Well in that case, you are the one who should be telling us. If you want some inkling of where to start, follow the TH list.
I can't speak for everyone here but I have no interest in shelling out hundreds of dollars to test thermal pastes that Tom's Hardware says all pretty much perform within a few degrees Celsius of each other regardless.
There are probably a couple of people who have had experience with more than 10 pastes over a decade plus of using them but no regular PC owner will test them side-by-side.
And even if someone were to *give* me all the pastes to try for free (which no one will do), what the heck would I do with a 5 lb. bucket of industrial thermal paste after I've frittered away a day or two of my life testing thermal pastes? It's not like I can frost a cake with TIM or sprinkle it in my garden to make my veggies grow healthier.
And for what? To arrive at a list that probably looks close to the TH one? Maybe a couple of positions might be flipped but there's not going to be any major revelation. Someone at TH is getting PAID to do that testing.
To be honest if I wanted to dump a few hundred bucks on side-by-side product testing, it most certainly wouldn't be TIM. I'd pick something like wine, spirits, imported butter, cheeses, chocolate, something else. And I bet I could round up a few friends to help me with the trials.
Even testing bathroom cleaner would be better. At least I can use up a bottle of leftover cleaner or give it away.
Yo, I don't know what is going on in your life, and I'm sorry you're so upset. Please don't take it out on me, ok?
I thought it was understood that I have seen the TH list, and that I'm looking for what is NOT on the list that is bad. Start in the basement, work my way up. You don't have to appreciate, agree with, care about or help - that's your choice. I didn't ask for money or products or anything - just info. If you can't or won't help, that's completely ok. This is something I want to do and, since I've already got a bag of TIM, I might as well. If you don't want to, well, I didn't ask you to, and that's your choice anyways, not mine.
If my list ends up looking like TH's, I don't care. If it looks different, that's fine, too. I have a lack of faith in humanity, so I want to know for myself. I've seen too many shills, too many sell-outs, too many liars, and too many con-artists in my life to put significant trust in just about anyone. That's the sad fact of life. We're just pawns for the elites. Call them Illuminati, Free Masons, Satanists, politicians, lawyers, or whatever - it doesn't even matter. They are consumed by an insatiable desire for MORE, and most of them will throw anyone under the bullet train and then clean up the mess with a smile on their face.
I work for Amazon, which is a self-serving company that does NOT care about you, me or anyone, and is run by psychopaths, narcissists and sycophants. They screwed me over on a work injury by denying me worker's compensation after I spent 6 months doing a job that ruined my shoulder and they refused to give me the assistance that, by policy, was required, and now the financial support that they should. I hope someone puts a slug in Bezos's head by firing through every other senior member of that fucking company. They are shit on the shoe of the world and the worst part is that there are plenty of companies that are worse than Amazon.
I'm trying to get to a place in my life where I don't have to work for shitty companies like that, and pathetic human beings who just make Earth into Hell for their own gratification, and I know that it'll probably never happen, so I really don't need people raining on my intentions and plans with their negativity.
The irony of what YOU would do is:
1) I fully encourage you to go ahead and do it.
2) I do reviews of food and beverages too, and other stuff. I have reviewed over 200 chocolate bars and even did a 100+ bar comparison series, which fucked me up for a while because of how much sugar is in them.
3) The stuff I care about the most, which is certainly not product reviews and tech, almost no one has any interest in watching. I don't edit my videos, I don't agonize over the title and thumbnail. It is there if someone wants to learn from it. If not, that's not my problem.
4) You're not doing those things, are you? Get up off your ass and do it if that's what interests you, but don't come at people who are doing something that you don't want to do and don't value.
So, it boils down to this: I asked for info. If you want to contribute, fantastic. If you don't, then just don't respond. I don't need your negativity, so maybe you might want to think about reading the Power of Positive Thinking, the Magic of Thinking Big or some other self-help book to help you move past whatever has turned you into such an unhappy person. I wish you success with that. Truly.
I wonder how good no TIM is if one has lapped the surfaces to match.
I seem to recall that the 2 CV had cylinder heads that were lapped instead of a head gasket.
Someone did a video on YT about mating two surfaces by having them be super flat and smooth without the use of any kind of adhesive or whatever. Could've been Veritasium or Steve Mould, I don't recall. Here's a different one, though.
) , it is just an interface between your Die/IHS and the cooling solution that has to dissipiate the generated heat as quick as possible.
