{"video_id":"9xncum0d4Vk","title":"Can we make DIY Thermal Paste??","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2019-05-06T14:53:45Z","duration_s":1298,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.68,"text":"i'm not totally sure how many people","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.28,"end_s":10.0,"text":"would recommend this but uh all of us pc building tech dweebs","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.0,"end_s":18.48,"text":"already know about thermal paste okay aka the hot stuff aka the gray goo aka","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.36,"end_s":20.8,"text":"grammy's old sandwich spread what but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.48,"end_s":25.279,"text":"what if you're out of thermal paste yeah you could just go order more pick some","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.8,"end_s":29.599,"text":"up from ncix or you could make your own Linus actually","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.76,"end_s":34.0,"text":"got 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many people would recommend this but uh all of us pc building tech dweebs already know about thermal paste okay aka the hot stuff aka the gray goo aka grammy's old sandwich spread what but what if you're out of thermal paste yeah you could just go order more pick some up from ncix or you could make your own Linus actually got an email from a fan suggesting we do this so in this video we are going back to chemistry class and finding out whether any of these materials can work as a thermal paste substitute because Linus isn't here and he can't stop us but i do have alex here to make sure that i don't uh blow up this pc with nutella because that that's a real possibility what the hex gears impulse mechanical keyboard has RGB lighting a variety of different key switches and ip56 water resistance so it can survive some of your worst spills use offer code LTT to save ten dollars at the link below as alex could tell you but i will instead the there's two main things [ __ ] guys i'm not Linus you'll get there sadly okay so the main purpose of thermal paste is to assist the heat transfer between the CPU and the heat sink when you put them together because you put them together but there's still a little bit of gaps in between so what do we need thermal paste to do what are the two main qualifications we're looking for so i guess the first one is that it needs to be really easily spreadable so like you have all those little dips and stuff and you want to just fill those in you don't want to be creating like a layer between your CPU and your heatsink right and the other thing is that it has to be really good thermally conductive so you don't have just like a bunch of resistance between the two you want that heat to be transferred yeah okay so with those qualifications there are a large number of materials that we could potentially use with varying efficiencies so so what do we have here okay so some of you might be familiar with this toothpaste a lot of people have tried it and we're not going to try it by itself today because it's been tried a lot but it's actually a surprisingly effective substitute the problem is that it's got fluoride in it and that means it's slightly corrosive and it also tends to dry out very easily so what we're gonna mix it with thanks to some tips on the internet is petroleum jelly aka vaseline uh but this is the no-name brand because really bad stuff and why is it bad it's chunky oh that's true but if we mix it together i don't know i mean this is a smooth type of toothpaste because the main thing when you're using toothpaste you don't want the the gritty kind with like the little beads in it or whatever we'll just do it should we just do it yeah i want to just do it okay um uh you could oh dear yes maybe i feel like that's slightly dangerous why you're a monster alex what CPU is this also uh that's a 7980xc jesus so maybe we don't want to get toothpaste alex like a 2 000 processor you're supposed to rain me in i'm not supposed to rain you in what are we doing here ah i don't know this seems to be working okay like i don't think it's the way that you thought that you know that's true well i think we're about good like okay yeah you want to try it like that yep the wrong way all right well you've made your bed and now we're gonna lie in it i guess so i'm guessing that you've already done the testing i ran a baseline with real thermal paste and i also ran it bareback as they say did you find a board that doesn't have a power button on it no it has a power button ready whoa it's on it works yes so we just gotta boot it up and then run ida 64 a little bit and stress test it and see whether uh the computer will explode that's how we know right yeah yeah all right i had a 64. um where do we have the wait it should come up automatically because i'm a pr i'm a programmer i'm a big big tech hacker look at that oh geez wow that's fancy see that's what the toothpaste does oh that's pretty good uh like 20 degrees idling very nice um what was our baseline head over to documents bareback and baseline so baseline we're looking at a max of what 65 degrees package got up to 70 hottest core 65 bareback we are looking at 104 degrees yep that's not great yeah when i did the bareback it just shot right up past 100 so so let's see here toothpaste and vaseline is looking um actually not bad your CPU package is already at 68. uh hottest core okay so we're at 65 already so we're not beating thermal pace that is for sure things go real slow when you're stress testing the CPU that's what i learned and which i already know that's only like five degrees over like actual thermal paste though so it's a way better option than just not having anything that's very true so if you're like really in a bind you're like i gotta get my old my dad's old dell from when i was a small child up and running immediately right now not bad not horrible one of them got up to 