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tech ingredients are back with even bolder claims taking on multi-million

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dollar manufacturers with just a few common liquids and conductive powders in

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the past they created what they claimed was the world's highest performing

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thermal compound but that was a thermal epoxy not a thermal paste so expectedly

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it could not take on this tube now though

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no excuses can this homebrew paste outperform a top tier tim let's find out

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the link down below

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this is what we have right here the tech ingredients high performance thermal

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paste it even came with a nice little letter for us we can put that away

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though now in their video they did an incredible job of just isolating every

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single variable i think that they made a test chamber that was good to 0.2 of a

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degree celsius and they had surfaces that were properly prepped and clamping

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forces i don't really care about any of that i am without sure that this is the

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best thermal paste for their test apparatus what the test apparatus is not

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is a real oil computer now we don't have like the proper thermal testing heater

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thing but we have a 10 900k which is

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about as good as you can get to a thermal load and this is not your normal

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10900k we have it on a maximus from aces

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and we have it overclocked so much 4.9 gigahertz all cores

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1.42 volts voltage locked core locked

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very consistent 204 watts every single

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time that we hit it awesome a lot of thermal pastes you can get

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really conductive ones and they still kind of suck so a good example of that

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this is ic diamond it's an incredibly high performing thermal compound in

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certain situations so when you have a water cooler which has a much higher

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mounting pressure typically it'll do well when you have an air cooler it

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doesn't always squish out enough now something like nth2 they specifically

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don't tell you the thermal conductivity of it on the website and i talked to an

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octawa and it has a really low thermal conductivity but they were like it

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doesn't matter it's what performs the best

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for an air cooler so let's do a squish test

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let's do a little bit of ic diamond here first this is our non-scientific but

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visually interesting squish test is this tube empty oh there we go

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oh sorry about your acrylic calling

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twice we're controlling the weight based on

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how much i press on it so as you can see this one's not spreading out a whole lot

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that worked pretty well and when i let off it didn't stop working well not too bad for icy

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diamond but i think nth2 will do better

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air drying off the alcohol let's see how this one spreads out oh yeah that's

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spreading out so much more you can even see how it's kind of going into the

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little pocket at the very edges as opposed to just being a blob

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and how does the tech ingredients compare so this immediately seems

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slightly thicker than nocta was but nowhere near as thick oh that's a good

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spread but i don't know that it's going as far as the Noctua did it is slowly

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making its way and doing the similar kind of void filling thing that the

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Noctua was but not quite to the same degree take this result with an absolute

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grain of salt but it does look like that knock to his paste which is famous for

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having good spread spreads out better it is a good result another thing i'm

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curious about before we really get into our test bench is is this stuff

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electrically conductive one not too difficult way to get a really thermally

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conductive thing is just chuck a whole bunch of graphene in there or a whole

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bunch of metal in there and then maybe it does work well until it squishes out

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onto your CPU and kills it this is again not a scientific test it's more of just

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a pass yes no is it electrically conductive yeah like that

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like that okay

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this is again horribly unscientific

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resistance zero these probes are about as close as

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you can get in the thermal compound and i think you're safe no worries about

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getting this stuff on your CPU we're doing our test today in Linus's office

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so we have the thermostat right over there and we're able to keep it within

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about a degree maybe two degrees somewhere in there either way we know

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that the temperature in here is a bit of a problem so we record it all with this

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fluke right here start and end of the test and we're going for 30 minutes for

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each one so you might be able to see if the hvac kicks in we'll hit steady state

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and then it'll sort of bop back and forth just a tiny bit we'll also be

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running each test three times with a separate application every single time

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between each test what we'll be doing is using paper towel wipe it off and Noctua

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alcohol wipe wipe it off again and then you just let it dry and hopefully it's

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good we're not using toluene that's yeah that's we're not doing that

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if we did it like he would i would have projectiled after half of those white

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claws like i have a nice little dot about that size

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grab your piece of crap by piece of crap i mean the best air

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cooler on the market maybe

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that's pretty damn good as you would expect for these Intel chips it doesn't

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matter as much if the whole thing's covered in thermal compound because the

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dye is just right in the center but on an AMD one where the chips are kind of

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spread across you want really good coverage one thing that's kind of worth

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noting here is that it's not super fair to be using nth2 and

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an nhd15 because this has obviously been

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tested with this cooler specifically to perform the best but it's also kind of a

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worst case scenario for these guys because if they can't beat the tube it comes with like

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whatever i do really think that it will be the

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spread that either does it or doesn't get them for it because this paste is

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designed specifically for the roughness of this cooler

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all of our cores 4.9 gigahertz beautiful what do you think this one will get to

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i'm guessing like close to 90 like this is a lot of power going through it it

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does look like we're getting our 204 watts it went up to 207 but under 210

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over 200. come back in 30 minutes yep

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cool see you then well it's been an hour and a half and this really shows us how

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important doing multiple tests is i don't know that we're going to be able

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to get a proper result out of this but we'll be able to know

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the ballpark so these are our three

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tests there's like a two degree change

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in ambient temperature and there's a five degree change in maximum

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temperature achieved i have no clue why it might be the thermal paste

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application but it was pretty damn consistent here are the photos um we

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have the CPU power here again really

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consistent i don't have a good explanation but we're going to run three

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tests of this stuff and see how all three of them stack up against this

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taken average and we'll be able to know at least if it's maybe better or worse

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than mth2 also it's without a doubt better than a thermal pad we already

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tested that and it did terribly it was like 89 degrees instead of like 85. it

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didn't spread out quite as much as their last one with the Noctua but i think

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that's within margin of error for sure just how i put it on

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i'm sorry tech grandpa if this is not as scientific as you would have liked

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unfortunately this is the real world where things are annoying looks like

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we're idling right around 30 degrees

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but who cares it's a load that we care about so let's go now we wait

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and we're back test has been running for 40 minutes and uh our CPU package is

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sitting at 85 degrees i think our Noctua was like 84. so we're right in the

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running there uh we did go up

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by about half a degree in the room so now we're going to save this log we're

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going to remove the cooler wipe down the paste clean it up all again do the exact

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same seating method and run another bench for another 30 minutes and then we

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can aggregate all of our data together now if you haven't experienced thermal

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paste on your clothes you're gonna love it never comes off all right so this is

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our final test here and it looks like 86

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degrees for this one so here are all three of our results you can see in this

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blue one right here it's very clear where the ac kicks in it drops down and

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comes back up but it's not as spread as the Noctua maybe it's easier to apply

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this one that's the only thing that i could think but it's hard to say given

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our test set up yeah this is sort of thing where we could do

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20 tests but i don't know that we're going to come up with anything different

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than this so let's bring in one of the noctu ones here can you tell which one

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it is oh it's the green one i think it's really safe to say that these two

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thermal pastes are equivalent like i cannot say that one is better or worse

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than the other but i can without a doubt say that this one was made in a shed and

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this one was made by a company that's been around for years and is one of the

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best thermal producers so actual value this tube right here is what 28.95 this

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one's i think 24. way more pace for 24.

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this is essentially a one-off so like i'm really impressed also this is

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version one this is the first time they've done this and

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they've matched Noctua damn i have no clue how this stuff was made but i am

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excited to find out tech grandpa drop the video soon please

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