You can never have enough paste. NEVER. The more the better. On the RAM, on the mosfets, on the offsets, on the topdefs, lather it up and cover your USB ports as well.
You forgot the fan blades bro!! Maximize cooling with thermal paste coated fan blades!! Butter up those CPU cooler, radiator cooler and case fan blades real, real good with the most expensive paste you can find!!
These. These are the kind of reviews I look for. Shows the results right away and then provides a ton of necessary and useful information. In addition to giving his own decision, which can help people that are indecisive such as myself. Not many people do this shit, if not any at all, this dude definitely deserves appreciation. Hope it is not one of the good ones we lose in a few months. Definitely deserve more appreciation and if you keep up with this same production and stay consistent, I do not see why you can not be another successful content maker. e/ Subscribed. Love the transparency.
@@TechIlliterate Why did you run it with the side panels open? That's not a realistic test, most of us keep our PCs closed. It also means that you get more accurate results.
I would imagine that this kind of thermal difference is far more important in something like a laptop or console since they tend to be far more restrictive with their air flow. Thank you for the informative video!
Nice, honest review, just one thing I wanted to point out: there is absolutely a place for TFX. Its high viscosity makes it ideal for the convex surfaces of ampere GPU dies for example. Temps generally seem to be all over the place with "runny" pastes.
Glad someone mentioned this, its a very thick paste for a reason. Many of the top recommended thermal pastes in this video tend to be susceptible to the "pump out" issue where when applied towards GPU's (graphics cards/consoles) the excessive heat will cause some of the paste to move around, causing a portion of the surface it was applied on to have no paste which leads to overheating. High viscosity thermal paste has its purposes
@@TechIlliterate Diamond nano dust particles that thermal paste and Noctua NT 1 or 2 for CPU best combination also use a different thermal paste for GPU. Diamond dust and the mixture that costs 16£ is really good because it does not dry up fast and it can last for a long time!.
For the Thermalright TFX paste to spread properly you have to heat it up with a hairdryer. I have the TFX on my laptop and it works really well, no pumping out effect like other less viscous paste would.
It all adds up ... with paste, fans, position in case and direction of airflow. For those of us the do animation rendering this becomes very important as we squeeze as much out of each advantage, jmho!
Thanks for the straightforward information! I was considering the NT-H2 and now I'm sold on it. I appreciate the time you took to do this. Very well articulated and I'll definitely be checking out more of your channel!
Hey men, I´ve been running tests myself, you can see a bigger difference in temperature when your case is closed, that's when kryonaut sets itself apart from the rest.
I just found your channel today and have been binging all your thermal paste content and I just have to say you do a phenomenal job, as good if not better than any other channel I've seen. I also really respect your decision to not go the ad route (for now anyway). Everything I have seen from you indicates you have a lot of ability and integrity, and I wish the very best for you and your channel(s)!
Couple bucks here and there is negligible in total system cost, especially since the amount you end up using per application is so small. Kryonaut is definitely my go to paste. Bought a 3ml tube a few years back for 24,90€ and i still have some left. Used it on every build and repaste since. Excellent performance, good consistency, nonconductive (safe for GPU applications) and for whatever reason it seems to have pretty decent long term stability despite not being very thick. Might not be the best option for something you intend to leave for a decade though.
Great Video! One thing I would like to note(and/or see tested) is that Arctic Silver 5, per their instructions, has a "Break in" period of 200hrs for both AMD and Intel. This being done by using the computer normally and turning it off when done, then back on again etc. Supposedly this drops temps from 1c-5c after break in time. I have used Arctic Sliver 5 for years and have always had great results but I never monitored the temp before and after break in. My current pc is going on 11 years and still running cool from when I first install Arctic Sliver 5 etc.
@@ahhhsothisishowyouchangean162 as5 is always a good choice. Any noctua thermal pastes are very good as well. Thermal grizzly is very good as well, but I heard it dries up in less than a year. Not sure if that is true or not. I used noctua on my 12900k build and it does great.
I usually just fill my whole bathtub with thermal paste and completely submerge my whole pc in it. It had yet to exceed -48° i did notice a 92FPS drop due to not being able to see my RGB through the thermal paste, so i made sure to cover the entire bathroom in RGB lights to eliminate FPS loss. 10/10 most effective method so far. Highly recommended.
I tend to go with Artic MX-4, but that's only because it's usually super affordable. I also have a box of good rubbing alcohol wipes. Otherwise I'd definitely take that Noctua deal of extra cleaning wipes.
Your timing couldn't be any better. I've never built a PC before and in front of my lays everything except a GPU, CPU, and thermal paste. Just waiting on big navi or a 3080. And a 5900x or a 3900x if I can't get a 5900. Tough spot I've found myself in!
