@@klawi-khanez-dzi do not think he will because the ps5 uses Liquid Metal witch is better then regulair thermal paste there are also not a ton of difference between Liquid Metal thermal paste brands
I spread a thin layer over the whole CPU and then put a 'dot' in the middle. My theory being just spreading can cause air being trapped, and with only the dot, you risk not covering the whole CPU.
I used to use the MX-4 all the time as well as you, but now I'm finding the MJ M12 to be more advantageous and cost-effective than the MX-4. Maybe no one has heard of it, but it's a new product
I did it! After remove a bunch of dusts and repaste the thermal gel, my XPS works as smooth as new right now. Thank you so much. Your video is really easy to understand. 🎉
For a laptops, only the phase change material: Honeywell PTM 7950, Upsiren PCM-1, Gelid HeatPhase Ultra, Thermalright Heilos, Thermal Hero Pad. It comes in as a sheet, lasts longer, performs works better than traditional pastes and there is no pump out effect.
🚨According to Gamers Nexus, unlike CPU where you can apply the paste in many different ways, when it comes to GPU you should always spread the paste over the entire die surface.🛑
Based on tests from tomshardware, the results varied when they used air cooler over water. The NT H1 and H2 swapped places when air cooling was used over water.
There are tons of variables involved in assessing how effective it is like mounting pressure surface of processor cooler effectiveness...etc I guess the only thing we can really say is that a top 10 paste will all be around the same overall so it matters little (excluding liquid metal). We need long term effectiveness tests. No one does that.
Plus just the way to apply it. You can't use the exact same amount for all of these pastes. Arctic Silver 5 is VERY finicky, but it's the best out of all of these when applied correctly. And when I say it's finicky, I mean it. I've applied it, gotten temps that were 6C too high, then reapplied it and gotten -8C+ temps than I had just gotten. Too much is a bigger problem than what looks like too little. You can not coat the CPU like it's peanut butter on a slice of bread or you will not get the best results. I'm not saying it's better than Thermal Grizzly, never messed with that stuff, but I've got years upon years of using AS5 on CPUs and GPUs and there is a special way you have to apply it and spread it, and a very particular amount you need to use to get the best results. That said, that may make it the WORST paste for beginners. When you can get 8-10C temp differences just because of using a tad too much, that could be a problem. When it comes to AS5, less is more. It's SUPER thick and hard to spread, so it makes you want to just add more paste to fill in any gaps... but that will have you adding too much before ya know it. Also, you spread paste, you don't put a pea size drop and squash it with the heatsink. AND you apply and spread some on the heatsink, also. I'm just saying, I've done this probably 100 times and have gotten it down to a science. I've watched so many reviews, and my Fuma 2 Rev B with AS5 gets cooler temperatures than everyone else I see online, and I don't even keep my house cold. I average 58C in most games, and 62C in BF2042 which pushes my 5900x to around 45% average usage which is around 115 watts average, I believe. And that's not even talking about the core temps. That's the hottest temp on the die. Core temps are usually 10-15 degrees cooler than that hottest temp HWiNFO64 shows.
BTW, did I mention NASA used Arctic Silver 5 on a piece of one of their space shuttles? Yeah... it's that good. They didn't use MX-4. They didn't use Kryonaut. They used friggin' AS5. 'Nuff said.
@@stephenxs8354when it comes to using the top respected pastes yeah I agree the change is so nuanced and minute that you should just use the paste you like more for whatever reason you have. Be it easier to spread or use or you just like the name better or the color even, it really doesn't matter at that point because the difference is usually so negligible it's not worth fretting over.
I'm happy you made this video. I just bought a new CPU/Mobo upgrade and wanted the best available paste but I already had a tube of Arctic Silver 5 so I was skeptical of buying something else. Now I know that I might have saved 1 degree total
@user-fiendly186 I have an HTPC I built over 10 years ago with Arctic Silver 5. Just recently took it apart and reapplied Arctic Silver. Never had an overheat issues with AS5 even in my desktop gaming pcs. The way I apply it is with a credit card and apply a thin layer to the entire top of the CPU. Worked great 10+ years ago, still works great today. You want minimal paste on the CPU, just enough to close up any gaps between the heat sink surface and the CPU surface. Less is more.
nice video, definitely liked your attention to detail through every step of the way. its nice to see continued comparisons of popular thermal pastes. personally use gelid gc extreme and always had great results in all applications.
I used GD900 on March 2022 and keep notes on max temperature of my i7-4770 when running cinebench R15 multiple times. It was 61 C. Today, on April 2023, it still at 61 C max. I know for sure now that my GD900 is genuine, and it is just as good as my MX-4 in term of long term performance.
GD900 is really as good as Mx-4 when CPU max Temp continuously stays under 75c. But if you use a more powerful CPU and play CPU demanding game where temp stays above 80c... Then you will get a difference.
GD900 hands down. Bought a 30g 3 years ago. Have build a decent amount of pc's with it, never any issue. Use it on my laptop XMG Apex 15 ( Ryzen 9 3900 , 2070 mobile ), no issues, temps are fine. Repaste every year and it's fine. 30g GD900 tube costs the same as a 4g MX4 tube where i live, not a difficult choice for me then. This reminds me, i need a new tube....
Thermostats usually have a 2 degree swing. If its set to 75 then it likely warms up to 77 before cutting the AC on. That 2 degree difference will change your results. I know that you cant do anything about that but thought I would mention it.
This really gave me new insight and was debating what thermal paste i was going to get and I had my eyes on Arctic MX-6 because i used to have the MX-4 and i loved but and this video helped be to decided to just stick with the MX-6. Thank you.
The brand paste and application techniques seem to all come down to only a few degrees C difference. It's only worth worrying about if youre a serious hobbyist & want every last bit of cooling, overclocking, etc. For regular use, pea sized amount is fine. Place the heatsink down and let it spread the paste itself. I have always used this method, since the 2000s, and done this countless times on CPUs, re-pasting video card GPUs, and a few laptops. I have done it on CPUs up to 125W TDP, with air cooling. I use Arctic Silver Ceramique 2. Great vid
Quick note: If you don't use a heat spreader, SPREAD THE PASTE. Don't use the dot method. Uncovered areas of the die could cause severe hot spots, including damage that may go undetected by the thermal sensors. So make sure no part of the top of the die is showing.
