
Thermal paste. You either think about it a lot, or you just slap some on your CPU and call it a day. Good news to anyone in the former group: Arctic has just launched a new paste, and some suggest it's one of the best.
Arctic's MX-7 is a non-conductive and highly viscous paste. A higher viscosity than MX-6 but not as viscous as MX-4. I'll stop saying viscous now. The company suggests it can lower CPU temperatures by as much as a couple of degrees versus MX-6 in its own testing, though we have a third-party test to take a look at in a moment.