tech ingredients are back with even bolder claims taking on multi-million
dollar manufacturers with just a few common liquids and conductive powders in
the past they created what they claimed was the world's highest performing
thermal compound but that was a thermal epoxy not a thermal paste so expectedly
it could not take on this tube now though
no excuses can this homebrew paste outperform a top tier tim let's find out
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this is what we have right here the tech ingredients high performance thermal
paste it even came with a nice little letter for us we can put that away
though now in their video they did an incredible job of just isolating every
single variable i think that they made a test chamber that was good to 0.2 of a
degree celsius and they had surfaces that were properly prepped and clamping
forces i don't really care about any of that i am without sure that this is the
best thermal paste for their test apparatus what the test apparatus is not
is a real oil computer now we don't have like the proper thermal testing heater
thing but we have a 10 900k which is
about as good as you can get to a thermal load and this is not your normal
10900k we have it on a maximus from aces
and we have it overclocked so much 4.9 gigahertz all cores
1.42 volts voltage locked core locked
very consistent 204 watts every single
time that we hit it awesome a lot of thermal pastes you can get
really conductive ones and they still kind of suck so a good example of that
this is ic diamond it's an incredibly high performing thermal compound in
certain situations so when you have a water cooler which has a much higher
mounting pressure typically it'll do well when you have an air cooler it
doesn't always squish out enough now something like nth2 they specifically
don't tell you the thermal conductivity of it on the website and i talked to an
octawa and it has a really low thermal conductivity but they were like it
doesn't matter it's what performs the best
for an air cooler so let's do a squish test
let's do a little bit of ic diamond here first this is our non-scientific but
visually interesting squish test is this tube empty oh there we go
oh sorry about your acrylic calling
twice we're controlling the weight based on
how much i press on it so as you can see this one's not spreading out a whole lot
that worked pretty well and when i let off it didn't stop working well not too bad for icy
diamond but i think nth2 will do better
air drying off the alcohol let's see how this one spreads out oh yeah that's
spreading out so much more you can even see how it's kind of going into the
little pocket at the very edges as opposed to just being a blob
and how does the tech ingredients compare so this immediately seems
slightly thicker than nocta was but nowhere near as thick oh that's a good
spread but i don't know that it's going as far as the Noctua did it is slowly
making its way and doing the similar kind of void filling thing that the
Noctua was but not quite to the same degree take this result with an absolute
grain of salt but it does look like that knock to his paste which is famous for
having good spread spreads out better it is a good result another thing i'm
curious about before we really get into our test bench is is this stuff
electrically conductive one not too difficult way to get a really thermally
conductive thing is just chuck a whole bunch of graphene in there or a whole
bunch of metal in there and then maybe it does work well until it squishes out
onto your CPU and kills it this is again not a scientific test it's more of just
a pass yes no is it electrically conductive yeah like that
like that okay
this is again horribly unscientific
resistance zero these probes are about as close as
you can get in the thermal compound and i think you're safe no worries about
getting this stuff on your CPU we're doing our test today in Linus's office
so we have the thermostat right over there and we're able to keep it within
about a degree maybe two degrees somewhere in there either way we know
that the temperature in here is a bit of a problem so we record it all with this
fluke right here start and end of the test and we're going for 30 minutes for
each one so you might be able to see if the hvac kicks in we'll hit steady state
and then it'll sort of bop back and forth just a tiny bit we'll also be
running each test three times with a separate application every single time
between each test what we'll be doing is using paper towel wipe it off and Noctua
alcohol wipe wipe it off again and then you just let it dry and hopefully it's
good we're not using toluene that's yeah that's we're not doing that
if we did it like he would i would have projectiled after half of those white
claws like i have a nice little dot about that size
grab your piece of crap by piece of crap i mean the best air
cooler on the market maybe
that's pretty damn good as you would expect for these Intel chips it doesn't
matter as much if the whole thing's covered in thermal compound because the
dye is just right in the center but on an AMD one where the chips are kind of
spread across you want really good coverage one thing that's kind of worth
noting here is that it's not super fair to be using nth2 and
an nhd15 because this has obviously been
tested with this cooler specifically to perform the best but it's also kind of a
worst case scenario for these guys because if they can't beat the tube it comes with like
whatever i do really think that it will be the
spread that either does it or doesn't get them for it because this paste is
designed specifically for the roughness of this cooler
all of our cores 4.9 gigahertz beautiful what do you think this one will get to
i'm guessing like close to 90 like this is a lot of power going through it it
does look like we're getting our 204 watts it went up to 207 but under 210
over 200. come back in 30 minutes yep
cool see you then well it's been an hour and a half and this really shows us how
important doing multiple tests is i don't know that we're going to be able
to get a proper result out of this but we'll be able to know
the ballpark so these are our three
tests there's like a two degree change
in ambient temperature and there's a five degree change in maximum
temperature achieved i have no clue why it might be the thermal paste
application but it was pretty damn consistent here are the photos um we
have the CPU power here again really
consistent i don't have a good explanation but we're going to run three
tests of this stuff and see how all three of them stack up against this
taken average and we'll be able to know at least if it's maybe better or worse
than mth2 also it's without a doubt better than a thermal pad we already
tested that and it did terribly it was like 89 degrees instead of like 85. it
didn't spread out quite as much as their last one with the Noctua but i think
that's within margin of error for sure just how i put it on
i'm sorry tech grandpa if this is not as scientific as you would have liked
unfortunately this is the real world where things are annoying looks like
we're idling right around 30 degrees
but who cares it's a load that we care about so let's go now we wait
and we're back test has been running for 40 minutes and uh our CPU package is
sitting at 85 degrees i think our Noctua was like 84. so we're right in the
running there uh we did go up
by about half a degree in the room so now we're going to save this log we're
going to remove the cooler wipe down the paste clean it up all again do the exact
same seating method and run another bench for another 30 minutes and then we
can aggregate all of our data together now if you haven't experienced thermal
paste on your clothes you're gonna love it never comes off all right so this is
our final test here and it looks like 86
degrees for this one so here are all three of our results you can see in this
blue one right here it's very clear where the ac kicks in it drops down and
comes back up but it's not as spread as the Noctua maybe it's easier to apply
this one that's the only thing that i could think but it's hard to say given
our test set up yeah this is sort of thing where we could do
20 tests but i don't know that we're going to come up with anything different
than this so let's bring in one of the noctu ones here can you tell which one
it is oh it's the green one i think it's really safe to say that these two
thermal pastes are equivalent like i cannot say that one is better or worse
than the other but i can without a doubt say that this one was made in a shed and
this one was made by a company that's been around for years and is one of the
best thermal producers so actual value this tube right here is what 28.95 this
one's i think 24. way more pace for 24.
this is essentially a one-off so like i'm really impressed also this is
version one this is the first time they've done this and
they've matched Noctua damn i have no clue how this stuff was made but i am
excited to find out tech grandpa drop the video soon please
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