I use a generous pea in the middle and it's never been an issue for me. After removing the mounting I see it's had even spread every time, as long as you fasten the cooler properly it should be fine. On bigger CPUs though it's a different story, but for the smaller ones it's fine. I've successfully built more than 30 PCs over the past 20 years, fyi.
speaking for laptops, spreading it can cause air bubbles and is much riskier. best way for anyone who's inexperienced is to apply thermal paste in a dot, apply the heatsink and then remove it again to see if it spread properly. if it did, reapply it the same way and you're all set. the surface area on a laptop die is really small anyway, which will make applying too little very hard unless it's actually a ridiculously teeny tiny amount. applying too much seems to be a much more common issue among laptop users
@@lavishlyvice Fair enough. Though apparently air bubbles aren't nearly the risk they were made out to be. Apparently they quickly dissolve or work their way out after a thermal cycle. I'd be interested to see if anyone has tested or measured this.
i would highly recommend thermalright tfx - due to its high viscosity and the fact that it doesnt pump out. i used kyrounaut and mx6 and both pumped out (the mx6 after 2 months , i started having higher edge temperatures and the fans spinned faster). highly recommended for gpus and laptops.
I bought a 1g Kryonaut for my ROG GL703GE. The reviews were convincing. And it was great...for a while. Kryonaut seems to suffer from the "pump out effect". The most demanding games I played on this laptop so far are Dying Light, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, modded Minecraft, and Subnautica, and I don't even play them very frequently. In less than 3 years, I already used up the 1g. :/ Other laptop users have similar experiences. *Tl;dr: Kryonaut is not ideal for laptops in the long term.* MX-6 seems to be my most affordable better alternative here in the Philippines. MasterGel Maker was also recommended, which's twice the price of the MX-6.
I wish reviewers would test the longevity of the thermal compounds. I bought some gd900 after seeing reviews about how great and cheap it was, not knowing I would have to reapply it like every 12-16 weeks on my 3070ti. I'm now looking for something that lasts longer so I don't have to teardown my gpu so frequently. How is MX6 working for you??? How often do you have to reapply?
@@ZuckerbergDaReptilian From what I've heard the "pump out effect" he mentioned only affects laptops, or coolers that don't apply high enough pressure on the CPU/GPU. I don't think it affects CPUs in desktops at least. Not sure about GPUs.
I'm a little sceptical of TF8. I used it on my CPU a few days ago. I was getting a steady max temp of 80°c in Linpack. A few days later I was getting 87°c
I've been using a tube of TF8 for multiple cpu and GPUs, even though I agree that TF8 dries out quickly (in like a year or more). The performance stays similar to almost the same even when dried. Have had multiple GPUs and CPUs on the TF8 paste for more then a year, been maintaining steady temperatures so far.
I have very good expirience with Arctic MX-4. I have used it for 8 years or so & only changed it every 3 to 4 years on both CPU & GPU in my desktop gaming PC. I do have good cooling on both of these which definitely helps a lot, but I'm also very confident in recommending the MX-4. It has a good price & gets zero complaints from me.
Why no gelid extreme paste for laptop? Works the best for me and is so thick, it doesn't pump out. It's the only paste that doesn't trigger fans in my laptop when watching YT.
Have you even tried Kryo? I hate Kryo, and I'm sick of overpaying for it, but it's the only paste I've found for laptops so far that actually improves temps for 45w and especially 15w TDP laptop CPUs that actually run way cooler. I'm dying to find another paste that isn't Kryo.
@@Demoralized88You mean Kryonaut? Never tried it. From what I heard it tends to dry out in laptop applications due to prolonged temps over 80*C, it's amazing for liquid nitrogen though. If I had to choose now, I would go with honeywell tpm7950. It's a phase change material ( it will melt and fill micro voids in heatsink), but you have to keep hot temp on cpu/ gpu with benchmark or game for 1-2h at first, then It's set&forget, meaning I would only clean fans and heat fins periodically without unscrewing the whole system.
Upgraded both my CPU and AiO (at different times) on my current PC, so I did pull waterblocks off CPUs quite often over the past 12 or 15 months. Initially, I had been using a tube of CM MasterGel Maker that I bought back in 2015/16 or so, but had never opened. As it didn't look like it had gone bad or out of emulsion, I used that stuff when I built the PC in early/mid 2022. I upgraded to an i7-14700KF shortly after that chip was launched (late 2023), so I got to see that "new old stock" paste after about 20 months of use - I had spread it around with a spatula when I first installed the AiO and the paste looked fine both WRT coverage and texture/consistency. Temps were also totally fine with that paste (i5-12600K, Lian Li Galahad Mk I 240). Plopped in the i7 and re-used the 240mm AiO, but I was getting kinda worried about the age of the CoolerMaster paste, so I bought a tube of MX-6 and used that. Didn't notice anything unusual when it came to temps (they *were* quite a bit higher on the i7 with no power-limits, but that's to be expected). As before, I used a spatula to spread the MX-6 evenly over the chip. When I upgraded my AiO to a 360 after a few months, the MX-6 also looked very good on there - spread was very even and seemed to cover the entire chip. What also seems to be working fine are those hex-board "stencils" some AiO manufacturers provide. I tried that thing once to see how the paste would spread with that pattern and it resulted in very good coverage for me. Not sure if it's worth the extra hassle/tinkering to apply the paste properly that way, but it certainly seems to work.
The temperature differences between thermal pastes are so small, that the best thermal paste is the one, which can last longer, and will not loose its performance over extended periods of time. Who needs thermal paste, which should be replaced after 6-9 months?
There is a difference in pastes, and it is huge if for example in laptops. Already a difference of 2°C can cause very large thermal throttling. That is why only phase change material is used Honeywell PTM 7950, Upsiren PCM-1, Gelid HeatPhase Ultra, Thermalright Heilos, Thermal Hero Pad. It comes in as a sheet, lasts longer, performs better than traditional pastes and there is no pump out effect.
just so you know, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is formulated NOT TO DRY OUT if kept under 80C. So a bit of undervolting and perhaps some better fans and you've got yourself something that is zero maintenance. Remember to use hot spot temperature instead of overall transistor die temperature
Really well done testing. I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for everything (GPU, CPU, Laptop, Multi/single processor Mac Pro, etc) and have for years. I have a friend who works on just as many varied units as I do. He exclusively uses Arctic MX-6. Guess what? It doesn't matter! Any of these top rated pastes will work fine although some will last slightly longer than others. I have taken apart hundreds of MacBooks over the last 25 years. Many of them have never had their bottom cover off and are over a decade old. So how does the paste look? Most look just fine. And my testing shows that new paste can sometimes help but normally not a whole lot.
