for just ten dollars this tub of goop
can give you more FPS oh at least it can according to computer systems who made
it to put their claims to the test we're gonna be removing the stock thermal pads
from an x-17 and a 30-90 applying this
goop and reassembling it all to see how much improvement we can get is it worth
what i'm sure will be a huge mess i don't know but i am sure i want to tell
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there are kind of two types of weird thermal things that we find the first is
someone realizes gamers have a lot of money and they want that money and the
second is someone has a use case in industry and they find it after the fact
it's good for gamers this fortunately is in the latter group k5 pro came about
because the founders were just working at a computer repair shop they were
having a lot of issues with devices coming back to them and they realized
that a lot of the time the problem were just old worn out thermal pads a thermal
pad is a specific thickness like this one right here is one millimeter so they
would have to go in measure it and if you get it wrong your
device overheats and it does now it just so happens that they also were working
at a university so they did the thing you do when you work in a university the
result of all of their rnd is this right here k5 pro it's a goop instead of a pad
so they can just slop it in and apparently it's way more conductive than
a thermal pad as well and can have performance gains in like you know
something like this right here our test today is pretty simple first we're going
to just run them stock find out you know baseline numbers then replace the
thermal paste with thermal grizzly cryonaut from there we're going to tear
it apart again replace the thermal pads with k5 pro
and cryonot to find out basically the maximum performance of these things with
their current coolers we're going to use furmark f1 2020 and 3dmark to hopefully
give us a good range of stuff and i'm gonna go eat some lunch and see in 15
minutes first round of tests are nearly done laptops all good GPU still needs to
run 3d mark once but then we're totally good you look at our
results here the longer the firmware goes the GPU just slowly gets slower and
slower and slower are you excited for tearing this laptop apart yeah now i was
a bit of a dum-dum and decided to use the alienware x17
and like i want to do that because it's really fast and
i like it as a laptop but doing this was really stupid because the disassembly
process it's not easy this is not a simple laptop to take apart good job
alex smart thinking everything that you need like ssds battery
RAM is all pretty easy to access cooler not so much it's on the other side of
this do you like taking laptops apart david
not even a little battery first
people always get really mad at me when i don't do that you might be wondering
given how much of a pain in the ass this is to disassemble why i choose to use it
the main reason is that most of our other really fast laptops are from ASUS
and ASUS uses thermal paste on their vrm's instead of thermal pads which
means switching it to k5 pro isn't really going to give you much of a
benefit what do you think the chances are that there's a random cable on the
bottom that i need to disconnect david pretty good wow
okay wow that's a lot of cooling 17 CPU
barrier wait so it looks like that we have
liquid metal on the CPU but the GPU is
just regular everyday thermal paste so
do we replace the liquid metal david i kind of feel like we should okay you do
it oh spread around liquid metal a piece of crap now we just have to put it back
together and hope it all works here we go
might have got a little bit of liquid metal on there
yeah perfect she works good now
we get to take apart a GPU i really hope that ASUS made this easy
to disassemble with them it's normally kind of a toss-up with the gpus while we
take apart the GPU let's get the laptop on the go initial looks seems very close
to stock oh these are the guys where we'll probably
get a lot of benefit from it getting replaced
this screw is basically stripped from the factory that's going to make getting
it back in a joy oh i hate doing this so much oh
no
one thing that's worth noting is that on cards and particularly motherboards the
really high end models with really high-end vrms might benefit less from k5
pro than a lower end model because these right here are probably very efficient
and kept quite cool by all of this heatsink
all right GPU re-paste was a success laptop also looks like it's doing pretty
good yeah it's not even thermal throttling on the CPU so i guess our
liquid metalling is better than alienwares see in another 30 minutes
my first impressions are it's pretty much margin of error between the two
thermal pastes i mean dell did a great job and so did ASUS i'm not super
surprised given that these are incredibly high-end devices
now the fun begins um and off the second time cooler comes
off get rid of these stupid little thermal pads one millimeter up to about
three millimeters it still is good
above that what you want to do is have like a paste copper shim and then
paste again yeah thermodynamics is freaking weird i'm going to start just
applying this as we go you cannot really
have too much oh this is making a mess although that's a
good thing if you have too much of it it's going to squish out and you'll be
fine if you don't have enough of it you'll have an air gap
and your components are going to overheat and die the other benefit is
that it can actually stop condensation from forming now why should this stuff
be better than a thermal pad this copper although it may look fairly smooth on a
microscopic level is a whole bunch of little hills and valleys and crap and
that's what your thermal interface needs to get rid of a thermal pad gets you
about 60 percent contact on the surface
whereas the k5 pro is able to fill in 99
of all those hills and valleys oh my god
beautiful isn't it one thing you might be wondering looking
at this is how do you get rid of it when i asked
computer systems about it they were kind of like why would you
it just works it's incredibly stable why would you ever replace it but apparently
if you just soak it in alcohol for a bit you can wipe it off and it's not too bad
how much squish do you expect david yeah i'm hoping for a lot of squish
oh bit of smoosh there we're just protecting our components i
was expecting this to be way grosser looking we used under a tub of the stuff
for the laptop given we have a bunch of two millimeter ones on here we're gonna
need quite a bit for this GPU
it's so goopy oh geez i will not let you down computer systems
it is really important on chips like this that you cover the entire thing
because there probably isn't much temperature sensing besides maybe a
single probe in this so if you miss half of it it might overheat and not even
know that it's overheating and kill itself oh
they can't say i didn't use enough tub number three
oh i'm having a lot of fun but this may be disturbing to some viewers
where would you rank this on like the tech gore you've seen david oh six out
of ten now all we have to do is run the tests this is going to be a bit more
involved figuring out if it worked or not because it isn't a simple look at
temperature it good it's more like i
have to go through all the frame times organize it and then we'll be able to
tell you if it worked or not all right it's the next morning and i've crunched
the numbers on the rtx 3090 the results are very clear the re-paste got us more
FPS 17 more actually infirmark and the k5 pro got us an additional 4 FPS for a
total gain of 21. this translates into a
6.3 increase in FPS and i've seen a lot
of people go to a lot more trouble than this for
less gains really in f1 2020 uh
it's a CPU bound game so there was no change
as for the alienware x17
uh if you want to re-paste it don't turns out their extra special element 31
that they talked about a whole bunch uh yeah it kicks ass so when we replaced it
our performance dropped by seven FPS infermark and in f120 21 we lost three
FPS fortunately we were able to make up some of that by adding the k5 pro so our
losses were halved in fermark and in f1 2021 we saw an incredible gain of 1 FPS
meaning that having your vrm's better cool on this laptops can make up for
worse CPU temperatures so am i going to put k5 pro on everything
well the impressive part of this is that the k5 pro was able to give us
performance gains in brand new devices and brand new thermal pads if your
laptop or GPU is around two or three years old and you're already planning a
re-paste i think including a tub of this stuff makes a lot of sense i'm probably
gonna order a bulk jar so that i don't have to use the stupid thermal pads that
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
that was brutal