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most thermal compounds have a thermal conductivity of about 10 to 20 watts per

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meter kelvin with really good ones reaching 30 or so the king of all

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thermal compounds liquid metal manages a whopping 73 watts

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per meter kelvin but while browsing

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newark an industrial supplier we found

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this the panasonic pyrolytic graphene

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sheet or pgs with an incredible thermal

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conductivity of 1950 watts per meter kelvin

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but wait that would make this thermal pad 20

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times as conductive as liquid metal

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is that even possible can i do a 360 during this sponsor segue

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before we get started i need to show you this because it's just absolutely

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amazing okay just getting a little r r

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and thinking about how my circuit board over here can handle all this heat in

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fairness though pyrolytic graphite really is a super cool substance much

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cooler than that video it's man-made and cannot be found in

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nature and while the actual process of fabricating pyrolytic graphite is a bit

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over our heads it sounds pretty sweet basically you take a hydrocarbon like

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methane and put it under a vacuum of about 1 torr or about 1 760 of

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atmospheric pressure then you heat up the methane to 2000

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degrees celsius and slowly about a

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thousandth of an inch per hour a layer of graphite grows this creates perfect

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hexagonal carbon sheets that lie on top of one another what are they going to

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think of next right the shape of the carbon crystals also

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makes pyrolytic graphite the most diamagnetic material by weight meaning

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that it's repelled by a magnetic field and can be levitated

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unfortunately we don't have a magnet big enough to try it and we'd probably want

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a slightly thicker sheet of graphite but look here's a cool video of someone else

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doing it go check it out at the link below this also makes it excellent for

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electromagnetic shielding for use in things like radio towers and satellites

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of course we're not here for the magnetic

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properties you haven't even opened this have you no you have no idea if it's going to work not at all we want to look

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at its thermal properties the most thermally conductive substance in the

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world is a diamond with a thermal conductivity of around 2200 watts per

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meter kelvin so we're getting very close here to the limits of thermal

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conductivity with that insane value of 1950 watts per meter kelvin

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apparently the thermal conductivity of this stuff is so great that you can use

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a sheet of it to slice through an ice cube using just the heat of your hand

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it's this thin with an adhesive so it's

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a 10 micrometer of graphite and i think

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six micrometers of adhesive so how do i get this adhesive off like i can't even

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get a fingernail in there can you see it going in what if we add more heat

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holy crap it's actually like going faster

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i can tell like easily i don't know if i have the patience for

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the whole thing but it definitely sliced into it check this out and you can

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actually tell it's sliced in more on the

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side that doesn't have the adhesive on it we really need to figure out how to remove that what if we scraped off a

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corner of the graphite yeah there you can see the plastic sheet there okay i

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think i've got it peeled there we go oh my goodness it's so thin i think we're

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good i think i think i got it apart so this insane thermal conductivity means

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that pyrolytic graphite is used in you know blow stakes applications like the

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nose cones of missiles rocket motors nuclear reactors and even heart valves

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of all things but of course this is Linus tech tips we want to know

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if it's good for cooling computers curiously one of the main selling points

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of pgs is its use in electronics but it

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seems like the marketing focuses on thicker less thermally conductive versions

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rather than the thinner much more thermally conductive kind that i'm

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holding this one is just 10 micrometers

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thick also curiously it seems that for the thicker thermal pads that panasonic

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makes they've basically glued together a bunch of thin thermal pads with a

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thermally conductive glue now compared to other thermal pads these offer

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excellent performance but neither of those are going to cut it if we want to

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get the most performance ah there it is out of our CPU here before we test this

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out though we need a baseline

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now we already pre-ran using Noctua's nth2 but there's already a graphite

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thermal pad on the market for computers this is the innovation cooling graphite

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thermal pad and we looked at it a couple of years ago it doesn't keep up with a

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high quality thermal paste but it's good enough it's reusable it creates no

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mess it lasts basically forever and it can withstand temperatures that your

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processor will never see we actually really like this especially for test benches

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one problem with the ic graphite thermal pad though is that it is electrically

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conductive apparently that is not the case with pgs

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my script just says from here things get loose and probably weird

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that sounds about right that is not a lot of resistance two ohms

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yeah something like that okay let's try this okay that's about the

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same with that out of the way frankly i have no idea what to expect now because

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already the spec sheet doesn't seem to be entirely

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forthcoming with real information about the product

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and there's got to be a reason that people aren't using this stuff i

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have concerns about the thickness yeah that's my concern as well like even just

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micro imperfections in the bottom of the heatsink or CPU seem like this isn't

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going to bridge the gap yeah and there's stuff like i think Noctua's thermal compounds not as