79. that's too hot i wouldn't go outside if it was that hot so that one was kind of a joke all right guys but this next one actually might work as a real substitute because what we're using is silicon grease o-ring lube it's what o-ring lube it's o-ring lube and that's not something dirty it's just things that you use for o-rings yeah yeah so we're actually combining silicon grease with drum roll please diamond powder cool i didn't even know that was a thing but it is so we're basically using the diamond as the thermal conductor and the silicone grease as the medium for that uh material we're not just throwing this on okay we're gonna mix it properly this is a science this is a science laboratory and i won't stand for your nonsense so before if you're gonna deal with diamond powder at all guys we need masks all right and i'm really glad that alex brought that up yeah let's do that i would have remembered about the masks okay yeah after you started coughing so this is what zero to one don't open it yet don't open it yet zero to one micron diamond powder i guess this is traditionally used for like polishing mirrors oh it's 25 carats 25 carat oh okay so the ratio we're supposed to use is around 60 40. whatever that means um i'm just gonna eyeball it then yep papa alex so is this kind of just like making icy diamond like i see diamond has diamonds in it right yeah and it kind of looks like it too do you think we need more grease in there yeah maybe a bit should i be wearing gloves that's probably fine got some icy diamond for comparison oh wow that's dark yeah this is a lot thicker than other thermal pastes so how much did this diamond powder cost for that package it was like 15 bucks or something oh this is also a super weird application well you're taking your mask off yeah what are you doing the dust isn't around anymore we're good oh no science class is not in session anymore well except for the science we're doing right here yeah except yeah except for those yeah we do what we must because we can that is a proverb and a half right there all right so idle looking like 30 degrees that feels like it's higher than what it was last time but uh the diamond powder and the silicone grease is uh this is a little bit more of a practical uh alternative you're not just like trying to get something up and running right away you're like you know what screw the system i'm making my own thermal paste i'm growing my own tomatoes in my backyard that's that's what that's who this is for yeah but it's working really bad this is like when you when you try and make tomatoes in your backyard and then you know the deers eat them and yeah and it ends up that you weren't even growing tomatoes the whole time they were like it was actually weed yeah all right so this here is my idea we've got some rapid tap you want to use rapid tap instead of silicon grease yeah okay what if the problem also could be that our diamonds are just too big and we need smaller ones could you imagine just having like a great big diamond in the middle i also don't know if rapid tap is electrically conductive it probably is so we definitely will not want to be getting this on anywhere that's not the CPU okay i guess we're about to get good to go for this thing cool for your your my luby concoction this was not endorsed by my internet sources so no guarantees that it will perform as well as our homemade diamond paste i think it's gonna be better this is actually like how you would use this normally you'd like combine it with an oil and then spread it out on like a surface plate and polish something speaking of which do you want to do that after i do what i'm seeing 67 77 i think your diamond paste like it's worse than toothpaste and petroleum jelly buy quite a bit so don't don't go up buying diamonds just use your freaking toothpaste you know diamonds are kind of useless like they cost a lot and they don't really do anything except look pretty i thought this would be one functional application bye see you later see you later i think mustard is going to destroy this oh my gosh um you know you put your faith in something and then it just lets you down yeah and then you go all the way down hit rock bottom and try mustard here we go starting the test i see 47 52 57 58 we're still doing better than the diamond at this point 63. so basically condiments are way better than diamond powder what the hell okay we just had 74 but it's like this is usable this is an 18 core processor you know what this means we got to build a liquid-cooled pc just using condiments well it works so great with concrete so yeah i think we can call that basically a win for mustard all right well so it seems like anything besides diamond paste as far as uh last minute things go not the worst surprisingly okay let's move on yep so the thing about nutella it's the only stuff here that i kind of want to eat way too much so that's actually not coming off do you get mustard off we need actually like soap we've cooked the mustard onto the metal now we're gonna now we're in a bit of a pickle what okay hold on hold on hold on it's wet dude it's dripping yeah exactly because we need to get it off okay but what about this uh so let's just kind of pack that around the CPU uh alex is supposed to keep me in check for this video i find myself stressing out look if we wreck this board it's your fault oh that's fine i think it's all good it's only like a little bit of water that's around there now and it's basically all gone so yes this is what we thought would do better than mustard i'm not so confident anymore you know being a cameraman is hard work i understand that here you go david yeah yeah there you go how's that that was weird in a university while i was studying for exams one time i just like downed a whole bottle of nutella much like i had it there just like with a spoon and then um threw up violently and i didn't eat nutella for like six or so years after that you do weird things nutella addiction is a scourge a scourge it's no