Specification: Gelid Solutions GC-Extreme 3.5g with Tooling – Thermal Conductive Paste for Heatsink | um Thermal Conductivity | Easy Application | Not Corrosive.
Brand
‎Gelid Solutions
Manufacturer
‎Gelid Solutions
Model
‎TC-GC-03-A
Model Year
‎2010
Product Dimensions
‎4.06 x 1.02 x 4.06 cm, 4 Grams
Batteries
‎1 Unknown batteries required.
Item model number
‎TC-GC-03-A
Number of items
‎1
Colour Screen
‎No
Voltage
‎8.5 Volts
Wattage
‎8.5
Batteries Included
‎No
Batteries Required
‎No
Device type
‎Cooling
Includes Rechargeable Battery
‎No
Country of Origin
‎China
Item Weight
‎4 g
12 reviews for Gelid Solutions GC-Extreme 3.5g with Tooling – Thermal Conductive Paste for Heatsink | um Thermal Conductivity | Easy Application | Not Corrosive.
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Alisson –
I’ve built/maintained quite a few systems in my years and have always just relied on other pastes like arctic etc.
I figured as long as I wasn’t buying absolute junk, I’d be set. Surely it can’t make that much difference, as long as you’re not buying trash – right?
Well, seems I was wrong! I’ve had temperature issues with my laptop pretty much from the get-go, and have replaced the paste and cleaned it out multiple times to limited effect, and after a couple weeks those temps just creep back up.
Well, not with this stuff. I applied a thin layer using the spreader tip it comes with, (a little fiddly but you get the hang of it) and put my machine back together not expecting too much. I figured the reviews might be hyperbole, but I wanted to try this before buying a whole new heatsink.
Well, lo and behold, my temperatures are now stable when gaming and under heavy load. My fans rarely kick up to max speed, when they used to be running at max all the time just to try and maintain. Spikes are down, recovery to ambient is much faster, and my system is quieter.
All this DURING A HEATWAVE! I’m honestly pretty blown away by how effective this compound is. It’s what I’ll be buying and recommending from now on.
TL;DR; Great product, applies relatively easily, does exactly as others suggest. A noticeable impact on the cooling capabilities of my laptop. Highly recommend!
This is great for laptops. It has high viscosity. And it comes in good quantity for the price compared to other options.
Earlier i got my paste replaced at a repair center and they used cryofuze violet. Within three months my laptop was severely throttling and i saw many frame drops even after reducing quality settings. Read a lot of reviews and suggestions about high performance paste for laptops and how they are not suitable, about pump out effect, dry out etc. This has lower conductivity at around 7 while violet has over 12. However, that doesn’t matter when the paste just spills over. This is much more viscous (and harder to apply and spread but manageable). After application I have noticed significant temperature drop in idle. Although my laptop still throttles under load, that’s because of the bad cooling design of asus TUF a15 (2020).
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sb –
I have just used this thermal paste on my Acer 5 laptop’s cpu (i5 8th gen) and gpu (nvidia mx250). The laptop is almost 4 years old and never been repasted. I did not do a proper long running benchmark comparison, but I ran a quick MSI Kombustor and Geekbench 6 benchmark before and after repasting. Here is my result:
More importantly, the temperature rise was less dramatic after repasting. Previously the GPU temp shot up to 75 degree C immediately. Now it is taking about a minute to do so. Though not a big difference, there definitely is an improvement.
I will update my rating after longer use.
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★★★★★
Akshay –
I had an HP omen 15 2021. Which started to heat after ig the stock paste ran out. Tried circling the service center multiple times used mx4, cryonaught. Literally nothing worked. For 4 months it was a pain until I applied Gelid and put an end to my misery. The paste works flawlessly and does the job well. Really I would recommend this paste to be for laptops. It’s viscous enough to withstand the high temperatures. Mx4,cryo they work well but pump out quickly.
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Shirsendu maiti –
I have used may thermal paste over time like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, Noctua NT-H1, Coolermaster Cryofuze. This Product felt like the best value for money which actually out performs some of the above mentioned and performance is some what equal to kryonaut which is double the price now.
The temperature of my laptop was quiet high when i used NT-H1 where CPU reached 97-99 C ( Even reached 100 C) and GPU reached 67 C under GPU and CPU stress test. Under CPU only stress test the temps were around 90-96 C.
After using Gelid the temps dropped significantly to 86-89C on the CPU and 64 C on GPU. Under CPU only stress test the temps were very low 78-84 C.
ROOM TEMP IS 29 C.