Kryonaut after ~8 months there is a pump out effect or simply dries out. This paste is not at all suitable for components that for the most part operate at temperatures around 80°C, which in today's laptops is the norm as well as in processors in PCs with TDP >120W. I suggest you test the phase change material for example PTM7950 and I assure you that you will never again apply the traditional paste
It's very difficult to control for a group test of many pastes and liquids. What is the effect of applying a paste and then removing it? What is the difference between the layers and quantities of the differing substances? There may be a margin that provides an idea of inherent performance, but it will have to overcome these variations. It may be that collation of many group tests of identical products applied in different orders can give the clearest idea.
Thanks for showing laptop-specific tests too! I'm thinking of redoing the paste on my 2019 Macbook Pro (a notoriously hot laptop that _really_ gets angry when I have to run Docker) once it's "decommissioned" from being my work laptop and I start messing about turning it into a personal server (running Linux of course). This is a great guide to know what paste to look for!
I feel like most regular people could just use the GD900 even if its the quickest to dry, because in 1-2 year's time the dust would most likely get to your fans anyways, requiring you to take them off and replace the thermal paste anyways. Also, the GD900 is good for at least 2 years, because from my own experience, it didn't seem to be losing thermal conductivity even after it dried significantly (I only had it up to 2 years because that's the longest I went without cleaning my GPU fans).
GD900-1 is good as CPU package power in PC does not exceed 120W, and in laptop 30W in stress. If it exceeds, I recommend trying PTM7950 to reduce thermal throttling.
Ive heard tfx is very viscous and last a very long time id be interested to see how preformance compares to the rest of these paste especially since such a thick paste would be less susceptible to pump out over time for gpus and laptops.
With Kyronaut after 2-3 weeks temps are getting worst and worst. After 6months 30% is gone, and the rest is just dry. If the MX-6 can sustain the same performance for like 3years than it is very good paste, but still is it better than PTM7950?
Didn't have any problem spreading MX-6 paste using a credit card. Didn't work that well though. Oddly, my old desktop with a G3258 CPU doesn't get over 50c even though the paste is about three years old. The laptop (T430) only preformed a couple degrees better than the old chalky paste that was on it. Decided to just leave the old paste on my desktops (all temps good on them).
Arctic Silver5 has been my go to thermal paste... i9-9900 still running in the 30's at idle... water cooled with a single 120mm fan out the back.... daily use 10-12 hrs per day...
So I am watching this video because I have a drone that uses thermal paste on the goggle receiver. You mention in the video that thermal paste will loose it’s heat absorption the longer you heat it up. Does this mean every certain amount of time I will have to take my whole drone apart to reapply thermal paste?
Thank you for this video. I have a question about pump out and dry out for direct die contact. Have you seen or experienced any of those from long term usage from any of the pastes? I read they Kryonaught will dry out after long term exposure to 80C.
Kryo hasn't lasted me less than a year or so on very hot Laptops with shitty cooling (15w, non-gaming), and between the tiny die of my i7-1065 and and the shitty cooling, it's by far the worst torture you can subject Kryo to. It runs at 100c under load on any other pastes and maxxes out between 18-23w CPU package power, while Kryo runs 10-20c cooler inexplicably and somehow also acts like more thermal mass, not hitting 100c even under the ridiculous 50+ watt short-term Turbo TDP but still it averages 85c or so and hasn't noticeably degraded faster for me at 90c for hours a day than laptops with way better cooling at 60-70c. It's just a short-life paste no matter the temp, and anyone who cares about this stuff is gonna replace it before it gets really bad after 12+ months. I just tried Hydronaut because I'm tired of paying Kryo prices and my last tiny 1g syringe was defective and too dry to use (it came out like nearly dried silicone caulk and was impossible to apply because it kept sliding off my 1065 die), and as I feared it's as bad as all the other pastes I've tried and I'm back to 100c load though at full clocks (but Kryo never would hit 100c as same clocks/power). TL:DR any paste as good as Kryo for direct-die is because it's similarly dense/viscous, and is going to dry out faster than shitty pastes that dont matter for Desktops with integrated heat spreaders and far lower thermal loads per die area. For gaming laptops/direct-die desktops, GPUs it'll handle 80c for a year pretty easily, for small-die 15w CPUs with shitty cooling that area designed to turbo to 100c sustained, it's probably one of the worst but still as stated I can get about 12 months
Just repaste my msi laptop gpu with arctic mx6 from noctua nth2 and the temps are the same 81celcius. I was so paranoid but by this video its normal. I hope it will last long. Thanks for this informative video❤
I don't know if it's possible but wouldn't it be easier for the processor and cpu cooler factories to try to smooth the metal as best as possible so that there are no imperfections?
@How-FixIT Is it okay to put a 0.2mm thin Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut - Carbon Thermal Pad on the CPU & Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Grease Paste extremely lightly smeared on the heatsink to fill in the fine milled surface that has hills & valleys ????? Both materials are highly conductive & transfer heaps of heat. The reason why I ask is that if I use one or the other then I don't think that there will be adequate transference of heat. The amount I'm talking about smearing on the heatsink would be so little that it would only dull the surface of the heatsink & fill in the valleys of the heatsink.
My god, i have never heard AIDA said in English before. Just say it like Aïda (the opera). Btw, very, very good video, the details, the tests, so spot on! Thank you!
For those wondering what is the best way to 'spread thermal paste' there is a good trick that I stand by but you need an extra tube, order yourself some small sheets of clear perspex plastic, you can then try applying your choosen paste by making contact with the cpu or gpu with the clear perspex plastic and visually check the coverage, the idea behind this is that 'spreading paste' with a tool has to be done with more more 'care' as you can create microscopic air gaps in the paste as opposed to just laying a bead down and letting the two surfaces mate and resolve the spreading by pressure, various bead patterns will ensure the best results, i personally avoid any pattern beyond a line as those two beads joining under pressure can 'catch' air between them and create tiny air pockets 'or hot spots', try this method out :)
I ran out of paste so I thought about it for a few minutes and all I had was High temperature axle grease so I used it. Two weeks now and it is working better then regular paste.