The grizzly cronaunt had bad reviews on Amazon saying it was a knockoff product compared to ordering direct from the main company… I went with nt-h2 so far so good Attic silver has the best reviews don’t ask me how
I really liked your opinion of what you would recommend, cause in the beginning i leaned towards the noctua, and in conclussion you did as well. your honesty, and work was pretty amazing! Love the Sponsor!
Negligeble but when you get 2-4 from the thermal grease, 1-3 from an aftermarket contact frame, and another 2-4 from an offset cooler (if you are on am5) it adds up to 5-11 degrees, which is significant when it is one of the current gen chips that are cooking themselves and motherboards.
Thermalright are an old company. They also used to be one of the best for Air Coolers. I remember back in 2012? 2013? their Silver Arrow line beating the Noctua NH-D14 (D15 wasn't released yet) and the early AIOs from Corsair etc. not to mention they had some of the best fans for CPU coolers. For some reason, over time, they kinda fell into obscurity, whereas Noctua went from a niche company to a global name. Maybe because outside of the Silver Arrows, the rest of the product lineup (eg the True Spirit) wasn't something special, just good value for money.
I still have a Thermalright cooler on my FX 8320 I'm finally replacing tomorrow. It's been working brilliantly for years, I regularly use the screwdriver that came with the cooler.
I've measured artic silver's resistance with a tester. There's so much oil (or some other stuff) that its resistance (if it even conducts electricity) at 3.3V is at least 50000MΩ/mm in a 1cm² surface. tl;dr: Artic silver (most likely) won't damage your motherboard if you spill some. At most it might prevent pins from doing good contact.
Kryonaut is hard to beat! Basically free performance just by applying paste. I have Kryonaut on my 7700k, and it's delidded with Conductonaut liquid metal on the outside. Add a NH-D15 and we're sitting at 70 degrees under load at 5.0 ghz overclock. Thermal Grizzly makes some really good stuff!
as someone that use an old laptop that can get up to 95 degree C when gaming. After using Thermal grizzly, i notice my temp si around 78 degree which is much better. No more thermal prompt by throttlestop. If u have an old pc, buy the best performance, if u have a new/powerfull pc, go buy the best price/performance ratio.
Nice. I really like your no nonsense approach. Agreeing with your findings helped a bit... If I were you, I'd flip the colour scheme in the graphs. People tend to associate green with good, orange with questionable and red with bad. Seeing the paste with the best performance in orange and the worst in dark green, takes a bit of getting used to. People are lazy, they want stuff to look like the other stuff they look at. Your reversed colour scheme will be a reason to leave for some of them. Of course I subscribed.
Im using noctua nt h2 inside g14 with 4800hs, cpu max boost used to reach at 95-105 celcius now it turning down to the highest temp just about 75 celcius, i have been using it for a couple months and i think with 3.5g i can repaste about 8- 9 time before buying the new one 😊
Thanks for this real-world review and especially for using your own rig to do it ! I guess the only other thing is longevity and whether these temps vary to any significant difference after say 12 months of normal use ? But certainly for a new set up it doesn't seem to matter that much which you buy.
Thermal paste quality is not just about lowest thermals. One other important factor is: How quickly will it dry out. So, one year from now when you remove the cooler, will it be dry or still ok?
I just went to remount/padmod a GPU that I'd put MX-4 on 2 years ago, and it was brand new still. The card in question was mining for a few months and saw plenty of gaming time. Seems to take forever to dry out
Nice, concise, transparent and honest review, without adds. This is how the future will be hopefully. Things I wanna notice: Would have been nice just to use usual fans, PC in vertical and side panels shut, running tests at least 30 minutes each (I know the efforts..). How did you find out, that Artic 5 is conductive? best regards.
Thank you, been on the topic of Thermal paste for several months - - - - - I was leaning towards Kryonaut and the thought of frying my Motherboard Kept me searching - - - - -Now I have decided for NOCTUA - - -Thank you 😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@TechIlliterate Great video again.... I want to ask cos in a relative Noob.... Do I need an Antistatic mat and/or antistatic wrist band to ground myself and to get into my laptop?
Core i5-4590 user here, I was using the cheapest off-brand stuff possible until now, today, I tried Arctic MX-4, and I used the best pattern, the X pattern. I have the CPU fan, the only fan alongside my GPU fan, set to 25 % minimum speed, and it speeds up if I hit 40 °C. Well to my surprise, with this paste, and even when watching 1080p Twitch and the utilization is there, it doesn't spin up, it doesn't even hit 40 °C. And the paste wasn't that much more expensive than the off-brand tube, so, in my opinion, worth every penny!
I also did this test minus the Kryonaut and the Noctua came out on top. I been using it now for 2 years worth of builds and they all run cool. Thanks for the video.
I'm curious to see what the shelf life actually is. If I remember correctly Noctua claims 3 years on the shelf and 5 years on the CPU. Check back in a year or so with how it's doing hah. Thanks for watching.
