Thermal paste applied on your GPU / CPU, survey!

dorsetknob · Jan 31, 2017

qubit said:
People on this thread don't really seem to know how to apply thermal paste, so here's an animation showing the correct way to do it. Watch the video carefully and note the special brand of thermal paste on the tube...

Click the picture for instructive animation.

@peche, @CAPSLOCKSTUCK, @dorsetknob, @rtwjunkie and @eidairaman1, I think you guys need the most help with this delicate operation.

last 2 builds i done recently (both just hardware test builds )
1st one qx6700 on a Asus P45 with an AIO water cooler( Temps 21c to 30c across 4 core's light load ) on win 7
2nd one a E7500 on a asrock 4core duel Sata hevy duty coppercore Stock cooler were fitted with zero thermal paste (24c to 28c on both cores ) on XP Pro SP3
Its an excellent Brand no mess easy to apply ( you don't) and cost nothing

tim application none spreading method none results Temps acceptable for light testing

peche · Jan 31, 2017

qubit said:
People on this thread don't really seem to know how to apply thermal paste, so here's an animation showing the correct way to do it. Watch the video carefully and note the special brand of thermal paste on the tube...

Click the picture for instructive animation.

@peche, @CAPSLOCKSTUCK, @dorsetknob, @rtwjunkie and @eidairaman1, I think you guys need the most help with this delicate operation.

wish i could do something for that delicate situation you got there but my knowledge isn't enough for that !

qubit said:
Yes, good point. It doesn't quite squish out the side enough, does it?

its about application method, he must use the "X" method for covering all surface!

R-T-B said:
Yeah. He could punch it hard to help that, but honestly just using more mayo would work too.

eidairaman1 · Jan 31, 2017

qubit said:
People on this thread don't really seem to know how to apply thermal paste, so here's an animation showing the correct way to do it. Watch the video carefully and note the special brand of thermal paste on the tube...

Click the picture for instructive animation.

@peche, @CAPSLOCKSTUCK, @dorsetknob, @rtwjunkie and @eidairaman1, I think you guys need the most help with this delicate operation.

Lmao!

SKBARON · Jan 31, 2017

qubit said:
People on this thread don't really seem to know how to apply thermal paste, so here's an animation showing the correct way to do it. Watch the video carefully and note the special brand of thermal paste on the tube...

Click the picture for instructive animation.

@peche, @CAPSLOCKSTUCK, @dorsetknob, @rtwjunkie and @eidairaman1, I think you guys need the most help with this delicate operation.

When repasting my friend's system his sister, being curious, asked what is the stuff we are using. Being from Eastern Europe, and due to the fact that we eat "borsch" with sour cream, I just told her it's sour cream. My friend being not so brilliant wanted to repaste his old system and luckily he asked me what % fat was the sour cream I used.

Now the moral of the story is: I can't help but imagine someone with less tech common sense coming across this post and actually applying mayo to the socket, people are sometimes overrated after all. So, maybe a tiny "do not try this at home" will be beneficial.

P.s: as to the poll, bought a tube of mx4 and repasted the system when I was home on vacation. It helped with the temps but not so much, compared to the old "kpt8" stuff I used(people from Ukraine and Russia will know what I am talking about).

peche · Jan 31, 2017

SKBARON said:
When repasting my friend's system his sister, being curious, asked what is the stuff we are using. Being from Eastern Europe, and due to the fact that we eat "borsch" with sour cream, I just told her it's sour cream. My friend being not so brilliant wanted to repaste his old system and luckily he asked me what % fat was the sour cream I used.

Now the moral of the story is: I can't help but imagine someone with less tech common sense coming across this post and actually applying mayo to the socket, people are sometimes overrated after all. So, maybe a tiny "do not try this at home" will be beneficial.

P.s: as to the poll, bought a tube of mx4 and repasted the system when I was home on vacation. It helped with the temps but not so much, compared to the old "kpt8" stuff I used(people from Ukraine and Russia will know what I am talking about).

i have cleaned so many computers with almost half syringe of cheap TIM cause some other "Stores" have made that mess, also there is a well known hardware repair shop that sucks, most of the f*cked computers on my town are cuz people use to trust'em once! then sad and unhappy customers look for other alternatives....
Re-pasting is maybe one of the most terrible performed tasks by hardware owners... and also i guess more than 60% of these attempts end worst than they were...

Regards,

Regards,

yesyesloud · Jan 31, 2017

peche said:
i have cleaned so many computers with almost half syringe of cheap TIM cause some other "Stores" have made that mess, also there is a well known hardware repair shop that sucks, most of the f*cked computers on my town are cuz people use to trust'em once! then sad and unhappy customers look for other alternatives....
Re-pasting is maybe one of the most terrible performed tasks by hardware owners... and also i guess more than 60% of these attempts end worst than they were...