Quick warning to laptop users, you NEED a high-viscosity paste(in other words a thick paste). Unless you’re prepared to change out ur paste every 2 weeks. This is due to a phenomenon called “pump out”, there are videos done by GN
Great comparison, loved it! I own a laptop with an i5 and GTX 1650. I don't really kill it but I've had it for about 3 1/2 years and was thinking of a deep clean and new thermal paste. Even if I don't use it to the edge of death would it be smart to use liquid metal? I would assume that regardless of use the better thermal agent would help substantially right? Thanks
Metal is fine for Laptops - if the die is facing down, there's no risk it can get on anything else. For standard pastes, Kryonaut is literally 10-20c cooler than anything else I've tried for my 15w non-gaming i7 Dell, but expect maybe 10c under load in gaming laptop over stock and other pastes. It doesn't make sense, but Kryo is by far the best in Laptops, especially if they have low thermal mass and bounce off 100c when turboing like most newer Laptops do. At around 4 years old, just cleaning the fan/heatsink is gonna net way lower temps, and Kryo or LM isn't strictly necessary since you're not limited by temps and can't overclock. The biggest gains when not limited by cooling are just peace of mind and typically quieter fans under load, which you may not care about.
CPU: CineBench R23 or later in the loop. GPU: MSI Kombustor, unigine benchmark for example Superposition, Valley. And track the temperature via HWiNFO.
Excluding liquid metal from the list, which one does not conduct electricity? I'm looking for thermal pastes like this, because I heard that some have silver and other metals that make them conduct electricity.
I know that the description says "Non-eletrical conductive". but I don't understand what it means. does it mean that it can be used on electrical parts or can't be used on electrical parts ? Because I have never used thermal paste before so I want it to be safe.
It's not intended to go on anything conductive, it's just telling you that it's not gonna short something and damage your components if it somehow ended up on a conductive part (like, dripping on and potentially shorting the Mobo or GPU). No CPU or GPU die/chip is a conductive surface, so you could use either conductive or non-conductive for thermal paste/media to the cooler. Most pastes are non-conductive by default, only some older ones like Arctic Silver and highest-performance newer like Liquid Metals are conductive and they're kinda niche. It's just a warning that, for example, if you spill that shit like water all over your computer somehow, the conductive pastes might short something.
Please use MX4. Because most people don't apply thermal paste very often. They continue to use their computers in the same condition they originally purchased them. The GD 900 has a very good price/performance ratio, but its effectiveness only lasts for one year. For example, if you are someone who will disassemble the heat sink and apply thermal paste every year, the GD 900 is the best choice.
Of course its not significant taking into account the wide range of acceptable temperatures. Especially as those are often simply down to a large number of variables included. In the end most users will get completely different results … unexperienced users grabbing the better ones, but achieving poor results as more difficult to handle.
*For more info check out the links in the description*
Ps5 test soon??
@@klawi-khanez-dzi do not think he will because the ps5 uses Liquid Metal witch is better then regulair thermal paste there are also not a ton of difference between Liquid Metal thermal paste brands
Can I apply liquid metal to my laptop cpu?
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Thermal Grizzly sucks dont do it
Thank you for taking the time to test these pastes and give numbers. I really appreciate this!
I spread a thin layer over the whole CPU and then put a 'dot' in the middle. My theory being just spreading can cause air being trapped, and with only the dot, you risk not covering the whole CPU.
Hm, that's quite neat idea 🤔
That’s actually really smart
I was just thinking about trying this the other day.
If I understand you right. You do the thin layer he showed, then you do a second layer "dot" and use that plastic thing to spread the dot?
@@lookingatdaisies9901 I think the process would be letting the dot in the middle to spread out naturally
Last time I built a PC the mx-4 was top, nice to see it's still near the spot all these years later
The Thermal Paste in general is stucked, cant get better
I used to use the MX-4 all the time as well as you, but now I'm finding the MJ M12 to be more advantageous and cost-effective than the MX-4.
Maybe no one has heard of it, but it's a new product
MX4 74.7 vs others 74.1, the diff is not noticeable in real life to be honest.
@@RitlalYaso-b9h that's the most random thermal paste that you can find, but tbf I only found it on aliexpress and not anyway else
I did it! After remove a bunch of dusts and repaste the thermal gel, my XPS works as smooth as new right now. Thank you so much. Your video is really easy to understand. 🎉
Thank you for testing
Great results!
For laptops you should compare clocks not just the temperature because most of them are thermally throttling around 90c.
How do you do that exactly? Sorry I'm new to this
In this test that doesn't matter as highest temp was 84°C.
Dumb, it is because regulations of Dell BIOS kernel. He says right. The video is detailed but missing the facts.
For a laptops, only the phase change material: Honeywell PTM 7950, Upsiren PCM-1, Gelid HeatPhase Ultra, Thermalright Heilos, Thermal Hero Pad.
It comes in as a sheet, lasts longer, performs works better than traditional pastes and there is no pump out effect.
@@goorthiss what about Thermal Pad Thermalright Odyssey?
🚨According to Gamers Nexus, unlike CPU where you can apply the paste in many different ways, when it comes to GPU you should always spread the paste over the entire die surface.🛑
Based on tests from tomshardware, the results varied when they used air cooler over water. The NT H1 and H2 swapped places when air cooling was used over water.
There are tons of variables involved in assessing how effective it is like mounting pressure surface of processor cooler effectiveness...etc I guess the only thing we can really say is that a top 10 paste will all be around the same overall so it matters little (excluding liquid metal). We need long term effectiveness tests. No one does that.
Plus just the way to apply it. You can't use the exact same amount for all of these pastes. Arctic Silver 5 is VERY finicky, but it's the best out of all of these when applied correctly.
And when I say it's finicky, I mean it. I've applied it, gotten temps that were 6C too high, then reapplied it and gotten -8C+ temps than I had just gotten. Too much is a bigger problem than what looks like too little. You can not coat the CPU like it's peanut butter on a slice of bread or you will not get the best results.
I'm not saying it's better than Thermal Grizzly, never messed with that stuff, but I've got years upon years of using AS5 on CPUs and GPUs and there is a special way you have to apply it and spread it, and a very particular amount you need to use to get the best results.
That said, that may make it the WORST paste for beginners. When you can get 8-10C temp differences just because of using a tad too much, that could be a problem. When it comes to AS5, less is more. It's SUPER thick and hard to spread, so it makes you want to just add more paste to fill in any gaps... but that will have you adding too much before ya know it.
Also, you spread paste, you don't put a pea size drop and squash it with the heatsink. AND you apply and spread some on the heatsink, also. I'm just saying, I've done this probably 100 times and have gotten it down to a science. I've watched so many reviews, and my Fuma 2 Rev B with AS5 gets cooler temperatures than everyone else I see online, and I don't even keep my house cold. I average 58C in most games, and 62C in BF2042 which pushes my 5900x to around 45% average usage which is around 115 watts average, I believe.