Nice work, Nick. Appreciate your view on ads. As you said, you can't make such promises in the future with no ads. We'll X our fingers to keep your channel ad-free :D
Hey there Nick! I' ve just seen your video and I really enjoyed it. Ad-free, down to the point, with the right amount of information and more than what I expected. I wish you the best for each and every plan you may have.
My man I just wanted to say that your video is very thorough and really helped me make a decision for cooling some 3090s while mining. Only update is at the Kryonaut has gone down in price considerably and is on pair with the better-performing paste cost wise. Thanks again!
Thanks for this video dude!!!!! Very helpful, I’m a LOVER of Noctua products and to hear your recommendation really made me happy. Now I know what paste I’m getting!
for artic silver 5 you have to do the 200h break in, might not change much degrees, but overtime it goes down a little bit, but agree on the noctua, i use it now on some builds, but still have the old reliable silver 5 just in case XD
I have been using arctic silver 5 for about 10 years. I do the break it in and do the thermal cycling and can get the temps to drop 3-5c from start by the end of 10 days. Full on running benchmark 48 hours. Full power down for 8. On for 24. Off 8 for 5 cycles. After that the temps don't creep up either. Good paste still imo.
Thermalright tfx is by far the best paste i ve ever used ! Got tired of changing thermal paste once every 6-9 months on ps 4 pro because of the pump out effect (thermal grizzly kryonaut is the worst). I have applied tfx since 18 months and its still silent ! Nobody is talking about the longevity, everyone is comparing them freshly applied !
@@TechIlliterate so I want your opinion on something I don't really care what it costs but which product do I get because I'm planning on using an aio and heavy overclocking
This video is a bit older, but the recently released Kryonaut Extreme is the best paste now I think. Also the pink color makes it super easy to see if you have a good spread going. I bought it this week because my EVGA RTX2080 XC Ultra card of 2 years old had its thermal paste go bad. I had never seen it before but the thermal paste became a watery liquid and didn't cover the gpu die properly anymore either. The new Kryonaut Extreme really dropped the thermals even compared to how the card was out of the box though. Easily hitting 30 degrees celcius idle, 53 degrees with boostlock enabled while idling, and a maximum temperature of 56 degrees in 3D Mark Time Spy with the fans barely spinning. I am really extremely happy with Kryonaut Extreme, which luckily also now comes in 2ml syringes and not just the expensive 9ml jar. Also it isn't all about max temperatures, it is about efficient heat transfer away from the CPU or GPU into the cooling block, where it than can be dissipate. The better it thus can transfer the heat, the easier a time your cooling solution has in trying to dissipate that heat. Simply because the cooling surface actually takes up that heat faster. So efficient paste will transfer heat easily but also fast. So the ease of transfer and speed of transfer make the difference.
great comparison!! sitting beside my 83yr old grandma and explaining why im watching your vid, shes asked where the control test is without any thermal paste which i agree is a great question. id never build a machine without it but it defs would be interesting to see what kind of temps youd get... keep up the great work man!
@@TechIlliterate haha - same here! if you ever do get to being bold and daring, another consideration would be comparing thermal pads vs paste - another thing i'd never do (but have never tried), All shops say it isnt worth it. I have an old 32nM celeron test rig that i'll get to doing such a test when i have the time for it
I'm a big fan of Noctua, they're just one of the best choices despite the fact that they're a bit more high end and expensive than Arctic. Noctua pastes always do well on benchmarks. But they do suffer from the pump-out effect over time, so you will need to reapply it every so often. It's really not a big deal for most people though. The issue of pump-out is very overblown. People who are worried about it should look at thermal paste alternatives like thermal sheets, phase change material and liquid metal.
The temperatures and pastes are more important when you overclock, Ofc it doesnt matter when you run it stock and have a decent cooler :) I would want to see a comparison for thermal pastes on GPUs, supposedly it is a bit different then CPUs, but I can't find any tests for GPUs. Something to think about for Kryonaut I found when reading about it is that you need to repaste about once a year which makes the noctua or mx4/mx5 a better choice if you dont wanna have to do that.
Thermalright was basically a thermal solution leader 15-20 years ago... they aren't new. Look at the Peerless Assassin cpu cooler that performs better than my Noctua NHD15 at less than half the cost today.
I love how everyone says realistic gaming workloads aren't as intense as benchmarks. I'm sitting here trying to play dirt rally 2 with an oculus rift S, a 10700kf and a 3080ti.... Still dipping below 60fps at times. VR is a different animal. And racing brings new scenery into frame quickly and consistently.