Regards,

Regards,

That's why I love non-conductive compounds... If some traces around the cpu/socket go unchecked you can still dream well

peche · Feb 1, 2017

yesyesloud said:
That's why I love non-conductive compounds... If some traces around the cpu/socket go unchecked you can still dream well

which one its your preferred one ?
i love Arctic MX4, which is a great product, liquid metals are only used for delid purposes, i have heard that some people use liquid metals for waterblocks and GPU's, thats going to far for me,

@Knoxx29 tell us about your new experience using Kyronaut from Thermal Grizzly, how it is?
Regards,

FireFox · Feb 1, 2017

peche said:
@Knoxx29 tell us about your new experience using Kyronaut from Thermal Grizzly, how it is?

Te Kryonaut it's not that good as people say and it's expensive 1gr 8.79€ :eek:

i pay 16€ for 20gr of MX-4 and it's good as Kryonaut or even better, i removed it from my system and re-paste with MX-4, the rest of Kryonaut i put it in the bin.

That said, first time and last time that i use Kryonaut. :toast:

eidairaman1 · Feb 1, 2017

Knoxx29 said:
Te Kryonaut it's not that good as people say and it's expensive 1gr 8.79€ i pay 16€ for 20gr of MX-4 and it's good as Kryonaut or even better, i removed it from my system and re-paste with MX-4, the rest of Kryonaut i put it in the bin.

That said, first time and last time that i use Kryonaut.

I'd use it up on clients machine

dorsetknob · Feb 1, 2017

Knoxx29 said:
the rest of Kryonaut i put it in the bin.

That said, first time and last time that i use Kryonaut.

You Should have Posted it to @peche if you were unhappy with its Performance
I'm sure he would have Thoroughly Tested it and Reported his findings back to you

FireFox · Feb 1, 2017

dorsetknob said:
I'm sure he would have Thoroughly Tested it and Reported his findings back to you

I wouldn't bother sending that crap.

eidairaman1 · Feb 1, 2017

Knoxx29 said:
I wouldn't bother sending that crap.

Use it up till its gone on clients rigs.

peche · Feb 1, 2017

Knoxx29 said:
Te Kryonaut it's not that good as people say and it's expensive 1gr 8.79€ i pay 16€ for 20gr of MX-4 and it's good as Kryonaut or even better, i removed it from my system and re-paste with MX-4, the rest of Kryonaut i put it in the bin.

That said, first time and last time that i use Kryonaut.

well this completely changes my panorama, why cuz some pastes are claimed to be great, this one was too, so it is Arctic MX series, but there minimal bad comments beyond availability of this one, but its interesting to see that there are bad comments for it, tell us moar if possible dude! truly appreciated!

eidairaman1 said:
I'd use it up on clients machine

i do use other brands like Arctic silver and coolermaster ones instead Arctic mx on some repairs cuz customers ask for them,

dorsetknob said:
You Should have Posted it to @peche if you were unhappy with its Performance
I'm sure he would have Thoroughly Tested it and Reported his findings back to you

no, you are too wrong, this topic its about all related TIM's and how do they perform for you, its ultra acceptable that our dear friend alberto claims it to be horrible to use or perform,

Knoxx29 said:
I wouldn't bother sending that crap.

you might send it, ill test it and see how it performs for me, you know me pretty much!

eidairaman1 said:
Use it up till its gone on clients rigs.

you see! its about tests!

Regards,

GreiverBlade · Feb 1, 2017

Knoxx29 said:
Te Kryonaut it's not that good as people say and it's expensive 1gr 8.79€ i pay 16€ for 20gr of MX-4 and it's good as Kryonaut or even better, i removed it from my system and re-paste with MX-4, the rest of Kryonaut i put it in the bin.

well now it's official ... your are getting different result than me ... while the only difference in the test method, is the user ... :roll:

MX-4 i pay less for 4g than for 4g of TG TIM but (ML FRAKING ML NOT G!!! in ML comparison TG is above Arctic ... ) example: both have the same ML content but the TG is denser : more application, thus cheaper per applications ...
for thermal result ... well Kryo is quite above MX-4 (if you were comparing it with the Gelid GC-Extreme i would still understand. )

i have Kryonaut, Hydronaut, Aeronaut (that one is in phase of kicking definitively the AS5 and MX-2 when i do repast job for "customers") and Conductonaut ( tested on a A64 3000+ with a Alphacool Eisberg, beat by a small margin the Coolaboratory and Phobya Liquid metal ... but not much

although pricing is adequate for all of them, did not tested on a deliding for now ... just on a "hothothot" cpu

)

end word: it's not crap nor it's not the worst TIM ( a contrario ), why would it work perfectly for me and not for you ? i wonder...

peche said:
Arctic MX

Arctic (cooling) has only the MX series

edit: wow i forgot that i repasted my 6600K with CoolerMaster MasterGel Maker Nano when i swaped my gaming 5 to gaming 7 ...