joke let's see if nutella is really gets results that are just as nutty as it is okay uh so we're looking already at 52 degrees up 60 i see 63 65 71 okay this is not gonna be as good as mustard so i wasn't really joking when i said we might blow up the pc with nutella no it might be worse than diamond paste everything is terrible i guess uh sugar and fat content isn't everything maybe we should just put a ferrero rocher just like right in the middle okay now actually i'm expecting this to maybe do okay because it's 40 zinc oxide is that good which is the main ingredient in some thermal pastes and and i don't know why uh zinc oxide would be helpful to uh baby bums but it might be helpful to this baby bum right here all right okay 69. not not worse than mustard mustard we're one degree off from mustard though i think that we might find out that mustard is your best bet like mustard is probably better than some budget thermal pastes so this is officially worse than mustard for like a few minutes for diaper rash cream yeah true it is diaper rash cream and it's not gonna dry out we're only six degrees up yeah six degrees isn't too bad i really did not think any of this hey what is that you wanna whoa that right there is a lapping plate this is so heavy what are we gonna do with this solid steel so stick it right on top well but like the whole point of thermal paste is to fill in the gaps but what if there were no gaps yeah much like tender dates everywhere we are going to just try and do it with no thermal paste and i didn't say that quite right yeah whenever i go on dates and they don't have thermal paste man i'm just gone yeah we need just a little bit of this polishing compound polishing compound is that like diamond powder yeah diamond powder actually is a polishing compound of sorts gonna just throw some rapid tap in here bam do a little stir yeah now we just have to put it on the lapping plate and go ham very rhythmic you're essentially grinding down the surface of the heatsink block yes so that it's smooth as a baby's bottom smoother even if you want to get the CPU out so we can oh so wait you're gonna drag the CPU across that yep that's that's the plan i didn't know that adding alex to this video would make it more off the walls wow that's turning into just copper now all of the protective coating is just leaving so i'm going to need to step up to a lower grip but higher cutting power i have never done CPU lapping before it is a thing that lots of people do to improve performance we aren't doing this to improve performance but uh we're doing it to prove that protection is for the weak yeah people please don't have that be your takeaway here i don't feel amazing about this things weren't quite as flat as i thought that they were at the beginning so we've had to take off a lot more material than i thought and i'm afraid that we're still quite a ways off of being flat so like you can see kind of like here we haven't even touched it with the surface plate yet and right there as well so that means that there are really big high spots there and there so kind of like around the edges here and in the center was a lot higher than like because it would be contacting the silicon around here and then right around the die it was higher i'm a bit concerned about how much crap i got all over the CPU around like these little resistors here i'm not sure how i'm going to get that out on the other edge there's like it's just kind of all over the place uh i'm not totally sure what to do the thing that riley brought me in so that things wouldn't be dying like geez this is um i'm not totally sure how many people would recommend this but uh i certainly wouldn't oh jeez louise we have and we haven't even told Linus we're doing this so hopefully he was going to come around the corner the thing is that when you use water and you like put it all over a processor the water can kind of stick around so you want to just dunk it in alcohol first yeah why not and then that shows it away and we should be about good to go definitely do that i have no doubts that this will work flawlessly good me too sometimes you play with a 2 000 processor hopefully you didn't break it here we go was this worth possibly killing the processor we will find out questionable for sure but um was it worth it for the views though if we get them most people have turned off the videos yeah everyone's gone we got into the BIOS yep didn't kill it excellent so we're idling at about 20 28 degrees or so um which is about the same as last time so we might be able to actually beat like nutella or um diamond paste using this being 80 oh that's cloud that's climbing fast right that's climbing really fast beat the diamond paste 89 we we still have a little bit of room still a little bit 90. it's a really similar trajectory to the diamond pace 93. see but that's what's that's so surprising like why was the diamond paste so bad i don't know because this is bareback and it's it's doing very similar this has nothing and it's doing very similarly so it's back down to like 93 degrees so okay flattening it did help a bit it seems to be better than the diamonds but uh so if you want to keep uh under load you know you want to keep it at a nice frosty 94 then flattening is yeah it's great good to go but i guess if you actually want to keep it cool toothpaste and petroleum jelly excellent option yeah diaper rash cream also pretty good if you have it around yeah not horrible mustard surprising winter but also got toasted and surprisingly diamond powder with anything not as good as we thought so i see diamond must have some sort of like secret you know secret recipe or something yeah or it's just way finer than what we had or something i don't know at the end of the day you know we found that some materials can actually work for a hot minute or minutes but on the whole you probably want to use thermal paste so if you're if you're really desperate you might turn 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