I think that while on desktop the thermal paste may not matter, on a laptop its a different story. You want the most you can get out of the tiny coolers in them, so every little bit helps.
thanks alot for this. Its my firt time on your channel and it was super helpful especially the part you said unless your overclocking you dont need most expensive one. imma buy arctic mx4 for my laptop. it already keeps my cpu and gpu cool (around 75 on cpu and 65 on the gpu) but i wanna change the paste bcuz in the past 4 months the thermal performance has dropped more than it should have with the warmer weather. I wanna get ahead of that to be able keep my laptop for a long long time. thanks again. subbed
Thank you so much for this video! While I will watch other videos, this is the best starting point for me. Soon I'll be reapplying Thermal Paste to all the PC's in the house @_@ I want the best for my family! Well, best within reason XD Thank you again for your hard work and dedication!
Actually the TR TFX is the best paste for laptop because of how viscous it is. Watery paste like Kryonaut will pump out after a short time so you have to keep repasting. For Desktop CPU then sure Kryonaut is almost the best paste, behind Kingping KPx
Gelid GC Extreme is pretty much in the highest tier, along with Kryonaut and KPx, and you can get 3.5g for $10 or *10g for $20* which is practically a lifetime supply.
I used Gelid GC-Extreme on my PC and laptop after some research, pretty much the closest you can get to cryonaut without the premium price. Laptop got as cool as a cucumber. Amazing value, half the price of cryonaut where I live.
I overclocked my i5-10600k to 5.0GHz and it has a 360mm aio running at %100 and it got to 91C before shutting down with the thermal paste that came with it, definitely getting a grizzly😂
Old video but I'm sure it's still relevant. I ended up going with Noctua since I have been very impressed with their heatsink/fans. Thanks for the video.
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You can never have enough paste. NEVER. The more the better. On the RAM, on the mosfets, on the offsets, on the topdefs, lather it up and cover your USB ports as well.
This guy pastes
This guy doesn’t take the whole world not because he can’t it’s because he doesn’t want 😂
You forgot the fan blades bro!! Maximize cooling with thermal paste coated fan blades!!
Butter up those CPU cooler, radiator cooler and case fan blades real, real good with the most expensive paste you can find!!
@@auntiepha8343 Good looking out brah. Heed this person's advice ya'll.
do we apply that with tweezers or a pocket knife
These. These are the kind of reviews I look for. Shows the results right away and then provides a ton of necessary and useful information. In addition to giving his own decision, which can help people that are indecisive such as myself. Not many people do this shit, if not any at all, this dude definitely deserves appreciation. Hope it is not one of the good ones we lose in a few months. Definitely deserve more appreciation and if you keep up with this same production and stay consistent, I do not see why you can not be another successful content maker.
e/ Subscribed. Love the transparency.
Holy Sh*t!
Thank you so much! Your words mean a lot to me!
Agreed
Agreed. Am new to PC’s & don’t know Jack sh!t about thermal paste. Both of your videos have been very informative & helpful, THANK YOU
@@TechIlliterate Why did you run it with the side panels open? That's not a realistic test, most of us keep our PCs closed. It also means that you get more accurate results.
@@MrGamelover23 Good point. I stopped doing that as you can see in later tests.
I would imagine that this kind of thermal difference is far more important in something like a laptop or console since they tend to be far more restrictive with their air flow. Thank you for the informative video!
My guy looks like johnny sins but this is a really good review
Had to look it up. Kinda do xD
@@TechIlliterate and that’s how my obsession started... jk lol great vid
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Well, we know what you do all day!
@@TechIlliterate Lies. If you don't know, you're lying. 🤣
Nice, honest review, just one thing I wanted to point out: there is absolutely a place for TFX. Its high viscosity makes it ideal for the convex surfaces of ampere GPU dies for example. Temps generally seem to be all over the place with "runny" pastes.
That's a great point. Thanks! May have to try it out.
Glad someone mentioned this, its a very thick paste for a reason. Many of the top recommended thermal pastes in this video tend to be susceptible to the "pump out" issue where when applied towards GPU's (graphics cards/consoles) the excessive heat will cause some of the paste to move around, causing a portion of the surface it was applied on to have no paste which leads to overheating. High viscosity thermal paste has its purposes
yeah, its a perfect bare die paste
When choosing a paste, remember this rhyme: Colgate is great, but Crest is best.
I'm a Hedley and Wyche guy myself.
@@TechIlliterate Diamond nano dust particles that thermal paste and Noctua NT 1 or 2 for CPU best combination also use a different thermal paste for GPU. Diamond dust and the mixture that costs 16£ is really good because it does not dry up fast and it can last for a long time!.
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Go on then, use it on your processor and let us know if "Crest is still the best" 😅😆😂😝
ye that stuffs in my bathroom rn
the sponsor of this video was amazing!
Never thought i would watch johnnysins twice this day
For the Thermalright TFX paste to spread properly you have to heat it up with a hairdryer. I have the TFX on my laptop and it works really well, no pumping out effect like other less viscous paste would.