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thermally conductive as a lot of other ones but it works better because it's just

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better at spreading out and filling in those gaps it's also like think about

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how sick it would be to be able to just install one of these on the bottom of a cooler and just never worry about it

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again yeah wait we don't know what the thermal

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conductivity of that adhesive is though um it's quite high oh okay there's our

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innovation cooling pad now we can throw our nhd14 on here

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d15 is this a d15 yep well there you go

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it has your name on the box and you don't even know what it is

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i'm more of a single tower cooler guy what the dualies are the best yeah i

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know but they're so unwieldy that's like part of the appeal though

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our test bench is a core i9 10 900 k

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and we're running the blender classroom test which is going to take us yeah

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about six or seven minutes giving us a good idea of where it's going to top out

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yeah for the nth2 our average temperature was 86.4 degrees and the max

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was 90. so that's we're going to be i found this by just sorting most

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thermally conductive on the website

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and i was like wow that's really really terribly conductive

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expected that's a little worse

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so i'm doing some rough in head math and

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i'm going to say 93 and a half 93 not bad yes uh that's

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worse but it didn't thermal throttle and that's all we really need because that means we know the thermal output through

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the duration of the test was the same so we can shut it down now

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and take a crack at this i brought over a dowel pin so that we can try and smooth

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it out sure it's actually probably not a terrible idea i mean this whole thing is

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kind of not really a great idea but like should we adhere to the heatsink or to

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the CPU i kind of liked your idea of doing it to the heatsink yeah cause that

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would be so awesome to be able to just poop plunk a heatsink yeah okay once it

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sticks on there it's pretty sticky so that's good for us to know about uh

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right about now oh lordy okay

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so here's the plan

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hmm

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like i was just here's the plan and then nothing

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there is no plan that's what i'm trying to say alex

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good job Linus it looks like there's some like junk under there though

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doesn't it you know what forget it no no no no i'm out i'm out try again

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oh that's way better i'm glad we didn't even bother to test the other

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application if we discovered a fantastic and affordable new thermal interface

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material you can bet you'll find it soon on ltteststore.com marked up of course

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well the stuff is only like seven dollars and fifty cents for a

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sheet of it like that size wait

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we spent 40 dollars on this little pack

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if our idol temps are anything to go by

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this may actually work of course idol temps tell us

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really not much with the story we're also like just on the cusp of thermal

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throttling which is kind of unfortunate but

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well that's fine because if it doesn't perform as well as the ic

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pad then it doesn't it's irrelevant so i don't think it's gonna work

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not as well as this pitch for ltteststore.com anyway all right

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i want it to work because i want to be like oh we found a thing that's so cool

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but i my my hope level is quite low

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and we're done bud oh no

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and it's terrible oh oh we dropped like

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400 megahertz off our CPU what if we put another layer

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on the CPU to try to

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you know curiously the contact patch actually

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isn't even that bad it does only contact this area here but

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that's basically the die so that's about that matters it's about half of the die

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the die on the 10 900k is pretty big under there you know what i want to try

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it i want to put another layer on the CPU okay screw it how did you do this

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last time good luck everybody oh oh hi hey oh yeah

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got a fan going over there

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uh that's that's not great i kind of took out one of the

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things here if it doesn't do worse i guess i can accept that as sort of a

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small victory f12 to

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what pay respect okay okay

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so it's not great for this application

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but that's fine because nobody advertised it as being great for this

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application one of the other things it is apparently good for is heat transport

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so you might think okay well hey Linus okay it's not that great for

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moving heat from the CPU up to the heat sink but what if it could spread it out

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a lot well the problem is that it's not nearly as

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good as a heat pipe those can get up to a hundred thousand watts per meter

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kelvin because they aren't relying on just conduction instead they're using

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convection and phase change cooling together to move the heat around like

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real quick styles some random other use cases for this

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stuff include apparently phones heated steering wheels which i thought

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was pretty cool that that would be a really neat way to kind of move the heat

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around from the element to spread it out more evenly heated seats again to spread

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heat out more evenly servers very vague but apparently they're good

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for servers and radio antennas which we mentioned

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before as for using it to cool your computer

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well not unless you want to run at you know 98 degrees because you just

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missed the 90s that much

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cooling projects why don't i why don't we throw to the five gigahertz laptop

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sure yeah check that all the time yeah check out the crazy uh the crazy

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cooling the laptop with the blowy matron server fan got it to five gigahertz that

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alex and i did ages ago you know we could also throw people to

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another thing that didn't work like when we harvested the thermal interface

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material from between until no let's throw them to like the macbook

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video how about all three