My device is Hp Pavilion gaming 16. The problem with this device is it will only kicks the fan to the full speed when the temps reach high and no fan control. So first the temps reaches High enough to turn the fans to the max like it will reach 94 C then stays there for some time and when the fans finally run at full speed the temps some time even reach as low as 80 if the room is cooler for CPU only stress test.
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Must Bisu –
If you want paste for laptop which usually operate in higher Temps you want paste to more viscous. This one is the best for for graphic card and laptops. Significant improvement in Temps from idle 80 degrees to 58 idle. While in load 95 degrees to 87 to 90 degrees depend on cpu load. Though it’s 5900hx max t juncation is around 105 degrees that’s the reason never experienced thermal throttling even before only the Temps and fan noise was kinda scary. Spreading such thick paste can be bit annoying. Make sure to use 99% IPA solution to clean your previous paste and the cpu/gpu before application.
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rani s. –
The thermal paste is so good and easy to apply using the given attachment. I own asus tuf dash f15 in which after rma i was facing a huge performance drop like before I was getting 9k+ cb mc scores but after rma they messed up by applying very cheap thermal paste which caused it to thermal throttle and the scores came to only 6k mc cb r23. Before buying this company replaced the motherboard twice for this issue. Ultimately I tried my bet to apply gelid gc extreme by my own and it was bull’s eye everything is under control nowonwards and the performance is back to normal.
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Must Bisu –
I used GC extreme because it was recommend to me and I’m thankful that i did. I used to hit TJ-Max on both my CPU and GPU as soon as i started playing RDR2 on my laptop. (With AC on at 25/26 degrees)
I finally changed it’s stock thermal paste after 3 months of use. Even though i don’t play much, my stock thermal paste was almost dried out on GPU and CPU.
Pros- 1. Very reasonably priced. 2. Works flawlessly 3. Non-Conductive 4. Much much better than stock thermal paste or the generic thermal paste these companies apply to our laptop in the name of “service”. 5. Heavy games like RDR2 are showing temps under 85 degree Celsius without undervolting/disabling turbo boost, which was not the case for me previously on the stock thermal paste. Idle temp was around 30-40. I’m personally very satisfied. (with AC on at around 26 degree Celsius)
Neutral- 1. Bit difficult to apply but good thermal pastes are generally thick and they are not easy to apply. I have also not done it before so, Kinda new experience for me.
Cons None as of day 1.
Things to note- 1. This is a day one review. Will edit it in the future as the need arises. 2. If you want to have a rough idea about the temps (like really rough) use Hwinfo app and monitor idle/gaming temps. If you Want a better idea run Antutu, 3Dmark and other benchmark tests before and after applying this thermal paste.
If someone is not willing to change the thermal paste themselves (which is fine) ask your laptop service guy to apply this thermal paste (buy it yourself), if the service guy is hesitant tell him that this is non-Conductive thermal paste (it won’t damage the motherboard even if some of it spills on to the motherboard).
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Hossein –
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Thejus V. –
Love the thermal paste.I went down from 78 using mx4 to 64 on my gpu and 10 degrees cooler on cpu!This stuff is legit…. The best thermal paste I have used so far although the application is a little harder but regardless performs excellent.Tested on G703GX.
Alisson –
I’ve built/maintained quite a few systems in my years and have always just relied on other pastes like arctic etc.
I figured as long as I wasn’t buying absolute junk, I’d be set.
Surely it can’t make that much difference, as long as you’re not buying trash – right?
Well, seems I was wrong! I’ve had temperature issues with my laptop pretty much from the get-go, and have replaced the paste and cleaned it out multiple times to limited effect, and after a couple weeks those temps just creep back up.
Well, not with this stuff. I applied a thin layer using the spreader tip it comes with, (a little fiddly but you get the hang of it) and put my machine back together not expecting too much. I figured the reviews might be hyperbole, but I wanted to try this before buying a whole new heatsink.
Well, lo and behold, my temperatures are now stable when gaming and under heavy load. My fans rarely kick up to max speed, when they used to be running at max all the time just to try and maintain.
Spikes are down, recovery to ambient is much faster, and my system is quieter.
All this DURING A HEATWAVE! I’m honestly pretty blown away by how effective this compound is. It’s what I’ll be buying and recommending from now on.
TL;DR; Great product, applies relatively easily, does exactly as others suggest. A noticeable impact on the cooling capabilities of my laptop. Highly recommend!