It all adds up ... with paste, fans, position in case and direction of airflow. For those of us the do animation rendering this becomes very important as we squeeze as much out of each advantage, jmho!
Great vid. Loved the fact you tell people to shop around. The mark of a great person
Defo one of the best presenters out here. Clear, concise, no waffling bollocks and nice easy to understand graphs with USEFUL DATA! Lol. :)
..Noctua h2 has a 5 year life span according to Noctua..another bonus..great vid..thanks
Thanks for the straightforward information! I was considering the NT-H2 and now I'm sold on it. I appreciate the time you took to do this. Very well articulated and I'll definitely be checking out more of your channel!
Hey men, I´ve been running tests myself, you can see a bigger difference in temperature when your case is closed, that's when kryonaut sets itself apart from the rest.
I just found your channel today and have been binging all your thermal paste content and I just have to say you do a phenomenal job, as good if not better than any other channel I've seen. I also really respect your decision to not go the ad route (for now anyway).
Everything I have seen from you indicates you have a lot of ability and integrity, and I wish the very best for you and your channel(s)!
Couple bucks here and there is negligible in total system cost, especially since the amount you end up using per application is so small. Kryonaut is definitely my go to paste. Bought a 3ml tube a few years back for 24,90€ and i still have some left. Used it on every build and repaste since. Excellent performance, good consistency, nonconductive (safe for GPU applications) and for whatever reason it seems to have pretty decent long term stability despite not being very thick. Might not be the best option for something you intend to leave for a decade though.
Great Video! One thing I would like to note(and/or see tested) is that Arctic Silver 5, per their instructions, has a "Break in" period of 200hrs for both AMD and Intel. This being done by using the computer normally and turning it off when done, then back on again etc. Supposedly this drops temps from 1c-5c after break in time. I have used Arctic Sliver 5 for years and have always had great results but I never monitored the temp before and after break in. My current pc is going on 11 years and still running cool from when I first install Arctic Sliver 5 etc.
I have been using as5 for many years, it is reliable but it seems better products exist now.
@@mikerzisu9508 may I ask if you have any good recommendations?
@@ahhhsothisishowyouchangean162 as5 is always a good choice. Any noctua thermal pastes are very good as well. Thermal grizzly is very good as well, but I heard it dries up in less than a year. Not sure if that is true or not. I used noctua on my 12900k build and it does great.
I usually just fill my whole bathtub with thermal paste and completely submerge my whole pc in it. It had yet to exceed -48° i did notice a 92FPS drop due to not being able to see my RGB through the thermal paste, so i made sure to cover the entire bathroom in RGB lights to eliminate FPS loss.
10/10 most effective method so far. Highly recommended.
I tend to go with Artic MX-4, but that's only because it's usually super affordable. I also have a box of good rubbing alcohol wipes. Otherwise I'd definitely take that Noctua deal of extra cleaning wipes.
Your timing couldn't be any better. I've never built a PC before and in front of my lays everything except a GPU, CPU, and thermal paste. Just waiting on big navi or a 3080. And a 5900x or a 3900x if I can't get a 5900. Tough spot I've found myself in!
5900x is going to be a NICE chip. I expect if you're ready for launch day you should be able to get one.
I really really like your honesty and style. Good work there!!
The grizzly cronaunt had bad reviews on Amazon saying it was a knockoff product compared to ordering direct from the main company…
I went with nt-h2 so far so good
Attic silver has the best reviews don’t ask me how
I really liked your opinion of what you would recommend, cause in the beginning i leaned towards the noctua, and in conclussion you did as well. your honesty, and work was pretty amazing!
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Negligeble but when you get 2-4 from the thermal grease, 1-3 from an aftermarket contact frame, and another 2-4 from an offset cooler (if you are on am5) it adds up to 5-11 degrees, which is significant when it is one of the current gen chips that are cooking themselves and motherboards.
Thermalright are an old company. They also used to be one of the best for Air Coolers.
I remember back in 2012? 2013? their Silver Arrow line beating the Noctua NH-D14 (D15 wasn't released yet) and the early AIOs from Corsair etc. not to mention they had some of the best fans for CPU coolers. For some reason, over time, they kinda fell into obscurity, whereas Noctua went from a niche company to a global name. Maybe because outside of the Silver Arrows, the rest of the product lineup (eg the True Spirit) wasn't something special, just good value for money.
I still have a Thermalright cooler on my FX 8320 I'm finally replacing tomorrow. It's been working brilliantly for years, I regularly use the screwdriver that came with the cooler.
I had the Thermalright Archon, was awesome, it now resides in a buddy's computer.
