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for just ten dollars this tub of goop

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can give you more FPS oh at least it can according to computer systems who made

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it to put their claims to the test we're gonna be removing the stock thermal pads

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from an x-17 and a 30-90 applying this

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goop and reassembling it all to see how much improvement we can get is it worth

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there are kind of two types of weird thermal things that we find the first is

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someone realizes gamers have a lot of money and they want that money and the

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second is someone has a use case in industry and they find it after the fact

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it's good for gamers this fortunately is in the latter group k5 pro came about

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because the founders were just working at a computer repair shop they were

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having a lot of issues with devices coming back to them and they realized

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that a lot of the time the problem were just old worn out thermal pads a thermal

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pad is a specific thickness like this one right here is one millimeter so they

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would have to go in measure it and if you get it wrong your

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device overheats and it does now it just so happens that they also were working

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at a university so they did the thing you do when you work in a university the

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result of all of their rnd is this right here k5 pro it's a goop instead of a pad

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so they can just slop it in and apparently it's way more conductive than

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a thermal pad as well and can have performance gains in like you know

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something like this right here our test today is pretty simple first we're going

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to just run them stock find out you know baseline numbers then replace the

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thermal paste with thermal grizzly cryonaut from there we're going to tear

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it apart again replace the thermal pads with k5 pro

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and cryonot to find out basically the maximum performance of these things with

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their current coolers we're going to use furmark f1 2020 and 3dmark to hopefully

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give us a good range of stuff and i'm gonna go eat some lunch and see in 15

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minutes first round of tests are nearly done laptops all good GPU still needs to

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run 3d mark once but then we're totally good you look at our

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results here the longer the firmware goes the GPU just slowly gets slower and

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slower and slower are you excited for tearing this laptop apart yeah now i was

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a bit of a dum-dum and decided to use the alienware x17

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and like i want to do that because it's really fast and

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i like it as a laptop but doing this was really stupid because the disassembly

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process it's not easy this is not a simple laptop to take apart good job

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alex smart thinking everything that you need like ssds battery

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RAM is all pretty easy to access cooler not so much it's on the other side of

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this do you like taking laptops apart david

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not even a little battery first

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people always get really mad at me when i don't do that you might be wondering

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given how much of a pain in the ass this is to disassemble why i choose to use it

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the main reason is that most of our other really fast laptops are from ASUS

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and ASUS uses thermal paste on their vrm's instead of thermal pads which

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means switching it to k5 pro isn't really going to give you much of a

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benefit what do you think the chances are that there's a random cable on the

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bottom that i need to disconnect david pretty good wow

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okay wow that's a lot of cooling 17 CPU

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barrier wait so it looks like that we have

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liquid metal on the CPU but the GPU is

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just regular everyday thermal paste so

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do we replace the liquid metal david i kind of feel like we should okay you do

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it oh spread around liquid metal a piece of crap now we just have to put it back

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together and hope it all works here we go

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might have got a little bit of liquid metal on there

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yeah perfect she works good now

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we get to take apart a GPU i really hope that ASUS made this easy

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to disassemble with them it's normally kind of a toss-up with the gpus while we

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take apart the GPU let's get the laptop on the go initial looks seems very close

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to stock oh these are the guys where we'll probably

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get a lot of benefit from it getting replaced

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this screw is basically stripped from the factory that's going to make getting

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it back in a joy oh i hate doing this so much oh

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one thing that's worth noting is that on cards and particularly motherboards the

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really high end models with really high-end vrms might benefit less from k5

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pro than a lower end model because these right here are probably very efficient

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and kept quite cool by all of this heatsink

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all right GPU re-paste was a success laptop also looks like it's doing pretty

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good yeah it's not even thermal throttling on the CPU so i guess our

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liquid metalling is better than alienwares see in another 30 minutes

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my first impressions are it's pretty much margin of error between the two

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thermal pastes i mean dell did a great job and so did ASUS i'm not super

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surprised given that these are incredibly high-end devices

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now the fun begins um and off the second time cooler comes

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off get rid of these stupid little thermal pads one millimeter up to about

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three millimeters it still is good

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above that what you want to do is have like a paste copper shim and then

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paste again yeah thermodynamics is freaking weird i'm going to start just

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applying this as we go you cannot really

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have too much oh this is making a mess although that's a

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good thing if you have too much of it it's going to squish out and you'll be

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fine if you don't have enough of it you'll have an air gap

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and your components are going to overheat and die the other benefit is

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that it can actually stop condensation from forming now why should this stuff

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be better than a thermal pad this copper although it may look fairly smooth on a

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microscopic level is a whole bunch of little hills and valleys and crap and

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that's what your thermal interface needs to get rid of a thermal pad gets you

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about 60 percent contact on the surface

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whereas the k5 pro is able to fill in 99

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of all those hills and valleys oh my god

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beautiful isn't it one thing you might be wondering looking

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at this is how do you get rid of it when i asked

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computer systems about it they were kind of like why would you

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it just works it's incredibly stable why would you ever replace it but apparently

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if you just soak it in alcohol for a bit you can wipe it off and it's not too bad

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how much squish do you expect david yeah i'm hoping for a lot of squish

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oh bit of smoosh there we're just protecting our components i

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was expecting this to be way grosser looking we used under a tub of the stuff

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for the laptop given we have a bunch of two millimeter ones on here we're gonna

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need quite a bit for this GPU

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it's so goopy oh geez i will not let you down computer systems

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it is really important on chips like this that you cover the entire thing

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because there probably isn't much temperature sensing besides maybe a

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single probe in this so if you miss half of it it might overheat and not even

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know that it's overheating and kill itself oh

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they can't say i didn't use enough tub number three

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oh i'm having a lot of fun but this may be disturbing to some viewers

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where would you rank this on like the tech gore you've seen david oh six out

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of ten now all we have to do is run the tests this is going to be a bit more

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involved figuring out if it worked or not because it isn't a simple look at

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temperature it good it's more like i

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have to go through all the frame times organize it and then we'll be able to

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tell you if it worked or not all right it's the next morning and i've crunched

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the numbers on the rtx 3090 the results are very clear the re-paste got us more

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FPS 17 more actually infirmark and the k5 pro got us an additional 4 FPS for a

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total gain of 21. this translates into a

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6.3 increase in FPS and i've seen a lot

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of people go to a lot more trouble than this for

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less gains really in f1 2020 uh

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it's a CPU bound game so there was no change

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as for the alienware x17

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uh if you want to re-paste it don't turns out their extra special element 31

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that they talked about a whole bunch uh yeah it kicks ass so when we replaced it

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our performance dropped by seven FPS infermark and in f120 21 we lost three

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FPS fortunately we were able to make up some of that by adding the k5 pro so our

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losses were halved in fermark and in f1 2021 we saw an incredible gain of 1 FPS

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meaning that having your vrm's better cool on this laptops can make up for

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worse CPU temperatures so am i going to put k5 pro on everything

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well the impressive part of this is that the k5 pro was able to give us

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performance gains in brand new devices and brand new thermal pads if your

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laptop or GPU is around two or three years old and you're already planning a

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re-paste i think including a tub of this stuff makes a lot of sense i'm probably

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gonna order a bulk jar so that i don't have to use the stupid thermal pads that

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come with water blocks and cut them and stuff also applying it's pretty fun i

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maybe watch the one where we water cooled the area 51m that was uh

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that was brutal