M. Christophe Lavie –
Leà muy buenas reseñas de ella, está entre las primeras 5 pastas según reseñas de varios foros en internet. Es una pasta que tiene creo más de 10 años en el mercado. aunque no está tan disponible, por lo cual tardó en llegar unas dos semanas, realmente no me importó, ya que valió la pena esperarla estando confiado que habÃa adquirido una pasta de calidad. Además no tenÃa urgencia en usarla. Recién la apliqué y aunque estuve midiendo antes la temperatura de la laptop la cual llegaba hasta los 81 grados bajo carga constante. Al aplicarla se.noto una diferencia de 5 a 7 grados centÃgrados a la baja promedio, esto es muy bueno. Sin embargo no conforme, no me refiero al producto sino con el deseo de bajar aún más la temperatura, modifique la tapa inferior viendo que era factible hacerlo y sorprendentemente se logró bajar hasta uno 60 grados como máximo a carga constante. Quedé muy satisfecho con la modificación hecha, con la aplicación de la pasta y con el resultado. El equipo es una HP Pavilion dm1, siendo AMD y muy viejito, le estoy dando una segunda oportunidad a este hardware antigüo, además agregué un SSD e instalé Linux mint con el escritorio Xfce. Con este último las carga del procesador es mucho menor que con Windows 10 instalado, el cual ponÃa al 100% al procesador cuabdo reproducÃa videos en el navegador, y con mint, cuando mucho llega a 65%, obvio con algunos picos de 100% pero solo momentaneos. En resumen recomiendo la pasta. Más adelante actualizaré con fotos y más resultados del comportamiento de temperaturas.
Chandan –
This is great for laptops. It has high viscosity. And it comes in good quantity for the price compared to other options.
Earlier i got my paste replaced at a repair center and they used cryofuze violet. Within three months my laptop was severely throttling and i saw many frame drops even after reducing quality settings. Read a lot of reviews and suggestions about high performance paste for laptops and how they are not suitable, about pump out effect, dry out etc. This has lower conductivity at around 7 while violet has over 12. However, that doesn’t matter when the paste just spills over. This is much more viscous (and harder to apply and spread but manageable). After application I have noticed significant temperature drop in idle. Although my laptop still throttles under load, that’s because of the bad cooling design of asus TUF a15 (2020).
sb –
I have just used this thermal paste on my Acer 5 laptop’s cpu (i5 8th gen) and gpu (nvidia mx250). The laptop is almost 4 years old and never been repasted. I did not do a proper long running benchmark comparison, but I ran a quick MSI Kombustor and Geekbench 6 benchmark before and after repasting. Here is my result:
MSI Kombustor – before: 377 (6 FPS), after: 421 (7 FPS)
GeekBench 6 GPU- before: 9637, after: 10428
GeekBench 6 CPU (single/multi) – before: 572/1809, after: 611/2008
More importantly, the temperature rise was less dramatic after repasting. Previously the GPU temp shot up to 75 degree C immediately. Now it is taking about a minute to do so. Though not a big difference, there definitely is an improvement.
I will update my rating after longer use.
Akshay –
I had an HP omen 15 2021. Which started to heat after ig the stock paste ran out. Tried circling the service center multiple times used mx4, cryonaught. Literally nothing worked.
For 4 months it was a pain until I applied Gelid and put an end to my misery.
The paste works flawlessly and does the job well.
Really I would recommend this paste to be for laptops.
It’s viscous enough to withstand the high temperatures.
Mx4,cryo they work well but pump out quickly.
Shirsendu maiti –
I have used may thermal paste over time like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, Noctua NT-H1, Coolermaster Cryofuze. This Product felt like the best value for money which actually out performs some of the above mentioned and performance is some what equal to kryonaut which is double the price now.
The temperature of my laptop was quiet high when i used NT-H1 where CPU reached 97-99 C ( Even reached 100 C) and GPU reached 67 C under GPU and CPU stress test.
Under CPU only stress test the temps were around 90-96 C.
After using Gelid the temps dropped significantly to 86-89C on the CPU and 64 C on GPU.
Under CPU only stress test the temps were very low 78-84 C.
ROOM TEMP IS 29 C.
My device is Hp Pavilion gaming 16. The problem with this device is it will only kicks the fan to the full speed when the temps reach high and no fan control. So first the temps reaches High enough to turn the fans to the max like it will reach 94 C then stays there for some time and when the fans finally run at full speed the temps some time even reach as low as 80 if the room is cooler for CPU only stress test.