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Appreciate the video, list of subjects, and your thoroughness! thank you
I've measured artic silver's resistance with a tester. There's so much oil (or some other stuff) that its resistance (if it even conducts electricity) at 3.3V is at least 50000MΩ/mm in a 1cm² surface.
tl;dr: Artic silver (most likely) won't damage your motherboard if you spill some. At most it might prevent pins from doing good contact.
You're right. I overemphasized things I've read about it's conductivity. Thanks for the info.
Kryonaut is hard to beat! Basically free performance just by applying paste. I have Kryonaut on my 7700k, and it's delidded with Conductonaut liquid metal on the outside. Add a NH-D15 and we're sitting at 70 degrees under load at 5.0 ghz overclock. Thermal Grizzly makes some really good stuff!
as someone that use an old laptop that can get up to 95 degree C when gaming. After using Thermal grizzly, i notice my temp si around 78 degree which is much better. No more thermal prompt by throttlestop.
If u have an old pc, buy the best performance,
if u have a new/powerfull pc, go buy the best price/performance ratio.
You're right. Especially for a laptop getting the best performing paste is a good idea. A point I missed for sure. Thanks
Nice. I really like your no nonsense approach. Agreeing with your findings helped a bit... If I were you, I'd flip the colour scheme in the graphs. People tend to associate green with good, orange with questionable and red with bad. Seeing the paste with the best performance in orange and the worst in dark green, takes a bit of getting used to. People are lazy, they want stuff to look like the other stuff they look at. Your reversed colour scheme will be a reason to leave for some of them.
Of course I subscribed.
Im using noctua nt h2 inside g14 with 4800hs, cpu max boost used to reach at 95-105 celcius now it turning down to the highest temp just about 75 celcius, i have been using it for a couple months and i think with 3.5g i can repaste about 8- 9 time before buying the new one 😊
Thanks for this real-world review and especially for using your own rig to do it ! I guess the only other thing is longevity and whether these temps vary to any significant difference after say 12 months of normal use ? But certainly for a new set up it doesn't seem to matter that much which you buy.
That would be some testing I would love to do. Unfortunately I don't have the resources...yet ;)
Thermal paste quality is not just about lowest thermals. One other important factor is: How quickly will it dry out. So, one year from now when you remove the cooler, will it be dry or still ok?
I just went to remount/padmod a GPU that I'd put MX-4 on 2 years ago, and it was brand new still. The card in question was mining for a few months and saw plenty of gaming time. Seems to take forever to dry out
@@chronicalcultivation nicceeee
Nice, concise, transparent and honest review, without adds. This is how the future will be hopefully.
Things I wanna notice:
Would have been nice just to use usual fans, PC in vertical and side panels shut, running tests at least 30 minutes each (I know the efforts..).
How did you find out, that Artic 5 is conductive?
best regards.
Arctic Silver 5 has literal silver in it. Silver is one of the most electrically conductive metals.
This channel is a pure gem and is underrated.
I have a MX4 and I did have good results but I was not apposed to going with a different paste. I decided to sub and life the video.
Strong showing by noctua, especially accounting for the price and the fact that it's often included with noctua coolers.
Thank you, been on the topic of Thermal paste for several months - - - - - I was leaning towards Kryonaut and the thought of frying my Motherboard Kept me searching - - - - -Now I have decided for NOCTUA - - -Thank you 😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching.
@@TechIlliterate Great video again.... I want to ask cos in a relative Noob.... Do I need an Antistatic mat and/or antistatic wrist band to ground myself and to get into my laptop?
love the video, thanks. thinking about mx-4... but the red SG hanging up behind you from what i can see is absolutely beautiful
Core i5-4590 user here, I was using the cheapest off-brand stuff possible until now, today, I tried Arctic MX-4, and I used the best pattern, the X pattern.
I have the CPU fan, the only fan alongside my GPU fan, set to 25 % minimum speed, and it speeds up if I hit 40 °C.
Well to my surprise, with this paste, and even when watching 1080p Twitch and the utilization is there, it doesn't spin up, it doesn't even hit 40 °C.
And the paste wasn't that much more expensive than the off-brand tube, so, in my opinion, worth every penny!
Dude, i love how concise your videos are!
I bought Corsair xtm50 for around 15 dollar and it performs even better, great paste and it did wonder in my ps4.
I also did this test minus the Kryonaut and the Noctua came out on top. I been using it now for 2 years worth of builds and they all run cool. Thanks for the video.
I'm curious to see what the shelf life actually is. If I remember correctly Noctua claims 3 years on the shelf and 5 years on the CPU. Check back in a year or so with how it's doing hah.
Thanks for watching.
Nice work, Nick. Appreciate your view on ads. As you said, you can't make such promises in the future with no ads. We'll X our fingers to keep your channel ad-free :D
Hey there Nick! I' ve just seen your video and I really enjoyed it. Ad-free, down to the point, with the right amount of information and more than what I expected. I wish you the best for each and every plan you may have.
