Best thermal paste tests

Do they try to deceive when they price their top pick by the gram? On average, how many CPUs will five grams cover? They also low ball the $20.46 plus shipping price available at newegg. Maybe it all works out for a guy who builds one or two PCs a year. In my particular case, this is a better bargain:

Do they try to deceive when they price their top pick by the gram? On average, how many CPUs will five grams cover? They also low ball the $20.46 plus shipping price available at newegg. Maybe it all works out for a guy who builds one or two PCs a year. In my particular case, this is a better bargain:

If you look very closely, you can see three white tubs next to the big silver can. Mouser sells a small white tub of grease for $155.85.

Danke,

It doesn't sound like they tested thermal conductivity. They probably believed claims.

The Dow Corning is rated 2.5 w/mk, which is the only one I believe.

This sounds like a weird gamer cult.

On a sunny day (Sun, 25 Sep 2022 09:34:55 -0700) it happened John Larkin snipped-for-privacy@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Yes, 'tritium' based thermal paste? I would not want it around:

I have a nice tritium light in the shower.. enough light to see when it is dark...

So do not believe everything written well some thing anyways:

søndag den 25. september 2022 kl. 18.35.06 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

but it eats aluminium so you need to use a copper heatsink or heatspreder

"Don" snipped-for-privacy@crcomp.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@crcomp.net:

The 'paste' used by chip makers to attach their dies to the chip substrate media is most commonly a Silver filled conductive epoxy.

Some of the stuff in the Teds list claim 70 w/mk.

Metal alloys have bad thermal and electrical conductivity. A CPU against a very flat copper heat sink probably doesn't benefit much from an exotic thermal paste. The important thing for a filler compound is good flow and small grain size.

The universal 16.5 number is suspect too. People probably copied people on that one. Real w/mk measurements wouldn't be all the same.

John Larkin snipped-for-privacy@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Two planar sutfaces mated and utilizing ANY 'thermal paste' of ANY nature does little because it ONLY fills out the non-planar voids, which should be a small number tostart with. Paste is for folks who do not know how to design, much les implement precision sink-to- device mating scenarios, which a mass produced product may or may bot exhibit. It all comes down to the quality of that mated pair and the process which manufactures such matings in an automated production environment. Perfectly planar devices and sinks used on prefectly planar scenarios can almost be used the same way two quartz surfaces can meld when mated. Remember, the paste is only there to fill the relatively tiny voids encountered in a mass produced product.

Onesy twosy items can be handled individually by assembly folks. But those days are gone. Not much is out there for custom setups.