480 allowed for an increase of 10W sustained power usage on CPU-only loads with power targets, tuning, and duration unlocked on an i7-8650U, from ~27W to ~38W. I haven't taken such good data with the X230, but considering I was using it up to 100C for extended periods with the original thermal paste doing stuff it shouldn't be able to handle, all I noticed was a drop in steady temperature, from 100C to about 87C at full load for long periods, if I remember correctly.I also used this paste to heatsink many large chips on various hardware, for example the FPGA, microcontroller, and LMS7002 SDR frontend chip on a LimeSDR board, reducing idle temperatures from 40-50C to 30C and similar reduction under load, lowering the thermal noise floor. The paste seems to stick just fine to plastic IC packaging and both copper and aluminum heatsinks.

It works! On my AMD A9, there was no compound whatsoever from the OEM: I needed caulk, but only gray and not the cheap.This Cooler Master is an industry-leading name brand with Nano-Particles that leave my AMD A9 chipset running fast and efficient; meaning this isn't only a thermal 'grease/compound' but nano-particles that conduct safely for a much cooler-running chipset.My A9 AMD is, as brand-new, running fairly hot on my lap; Not ANYMORE WHATSOEVER with Cooler Master.The Laptop is always cool, running performance, and increased clock-speeds; not to mention, i had an issue with a Software Driver upgrade, brand-new out-of-the-box, not even 2Weeks, and my chipped 'popped'. Yes, popped.Well, Cooler Master did good and saved the day on the AMD chipset; without it i could have even lost the laptop because of some ca-rinky-dink Software Graphics Driver that wouldn't upgrade to the latest version.When i purchase a new investment, i like it to run for a while without any problems, so out-of-the-box i upgrade all software and as-needed, software like RAM memory before i start routine use because i travel and need the thing to run efficiently.I think Cooler Master helped improve my Battery Life also because i don't experience 'heating' or the hurtful 'overheating' at all, i run cold with nano-particles using an industry standard Cooler Master, been around since the 1990's with performance Gaming componentry for chipsets and cooling.

This is a very good product it has lowered by temperatures an average of 325 degrees on my CPU and on my GPU it's easy to spread over all a good product there's not much to say about it it does what it's supposed to

First off, the label does only state 'maker' not 'maker nano' but don't worry, the box correctly states the paste had nanoparticle additives.Usage and performance: The compound is very easy to spread across the CPU IHS and you will get good coverage with a little patience. This is also one of the best performing compounds and will easily outperform any basic thermal compound that comes pre-applied or in the box with CPU coolers.The bad: I have only one criticism about this product and that is the amount provided. As you can see from the pictures the label is nearly double the length of the compound provided. I did the measurements and there is an inner diameter of 8mm and a total length of 25mm leading to a total volume of 1256ml of thermal paste provided.In conclusion, if you are only looking at performance and do not care about the quantity or value of paste per ml ratio then this is a good buy. But if you do not mind a 1-2C difference in temperature between compounds and want more quantity for your money then look for a trusted brand that offers much more paste.