And that's not even talking about the core temps. That's the hottest temp on the die. Core temps are usually 10-15 degrees cooler than that hottest temp HWiNFO64 shows.
BTW, did I mention NASA used Arctic Silver 5 on a piece of one of their space shuttles?
Yeah... it's that good. They didn't use MX-4. They didn't use Kryonaut.
They used friggin' AS5. 'Nuff said.
@@stephenxs8354when it comes to using the top respected pastes yeah I agree the change is so nuanced and minute that you should just use the paste you like more for whatever reason you have. Be it easier to spread or use or you just like the name better or the color even, it really doesn't matter at that point because the difference is usually so negligible it's not worth fretting over.
I'm happy you made this video. I just bought a new CPU/Mobo upgrade and wanted the best available paste but I already had a tube of Arctic Silver 5 so I was skeptical of buying something else. Now I know that I might have saved 1 degree total
@user-fiendly186 I have an HTPC I built over 10 years ago with Arctic Silver 5. Just recently took it apart and reapplied Arctic Silver. Never had an overheat issues with AS5 even in my desktop gaming pcs. The way I apply it is with a credit card and apply a thin layer to the entire top of the CPU. Worked great 10+ years ago, still works great today. You want minimal paste on the CPU, just enough to close up any gaps between the heat sink surface and the CPU surface. Less is more.
What isn't said in the clip is that Artic Silver 5, although the manufacturer doesn't say it, has a curing in period.
@@dorientjewoller113and its conductive
@@quester34 No longer, formula has changed.
nice video, definitely liked your attention to detail through every step of the way. its nice to see continued comparisons of popular thermal pastes. personally use gelid gc extreme and always had great results in all applications.
GC Extreme solved my pump out issues on my old Sapphire Nitro R7 370 4gb.
would very much recommend it for GPUs, Laptops or anything direct die!
Recently it will change the composition of GC Extreme paste and it is no longer so efficient. Gelid GC-4 is a more interesting option.
I used GD900 on March 2022 and keep notes on max temperature of my i7-4770 when running cinebench R15 multiple times. It was 61 C. Today, on April 2023, it still at 61 C max. I know for sure now that my GD900 is genuine, and it is just as good as my MX-4 in term of long term performance.
GD900 is really as good as Mx-4 when CPU max Temp continuously stays under 75c. But if you use a more powerful CPU and play CPU demanding game where temp stays above 80c... Then you will get a difference.
Can i apply gd900 on my Laptop. Is it suitable for it ?
@@danialahmad8912 If the CPU package power in stress does not exceed 30W, and in the PC 120W. For above this values only Honeywell PTM7950.
how about in 2024 ?
GD900 hands down. Bought a 30g 3 years ago. Have build a decent amount of pc's with it, never any issue. Use it on my laptop XMG Apex 15 ( Ryzen 9 3900 , 2070 mobile ), no issues, temps are fine. Repaste every year and it's fine. 30g GD900 tube costs the same as a 4g MX4 tube where i live, not a difficult choice for me then. This reminds me, i need a new tube....
@@gibonzproject9710 30 g in bed ? Is that some weird fetish or something ?
@@gibonzproject9710 maybe u should read what i said. I change the paste every year and i have build alot of pc's with the 30gr tube.
Thermostats usually have a 2 degree swing. If its set to 75 then it likely warms up to 77 before cutting the AC on. That 2 degree difference will change your results. I know that you cant do anything about that but thought I would mention it.
This really gave me new insight and was debating what thermal paste i was going to get and I had my eyes on Arctic MX-6 because i used to have the MX-4 and i loved but and this video helped be to decided to just stick with the MX-6. Thank you.
might as well buy grizzly or noctua if you have high budget
And how much life service have? @@iikatinggangsengii2471
The brand paste and application techniques seem to all come down to only a few degrees C difference. It's only worth worrying about if youre a serious hobbyist & want every last bit of cooling, overclocking, etc. For regular use, pea sized amount is fine. Place the heatsink down and let it spread the paste itself. I have always used this method, since the 2000s, and done this countless times on CPUs, re-pasting video card GPUs, and a few laptops. I have done it on CPUs up to 125W TDP, with air cooling. I use Arctic Silver Ceramique 2. Great vid
Quick note: If you don't use a heat spreader, SPREAD THE PASTE. Don't use the dot method. Uncovered areas of the die could cause severe hot spots, including damage that may go undetected by the thermal sensors. So make sure no part of the top of the die is showing.
MYTH.
I use a generous pea in the middle and it's never been an issue for me. After removing the mounting I see it's had even spread every time, as long as you fasten the cooler properly it should be fine. On bigger CPUs though it's a different story, but for the smaller ones it's fine. I've successfully built more than 30 PCs over the past 20 years, fyi.
@@JamieR would you recommend the pea method for a acer nitro 5 laptop
speaking for laptops, spreading it can cause air bubbles and is much riskier. best way for anyone who's inexperienced is to apply thermal paste in a dot, apply the heatsink and then remove it again to see if it spread properly. if it did, reapply it the same way and you're all set. the surface area on a laptop die is really small anyway, which will make applying too little very hard unless it's actually a ridiculously teeny tiny amount. applying too much seems to be a much more common issue among laptop users
@@lavishlyvice Fair enough. Though apparently air bubbles aren't nearly the risk they were made out to be. Apparently they quickly dissolve or work their way out after a thermal cycle. I'd be interested to see if anyone has tested or measured this.
Great testing method. I came to this video hoping to find that my NT-H1 tube was a decent buy. Turns out it was. 😊
i would highly recommend thermalright tfx - due to its high viscosity and the fact that it doesnt pump out. i used kyrounaut and mx6 and both pumped out (the mx6 after 2 months , i started having higher edge temperatures and the fans spinned faster). highly recommended for gpus and laptops.
2:56 All thermal pastes for the procesor- perfect! 1-2 degrees is not a problem!
I bought a 1g Kryonaut for my ROG GL703GE. The reviews were convincing. And it was great...for a while. Kryonaut seems to suffer from the "pump out effect". The most demanding games I played on this laptop so far are Dying Light, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, modded Minecraft, and Subnautica, and I don't even play them very frequently. In less than 3 years, I already used up the 1g. :/ Other laptop users have similar experiences. *Tl;dr: Kryonaut is not ideal for laptops in the long term.*
MX-6 seems to be my most affordable better alternative here in the Philippines. MasterGel Maker was also recommended, which's twice the price of the MX-6.