My man I just wanted to say that your video is very thorough and really helped me make a decision for cooling some 3090s while mining. Only update is at the Kryonaut has gone down in price considerably and is on pair with the better-performing paste cost wise. Thanks again!
Problem with that stuff from what I have read is it degrades considerably at higher temps and dries up after a year or so.
Noctua for cooling. I use Noctua NT-H2 and have their fans in my case.
Excellent objective and well informed Test! Love it!
Thanks for this video dude!!!!! Very helpful, I’m a LOVER of Noctua products and to hear your recommendation really made me happy. Now I know what paste I’m getting!
for artic silver 5 you have to do the 200h break in, might not change much degrees, but overtime it goes down a little bit, but agree on the noctua, i use it now on some builds, but still have the old reliable silver 5 just in case XD
I have been using arctic silver 5 for about 10 years. I do the break it in and do the thermal cycling and can get the temps to drop 3-5c from start by the end of 10 days. Full on running benchmark 48 hours. Full power down for 8. On for 24. Off 8 for 5 cycles. After that the temps don't creep up either. Good paste still imo.
Thermalright tfx is by far the best paste i ve ever used ! Got tired of changing thermal paste once every 6-9 months on ps 4 pro because of the pump out effect (thermal grizzly kryonaut is the worst). I have applied tfx since 18 months and its still silent ! Nobody is talking about the longevity, everyone is comparing them freshly applied !
Mix the Thermalright TFZ and NT-H2 together let me know.
Courtesy of uncle Carey Holzman, I use the spread method using a nitrile glove. Much less of a mess and no spatula to clean up
I like that you showed temperatures and your testing methods. That helps.
Great Video!! Just ordered the Noctua NT-H2 on Amazon. I always bought Grizzly before
Fantastic video, I am so much into kicking my CPU to it limits and love to reach the coolest spot ever
Thanks bro
Happy to help! Thanks for the comment.
Totally underrated channel. Keep it up bro, nice work!
Thanks, will do!
Great review. Now I regret spending $11 on the Kryonaut when my Noctua 14S came packaged with a perfectly fine paste.
I use those 2 best ones, and work damn good, rather how they do on a Cascade Lake X CPu like the 10920X which is a heater.
Thanks, man! I appreciate the effort put into this review. 👍 I will get a 10g tube of Noctua's paste.
This guy is sooo hard working I definitely subscribed and liked please keep up the great work
Hey thanks a lot! I will do my best :)
@@TechIlliterate so I want your opinion on something
I don't really care what it costs but which product do I get because I'm planning on using an aio and heavy overclocking
This video is a bit older, but the recently released Kryonaut Extreme is the best paste now I think.
Also the pink color makes it super easy to see if you have a good spread going.
I bought it this week because my EVGA RTX2080 XC Ultra card of 2 years old had its thermal paste go bad.
I had never seen it before but the thermal paste became a watery liquid and didn't cover the gpu die properly anymore either.
The new Kryonaut Extreme really dropped the thermals even compared to how the card was out of the box though. Easily hitting 30 degrees celcius idle, 53 degrees with boostlock enabled while idling, and a maximum temperature of 56 degrees in 3D Mark Time Spy with the fans barely spinning.
I am really extremely happy with Kryonaut Extreme, which luckily also now comes in 2ml syringes and not just the expensive 9ml jar.
Also it isn't all about max temperatures, it is about efficient heat transfer away from the CPU or GPU into the cooling block, where it than can be dissipate.
The better it thus can transfer the heat, the easier a time your cooling solution has in trying to dissipate that heat. Simply because the cooling surface actually takes up that heat faster.
So efficient paste will transfer heat easily but also fast. So the ease of transfer and speed of transfer make the difference.
great comparison!! sitting beside my 83yr old grandma and explaining why im watching your vid, shes asked where the control test is without any thermal paste which i agree is a great question. id never build a machine without it but it defs would be interesting to see what kind of temps youd get... keep up the great work man!
lmao I thought about it. Maybe when I can afford a proper test rig. Not willing to push my personal PC that far lol
@@TechIlliterate haha - same here! if you ever do get to being bold and daring, another consideration would be comparing thermal pads vs paste - another thing i'd never do (but have never tried), All shops say it isnt worth it. I have an old 32nM celeron test rig that i'll get to doing such a test when i have the time for it
Great Depression mentality. It's all BS until it's not.
Thanks for letting me freeload!
Nice video, keep it on, this one and the others are helping on my build
This is the best review I have seen so far on thermal paste and for the first time I know the thermal paste to purchase
Thanks a lot
Keep it ✌🏾
Love that graphs and your video, many forgot about stats and proper presentation.