Must Bisu –
If you want paste for laptop which usually operate in higher Temps you want paste to more viscous. This one is the best for for graphic card and laptops. Significant improvement in Temps from idle 80 degrees to 58 idle. While in load 95 degrees to 87 to 90 degrees depend on cpu load. Though it’s 5900hx max t juncation is around 105 degrees that’s the reason never experienced thermal throttling even before only the Temps and fan noise was kinda scary. Spreading such thick paste can be bit annoying. Make sure to use 99% IPA solution to clean your previous paste and the cpu/gpu before application.
rani s. –
The thermal paste is so good and easy to apply using the given attachment. I own asus tuf dash f15 in which after rma i was facing a huge performance drop like before I was getting 9k+ cb mc scores but after rma they messed up by applying very cheap thermal paste which caused it to thermal throttle and the scores came to only 6k mc cb r23. Before buying this company replaced the motherboard twice for this issue. Ultimately I tried my bet to apply gelid gc extreme by my own and it was bull’s eye everything is under control nowonwards and the performance is back to normal.
Must Bisu –
I used GC extreme because it was recommend to me and I’m thankful that i did. I used to hit TJ-Max on both my CPU and GPU as soon as i started playing RDR2 on my laptop. (With AC on at 25/26 degrees)
I finally changed it’s stock thermal paste after 3 months of use. Even though i don’t play much, my stock thermal paste was almost dried out on GPU and CPU.
Pros-
1. Very reasonably priced.
2. Works flawlessly
3. Non-Conductive
4. Much much better than stock thermal paste or the generic thermal paste these companies apply to our laptop in the name of “service”.
5. Heavy games like RDR2 are showing temps under 85 degree Celsius without undervolting/disabling turbo boost, which was not the case for me previously on the stock thermal paste. Idle temp was around 30-40. I’m personally very satisfied. (with AC on at around 26 degree Celsius)
Neutral-
1. Bit difficult to apply but good thermal pastes are generally thick and they are not easy to apply. I have also not done it before so, Kinda new experience for me.
Cons
None as of day 1.
Things to note-
1. This is a day one review. Will edit it in the future as the need arises.
2. If you want to have a rough idea about the temps (like really rough) use Hwinfo app and monitor idle/gaming temps. If you Want a better idea run Antutu, 3Dmark and other benchmark tests before and after applying this thermal paste.
If someone is not willing to change the thermal paste themselves (which is fine) ask your laptop service guy to apply this thermal paste (buy it yourself), if the service guy is hesitant tell him that this is non-Conductive thermal paste (it won’t damage the motherboard even if some of it spills on to the motherboard).
Hossein –
FICA FRIO AI 🥶🥶
Thejus V. –
Love the thermal paste.I went down from 78 using mx4 to 64 on my gpu and 10 degrees cooler on cpu!This stuff is legit…. The best thermal paste I have used so far although the application is a little harder but regardless performs excellent.Tested on G703GX.
Julian Melvyn Jones –
Expérience avec GELID SOLUTIONS GC-Extreme 3.5g nouvelle version (paquet bleu) + backplate + vis sur processeur socket 1150
J’ai 2 supports ventilo avec attaches en plastique et je me suis aperçu que le contact n’était pas OK avec le cpu (mauvaise expérience aussi avec un vieux cpu AMD socket 939 grillé (car pas protection) à cause d’un support ventilo plastique fendu à cause de la chaleur et d’une position verticale), j’ai décidé de changer les vis plastiques par un backplate + des vis métal
Avant : en idle 40-45 °C, en Full 100 °C
Avec Gelid-Extrême nouveau modèle : en idle 27-35 °C, en Full 60°C
Donc oui au niveau thermique, elle est super efficace.
J’avais l’habitude d’étaler la pâte précédente car plus fluide, la Gelid-Extrême nouveau modèle est beaucoup plus épaisse : j’ai essayé de l’étaler avec ou sans l’applicateur mais le résultat est à peu près le même, après plusieurs tests, j’en mets beaucoup trop (d’autant plus que je peux serrer à fond le ventilo sur le proc) et je galère ensuite à l’enlever.
Donc je suis revenu à la bonne vieille méthode, une boulette au milieu du proc.
J’ai changé ma méthode d’étalage à cause de sa viscosité, du gaspillage engendré et de la fixation avec des vis métal, mais au final j’ai appris que mon proc pouvait monter à 100°C mais avec la Gelid-Extrême, il reste la plupart du temps à 60 °C.
Bien sûr qu’une grosse partie du gain est dû au changement de fixation du ventilo mais les -15° à -18°C en idle prouve qu’elle est super efficace.