I wish reviewers would test the longevity of the thermal compounds. I bought some gd900 after seeing reviews about how great and cheap it was, not knowing I would have to reapply it like every 12-16 weeks on my 3070ti. I'm now looking for something that lasts longer so I don't have to teardown my gpu so frequently. How is MX6 working for you??? How often do you have to reapply?
@@ZuckerbergDaReptilian From what I've heard the "pump out effect" he mentioned only affects laptops, or coolers that don't apply high enough pressure on the CPU/GPU. I don't think it affects CPUs in desktops at least. Not sure about GPUs.
Hi, can you recommend an amazing affordable thermal paste for Tuf Gaming Laptop?
I think I had that effect on the TM30 paste I was using on my 5900X. Switching to the NT-H1 brought down my temperatures significantly.
Thanks for this added insight! Is helpful for me in my situation ❤
I'm a little sceptical of TF8. I used it on my CPU a few days ago. I was getting a steady max temp of 80°c in Linpack. A few days later I was getting 87°c
TF8 easy dry and turn solid...
I've been using a tube of TF8 for multiple cpu and GPUs, even though I agree that TF8 dries out quickly (in like a year or more). The performance stays similar to almost the same even when dried.
Have had multiple GPUs and CPUs on the TF8 paste for more then a year, been maintaining steady temperatures so far.
How about a vid comparing laptop vacuum coolers or cooling pads?
I would like to see an updated testing suite that includes graphine thermal pads as well.
I have very good expirience with Arctic MX-4. I have used it for 8 years or so & only changed it every 3 to 4 years on both CPU & GPU in my desktop gaming PC. I do have good cooling on both of these which definitely helps a lot, but I'm also very confident in recommending the MX-4. It has a good price & gets zero complaints from me.
Interesting to see that actual robots have their own TH-cam channels nowdays.
Great job, but are those test results with considering pump out or did you just apply it and went to the races?
Why no gelid extreme paste for laptop? Works the best for me and is so thick, it doesn't pump out. It's the only paste that doesn't trigger fans in my laptop when watching YT.
Have you even tried Kryo? I hate Kryo, and I'm sick of overpaying for it, but it's the only paste I've found for laptops so far that actually improves temps for 45w and especially 15w TDP laptop CPUs that actually run way cooler. I'm dying to find another paste that isn't Kryo.
@@Demoralized88You mean Kryonaut? Never tried it. From what I heard it tends to dry out in laptop applications due to prolonged temps over 80*C, it's amazing for liquid nitrogen though. If I had to choose now, I would go with honeywell tpm7950. It's a phase change material ( it will melt and fill micro voids in heatsink), but you have to keep hot temp on cpu/ gpu with benchmark or game for 1-2h at first, then It's set&forget, meaning I would only clean fans and heat fins periodically without unscrewing the whole system.
Upgraded both my CPU and AiO (at different times) on my current PC, so I did pull waterblocks off CPUs quite often over the past 12 or 15 months. Initially, I had been using a tube of CM MasterGel Maker that I bought back in 2015/16 or so, but had never opened. As it didn't look like it had gone bad or out of emulsion, I used that stuff when I built the PC in early/mid 2022. I upgraded to an i7-14700KF shortly after that chip was launched (late 2023), so I got to see that "new old stock" paste after about 20 months of use - I had spread it around with a spatula when I first installed the AiO and the paste looked fine both WRT coverage and texture/consistency. Temps were also totally fine with that paste (i5-12600K, Lian Li Galahad Mk I 240). Plopped in the i7 and re-used the 240mm AiO, but I was getting kinda worried about the age of the CoolerMaster paste, so I bought a tube of MX-6 and used that. Didn't notice anything unusual when it came to temps (they *were* quite a bit higher on the i7 with no power-limits, but that's to be expected). As before, I used a spatula to spread the MX-6 evenly over the chip. When I upgraded my AiO to a 360 after a few months, the MX-6 also looked very good on there - spread was very even and seemed to cover the entire chip.
What also seems to be working fine are those hex-board "stencils" some AiO manufacturers provide. I tried that thing once to see how the paste would spread with that pattern and it resulted in very good coverage for me. Not sure if it's worth the extra hassle/tinkering to apply the paste properly that way, but it certainly seems to work.
The temperature differences between thermal pastes are so small, that the best thermal paste is the one, which can last longer, and will not loose its performance over extended periods of time. Who needs thermal paste, which should be replaced after 6-9 months?
Noctua NT-H2 wins 5 years lifetime
Loose? Lose*
There is a difference in pastes, and it is huge if for example in laptops. Already a difference of 2°C can cause very large thermal throttling. That is why only phase change material is used Honeywell PTM 7950, Upsiren PCM-1, Gelid HeatPhase Ultra, Thermalright Heilos, Thermal Hero Pad.
It comes in as a sheet, lasts longer, performs better than traditional pastes and there is no pump out effect.
was shopping for some paste and got the mx-6 before watching this vid, glad i picked that one
just so you know, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is formulated NOT TO DRY OUT if kept under 80C. So a bit of undervolting and perhaps some better fans and you've got yourself something that is zero maintenance. Remember to use hot spot temperature instead of overall transistor die temperature
Did you use text to speech synthesis for this video? If so, what software? Some of the writing could be tweeked
It's a real voice
@@howfixit Brutal
Really well done testing. I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for everything (GPU, CPU, Laptop, Multi/single processor Mac Pro, etc) and have for years. I have a friend who works on just as many varied units as I do. He exclusively uses Arctic MX-6. Guess what? It doesn't matter! Any of these top rated pastes will work fine although some will last slightly longer than others. I have taken apart hundreds of MacBooks over the last 25 years. Many of them have never had their bottom cover off and are over a decade old. So how does the paste look? Most look just fine. And my testing shows that new paste can sometimes help but normally not a whole lot.
Kryonaut after ~8 months there is a pump out effect or simply dries out. This paste is not at all suitable for components that for the most part operate at temperatures around 80°C, which in today's laptops is the norm as well as in processors in PCs with TDP >120W. I suggest you test the phase change material for example PTM7950 and I assure you that you will never again apply the traditional paste
It's very difficult to control for a group test of many pastes and liquids. What is the effect of applying a paste and then removing it? What is the difference between the layers and quantities of the differing substances? There may be a margin that provides an idea of inherent performance, but it will have to overcome these variations.
It may be that collation of many group tests of identical products applied in different orders can give the clearest idea.
Very helpful, fully detailed.
Thanks a lot, man 😊
Thanks for showing laptop-specific tests too! I'm thinking of redoing the paste on my 2019 Macbook Pro (a notoriously hot laptop that _really_ gets angry when I have to run Docker) once it's "decommissioned" from being my work laptop and I start messing about turning it into a personal server (running Linux of course). This is a great guide to know what paste to look for!