I'm a big fan of Noctua, they're just one of the best choices despite the fact that they're a bit more high end and expensive than Arctic. Noctua pastes always do well on benchmarks. But they do suffer from the pump-out effect over time, so you will need to reapply it every so often. It's really not a big deal for most people though. The issue of pump-out is very overblown. People who are worried about it should look at thermal paste alternatives like thermal sheets, phase change material and liquid metal.
The temperatures and pastes are more important when you overclock, Ofc it doesnt matter when you run it stock and have a decent cooler :) I would want to see a comparison for thermal pastes on GPUs, supposedly it is a bit different then CPUs, but I can't find any tests for GPUs. Something to think about for Kryonaut I found when reading about it is that you need to repaste about once a year which makes the noctua or mx4/mx5 a better choice if you dont wanna have to do that.
Now this, is a top tier video
🙏Thank you kindly.
Thanks man this was a real genuine video . Ill make sure to Sub !!!
Thermalright was basically a thermal solution leader 15-20 years ago... they aren't new. Look at the Peerless Assassin cpu cooler that performs better than my Noctua NHD15 at less than half the cost today.
I love how everyone says realistic gaming workloads aren't as intense as benchmarks. I'm sitting here trying to play dirt rally 2 with an oculus rift S, a 10700kf and a 3080ti.... Still dipping below 60fps at times. VR is a different animal. And racing brings new scenery into frame quickly and consistently.
Yeah true. Even iRacing for me in VR makes my PC sweat.
@@TechIlliterate it's a struggle. I want a higher resolution headset, but I couldn't afford a 3090 to run any more pixels 😂
In my microcenter it is 12 dollars per gram for the kryonaut thermal grizzly paste.
Nice video, was very helpful. Watched quite a few similar videos but I ended up going with your recommendation.
Glad it was helpful!
I think that while on desktop the thermal paste may not matter, on a laptop its a different story. You want the most you can get out of the tiny coolers in them, so every little bit helps.
T-m30 will work for about a month for me... I will try something else. Cool vid.
I’ve almost bought the cheapest mystery paste for 1€ on eBay. Thanks for the advice, picked up mx4
I got the 5.55g Kryonaut when I was going to replace paste on both my gpu and cpu, worth imo
this video had absolutely everything I wanted to know, thanks!
Thanks for watching.
thanks alot for this. Its my firt time on your channel and it was super helpful especially the part you said unless your overclocking you dont need most expensive one.
imma buy arctic mx4 for my laptop. it already keeps my cpu and gpu cool (around 75 on cpu and 65 on the gpu) but i wanna change the paste bcuz in the past 4 months the thermal performance has dropped more than it should have with the warmer weather. I wanna get ahead of that to be able keep my laptop for a long long time. thanks again. subbed
Thank you so much for this video! While I will watch other videos, this is the best starting point for me. Soon I'll be reapplying Thermal Paste to all the PC's in the house @_@ I want the best for my family! Well, best within reason XD
Thank you again for your hard work and dedication!
Actually the TR TFX is the best paste for laptop because of how viscous it is. Watery paste like Kryonaut will pump out after a short time so you have to keep repasting.
For Desktop CPU then sure Kryonaut is almost the best paste, behind Kingping KPx
I used to have a Thermalright SI-97 cooler on my AMD Athlon XP, they've been around a while.
Noctua NT-H2 doesn't mess around the best paste, and last paste I'll ever own
Excellent video. Very informative. Thank you!
Noctua NT-H2 best by far. My 3090 Ti stays super cool at 26c on idle and just above 40 while gaming at high settings
I could be wrong but I think that’s the cooler master thermal paste that comes with the hyper evo 212
your intro really made me like and subcribe haha
wow, dude. great work. thank you
Noctua for me has been very reliable for years even without changing.
Gelid GC Extreme is pretty much in the highest tier, along with Kryonaut and KPx, and you can get 3.5g for $10 or *10g for $20* which is practically a lifetime supply.
I used Gelid GC-Extreme on my PC and laptop after some research, pretty much the closest you can get to cryonaut without the premium price. Laptop got as cool as a cucumber. Amazing value, half the price of cryonaut where I live.
Thermalright pioneered air cooled pc heatsinks with a tower design in early 2000s
I've since learned more about them and have used this paste on GPUs to great effect.
there's also kingpin kpx and gelid gc-extreme which seem to be the most popular competitors to kryonaut in the "extreme performance" category
I overclocked my i5-10600k to 5.0GHz and it has a 360mm aio running at %100 and it got to 91C before shutting down with the thermal paste that came with it, definitely getting a grizzly😂
Give it a shot! I'm sure it will give you better performance.
Thanks for getting right to the point! Great video and thanks for information.
Your reaction to the TRFX price..... LOL
you are so perfect in explaining, please keep on ;)
Old video but I'm sure it's still relevant. I ended up going with Noctua since I have been very impressed with their heatsink/fans. Thanks for the video.