@peche yep that one is good too ... and the price is a tad lower than the TG equivalent (it's between the Kryo and Hydro for the performances and for the price ) and for once ... a nano diamond TIM that does not eat your heatsink and CPU ...

peche · Feb 1, 2017

GreiverBlade said:
well now it's official ... your are getting different result than me ... while the only difference in the test method, is the user ...

MX-4 i pay less for 4g than for 4g of TG TIM but (ML FRAKING ML NOT G!!! in ML comparison TG is above Arctic ... ) example: both have the same ML content but the TG is denser : more application, thus cheaper per applications ...
for thermal result ... well Kryo is quite above MX-4 (if you were comparing it with the Gelid GC-Extreme i would still understand. )

i have Kryonaut, Hydronaut, Aeronaut (that one is in phase of kicking definitively the AS5 and MX-2 when i do repast job for "customers") and Conductonaut ( tested on a A64 3000+ with a Alphacool Eisberg, beat by a small margin the Coolaboratory and Phobya Liquid metal ... but not much although pricing is adequate for all of them, did not tested on a deliding for now ... just on a "hothothot" cpu )

end word: it's not crap nor it's not the worst TIM ( a contrario ), why would it work perfectly for me and not for you ? i wonder...

Arctic (cooling) has only the MX series

edit: wow i forgot that i repasted my 6600K with CoolerMaster MasterGel Maker Nano when i swaped my gaming 5 to gaming 7 ...

@peche yep that one is good too ... and the price is a tad lower than the TG equivalent (it's between the Kryo and Hydro for the performances and for the price ) and for once ... a nano diamond TIM that does not eat your heatsink and CPU ...

well its understood that application method could screw your results, but well its a well known issue that no the same pastes will perform exactly the same for all users, for example i find horrible to use Arctic silver 5 solution, and there is several people around the world claiming it to be the best one, so the thing here is try to gather moar info from knoxx, to see what happened there!

Regards,

FireFox · Feb 1, 2017

peche said:
moar info

More info?

It is a Crap :slap:

peche said:
to see what happened there!

It didn't happen nothing, the paste was applied in the same method i has always applied the MX-4

GreiverBlade · Feb 1, 2017

peche said:
well its understood that application method could screw your results, but well its a well known issue that no the same pastes will perform exactly the same for all users, for example i find horrible to use Arctic silver 5 solution, and there is several people around the world claiming it to be the best one, so the thing here is try to gather moar info from knoxx, to see what happened there!

Regards,

ask Der8Auer for more info on it :laugh:

can't go wrong with that guy :ohwell:

(or any other review that place that TIM on top of any charts just under any other LM TIM )

peche · Feb 1, 2017

GreiverBlade said:
ask Der8Auer for more info on it can't go wrong with that guy (or any other review that place that TIM on top of any charts just under any other LM TIM )

thanks! could you tag him to this post? i've tried but nothing happens there...

Regards,

GreiverBlade · Feb 2, 2017

peche said:
thanks! could you tag him to this post? i've tried but nothing happens there...

Regards,

not a member

http://der8auer.com/about-us/
https://www.youtube.com/user/der8auer/search?query=Thermal+Grizzly
Kryo was designed with LN2 in mind but do fine with water too

peche · Feb 2, 2017

GreiverBlade said:
not a member
http://der8auer.com/about-us/
https://www.youtube.com/user/der8auer/search?query=Thermal+Grizzly
Kryo was designed with LN2 in mind but do fine with water too

gotta investigate moar, thanks for the info!

Regards,

der8auer · Feb 2, 2017

peche said:
thanks! could you tag him to this post? i've tried but nothing happens there...

Regards,

I just randomly came across this topic haha. How can I help?

FireFox · Feb 2, 2017

der8auer said:
I just randomly came across this topic haha. How can I help?

I guess @peche

He has a few questions about some thermal paste.

peche · Feb 2, 2017

der8auer said:
I just randomly came across this topic haha. How can I help?

hi, another fella here claimed you to know pretty much about Thermal Grizzly, could you explain us about it, what di you know about this TIM?

Knoxx29 said:
I guess @peche

He has a few questions about some thermal paste.

thanks for the mention mate!

Regards,

FireFox · Feb 2, 2017

peche said:
thanks for the mention mate!

Anytime.

Chaitanya · Feb 2, 2017

I still have 2-3 tubes of Arctic silver 5 lying around. So unless those tubes are over I cant see myself using any other brand of thermal compound.

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