I feel like most regular people could just use the GD900 even if its the quickest to dry, because in 1-2 year's time the dust would most likely get to your fans anyways, requiring you to take them off and replace the thermal paste anyways. Also, the GD900 is good for at least 2 years, because from my own experience, it didn't seem to be losing thermal conductivity even after it dried significantly (I only had it up to 2 years because that's the longest I went without cleaning my GPU fans).
GD900-1 is good as CPU package power in PC does not exceed 120W, and in laptop 30W in stress. If it exceeds, I recommend trying PTM7950 to reduce thermal throttling.
Ive heard tfx is very viscous and last a very long time id be interested to see how preformance compares to the rest of these paste especially since such a thick paste would be less susceptible to pump out over time for gpus and laptops.
Glad I chose MX-6! Great video, this is the best video for thermal paste on the internet!
Do you still use the same paste or applied a new?
I would've liked to see the newer coolermaster offerings like the CryoFuze Nano against the older mastergel pro v2.
I used the Artic MX-6 a few days ago to re-do my 5 year old Termal paste X) it was about time.
With Kyronaut after 2-3 weeks temps are getting worst and worst. After 6months 30% is gone, and the rest is just dry. If the MX-6 can sustain the same performance for like 3years than it is very good paste, but still is it better than PTM7950?
NO NO NO
it's far behind
Interesting. So why did you only test the SYY 157 in the cpu test and not the rest? Is it because it's similar to the thermalright?
Congrats, the best guide of termal paste in The net !!!🎉
Hi! Have you bought Noctua NT-H1 this year, or previously? I see now they use other design of packages
Thank you for this video! Very informative and well-put! ❤
I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme on a 13900K with a Kraken Elite 360 and sit a 30 C idle and the hottest I have seen is 62 C under heavy use
Didn't have any problem spreading MX-6 paste using a credit card. Didn't work that well though. Oddly, my old desktop with a G3258 CPU doesn't get over 50c even though the paste is about three years old. The laptop (T430) only preformed a couple degrees better than the old chalky paste that was on it. Decided to just leave the old paste on my desktops (all temps good on them).
Which type of quality paste long lasting in gpu ?
How to identify quality a cpu thermal paste ?
Asking the real questions.
Arctic Silver5 has been my go to thermal paste... i9-9900 still running in the 30's at idle... water cooled with a single 120mm fan out the back.... daily use 10-12 hrs per day...
What electrolytic capacitors are on that board? They are all solid polymers
My only question is what kind of load did you put on the system? Was it a load that maxed out what's being tested?
Amazing video!!! Super efficient and informative. Keep it up.
So I am watching this video because I have a drone that uses thermal paste on the goggle receiver. You mention in the video that thermal paste will loose it’s heat absorption the longer you heat it up. Does this mean every certain amount of time I will have to take my whole drone apart to reapply thermal paste?
Thank you for this video. I have a question about pump out and dry out for direct die contact. Have you seen or experienced any of those from long term usage from any of the pastes? I read they Kryonaught will dry out after long term exposure to 80C.
Kryo hasn't lasted me less than a year or so on very hot Laptops with shitty cooling (15w, non-gaming), and between the tiny die of my i7-1065 and and the shitty cooling, it's by far the worst torture you can subject Kryo to. It runs at 100c under load on any other pastes and maxxes out between 18-23w CPU package power, while Kryo runs 10-20c cooler inexplicably and somehow also acts like more thermal mass, not hitting 100c even under the ridiculous 50+ watt short-term Turbo TDP but still it averages 85c or so and hasn't noticeably degraded faster for me at 90c for hours a day than laptops with way better cooling at 60-70c.
It's just a short-life paste no matter the temp, and anyone who cares about this stuff is gonna replace it before it gets really bad after 12+ months. I just tried Hydronaut because I'm tired of paying Kryo prices and my last tiny 1g syringe was defective and too dry to use (it came out like nearly dried silicone caulk and was impossible to apply because it kept sliding off my 1065 die), and as I feared it's as bad as all the other pastes I've tried and I'm back to 100c load though at full clocks (but Kryo never would hit 100c as same clocks/power).
TL:DR any paste as good as Kryo for direct-die is because it's similarly dense/viscous, and is going to dry out faster than shitty pastes that dont matter for Desktops with integrated heat spreaders and far lower thermal loads per die area. For gaming laptops/direct-die desktops, GPUs it'll handle 80c for a year pretty easily, for small-die 15w CPUs with shitty cooling that area designed to turbo to 100c sustained, it's probably one of the worst but still as stated I can get about 12 months
Do you have any comparison between Thermal Pads like Kyrosheet and Carbonaut for gaming laptops?
Just repaste my msi laptop gpu with arctic mx6 from noctua nth2 and the temps are the same 81celcius. I was so paranoid but by this video its normal. I hope it will last long.
Thanks for this informative video❤
Use PTM7950.
Really good video. this take so much time to do, thx you for your work
Is there any difference how long time they last before drying out and temps rising?
MX4 for great durability?
I don't know if it's possible but wouldn't it be easier for the processor and cpu cooler factories to try to smooth the metal as best as possible so that there are no imperfections?
its not possible
Gallium can cause corrosion on copper too. The best practice is nickel platting the copper part to increase the resistance.
Arctic MX-6 is meant to last 8 years or am I getting bamboozled!?
Thermal conductivity of GD900 is 4.8 W/M-K,
What about GD007 (Thermal conductivity 6.8 W/M-K) and GD900-1 (Thermal conductivity 6 W/M-K)
How long does Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut lasts when you use it on a gaming laptop for long hours of gaming?
@How-FixIT
Is it okay to put a 0.2mm thin Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut - Carbon Thermal Pad on the CPU & Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Grease Paste extremely lightly smeared on the heatsink to fill in the fine milled surface that has hills & valleys ????? Both materials are highly conductive & transfer heaps of heat.
The reason why I ask is that if I use one or the other then I don't think that there will be adequate transference of heat. The amount I'm talking about smearing on the heatsink would be so little that it would only dull the surface of the heatsink & fill in the valleys of the heatsink.
I think you also miss also another factor. Durability, how many years it stays before it dryes out. some are 1 year. others are up to 3 year
Do you clean or update your system less than once every 3 years? Then your choice is Noctua.
That is the cleanest and dustless laptop internal, Bro is living in dream
Excellent video !
