Let's get to the bottom line and see what these puppies will do under some stress. I didn't use the provided thermal compounds because I wanted both heatsinks to be on the same playing field. Again, I decided to use CoolingStore's Arctic Silver thermal compound as my "official thermal compound" for this review. I used the thermal sensor on the motherboard to measure the CPU core temp and Motherboard Monitor v4.17 to get my temperature readings for the CPU core and motherboard temps.