My god, i have never heard AIDA said in English before. Just say it like Aïda (the opera). Btw, very, very good video, the details, the tests, so spot on! Thank you!
Also no matter what thermal paste or dust u clean, if the room you are in is hot, it still wont help much. The room needs to be cool during summer.
For those wondering what is the best way to 'spread thermal paste' there is a good trick that I stand by but you need an extra tube, order yourself some small sheets of clear perspex plastic, you can then try applying your choosen paste by making contact with the cpu or gpu with the clear perspex plastic and visually check the coverage, the idea behind this is that 'spreading paste' with a tool has to be done with more more 'care' as you can create microscopic air gaps in the paste as opposed to just laying a bead down and letting the two surfaces mate and resolve the spreading by pressure, various bead patterns will ensure the best results, i personally avoid any pattern beyond a line as those two beads joining under pressure can 'catch' air between them and create tiny air pockets 'or hot spots', try this method out :)
I ran out of paste so I thought about it for a few minutes and all I had was High temperature axle grease so I used it. Two weeks now and it is working better then regular paste.
Is one capsule enough for both the CPU and GPU in a laptop?
Yes, and MX-6 8G is on sale for $9 at Amazon. 8G is alot and can be applied many times.
Is cooler master cryofuze violet electrical conductivity safe? I'm a newbie hence asking, wanting to repaste my laptop.
I replaced the thermal paste in my PS4 Pro with Arctic MX-6, and it started emitting a weird smell. Is MX-6 supposed to give off a smell?
ben using cooler master gel for a while no pump out effect..it works !
mx4 pumps out ..terrible..temps will rise in a month!
Hi. Great video! Just subscribed! Thank you! ❤
I have hp pavalain 15 gaming laptop which tool I use to check the heat temperature of my laptop which thermal paste should I use?
Great video, thanks mate!
Quick warning to laptop users, you NEED a high-viscosity paste(in other words a thick paste). Unless you’re prepared to change out ur paste every 2 weeks.
This is due to a phenomenon called “pump out”, there are videos done by GN
what thermal paste do you reccommend?
@@nhoj3345 gelid gc extreme
@@elonwongwould gryzzly Kryonaut be a good choice for a low end laptop ?
@@gabrielsiberianrifleman7358 nop it’s a low viscosity paste, and actually displays one of the worse examples of pump out
@@nhoj3345 Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change material.
Great comparison, loved it! I own a laptop with an i5 and GTX 1650. I don't really kill it but I've had it for about 3 1/2 years and was thinking of a deep clean and new thermal paste. Even if I don't use it to the edge of death would it be smart to use liquid metal? I would assume that regardless of use the better thermal agent would help substantially right? Thanks
Metal is fine for Laptops - if the die is facing down, there's no risk it can get on anything else. For standard pastes, Kryonaut is literally 10-20c cooler than anything else I've tried for my 15w non-gaming i7 Dell, but expect maybe 10c under load in gaming laptop over stock and other pastes. It doesn't make sense, but Kryo is by far the best in Laptops, especially if they have low thermal mass and bounce off 100c when turboing like most newer Laptops do. At around 4 years old, just cleaning the fan/heatsink is gonna net way lower temps, and Kryo or LM isn't strictly necessary since you're not limited by temps and can't overclock. The biggest gains when not limited by cooling are just peace of mind and typically quieter fans under load, which you may not care about.
What you think about tf9? Is it gonna be better than tf8?
Wanna buy it for 13600k and replace mx6
Would you like to inclue a new brazilian thermal paste in your tests
What stress/stability software, do you recommend, to check the GPU and CPU temps of a laptop?
CPU: CineBench R23 or later in the loop. GPU: MSI Kombustor, unigine benchmark for example Superposition, Valley. And track the temperature via HWiNFO.
Thanks so much for this information, surprised that arctic is as good as noctua.
Is it okay to applying the paste on the heatsink surface that directly touching with the cpu & gpu ?
Because i was doing that on my laptop 😅
Excluding liquid metal from the list, which one does not conduct electricity?
I'm looking for thermal pastes like this, because I heard that some have silver and other metals that make them conduct electricity.
most of them should not be conductive. Best to check the product ingredients on their official website before you decide to buy them.
Arctic Silver 5 is conducive.
I know that the description says "Non-eletrical conductive".
but I don't understand what it means.
does it mean that it can be used on electrical parts or can't be used on electrical parts ?
Because I have never used thermal paste before so I want it to be safe.
It's not intended to go on anything conductive, it's just telling you that it's not gonna short something and damage your components if it somehow ended up on a conductive part (like, dripping on and potentially shorting the Mobo or GPU). No CPU or GPU die/chip is a conductive surface, so you could use either conductive or non-conductive for thermal paste/media to the cooler. Most pastes are non-conductive by default, only some older ones like Arctic Silver and highest-performance newer like Liquid Metals are conductive and they're kinda niche. It's just a warning that, for example, if you spill that shit like water all over your computer somehow, the conductive pastes might short something.
9:48 hi! does anybody know where is the video where he shares the video about applying liquid metal?
Ultimate Guide to Applying Liquid Metal -> th-cam.com/video/w7ChaNf9N-w/w-d-xo.html
Please use MX4. Because most people don't apply thermal paste very often. They continue to use their computers in the same condition they originally purchased them. The GD 900 has a very good price/performance ratio, but its effectiveness only lasts for one year. For example, if you are someone who will disassemble the heat sink and apply thermal paste every year, the GD 900 is the best choice.
Where did the GC Extreme go on the gpu test
Which thermal paste is suitable for Intel i3 3rd Gen processor
Prolimatech PK-3. .Year lights ahead of Kyronaut (wich has more flaws than features).
The best paste for laptop is actually not a paste. Its a phase changed pad called PTM-7950 BY Honeywell.
True
Very nice job, thank you!
2-3 degrees Celsius is insignificant?😅
It is insignificant for average user. But yeah even 1 degree is significant if you are always on the pc or do overclocking.
Of course its not significant taking into account the wide range of acceptable temperatures. Especially as those are often simply down to a large number of variables included. In the end most users will get completely different results … unexperienced users grabbing the better ones, but achieving poor results as more difficult to handle.
I have been using liquid metal on everything, for years. Awesome stuff.
Shit.. I built my first PC and the cpu arrives tomorrow but the thermal paste I I got is the one literally at the very bottom of the list 😂
same bro
Where's the link to the liquid metal vid bro ?
Here is Ultimate Guide to Applying Liquid Metal -> th-cam.com/video/w7ChaNf9N-w/w-d-xo.html