AliExpress Thermal Paste Comparison (feat. GD900, GD900-1 & GD007) GD900 is AWESOME 

Very good data! I got some GD900 2 years ago based on the TechYes recommendation, and have been impressed every since.

finally these thermal pastes tested by a reliable person

Thank you Luumi, I really love this kind of videos. Great information regarding the lifespan of the thermal paste.

Luumi I tested the HY880 vs the GD900 about 6 months ago and I think they are identical thermal pastes... I tested them with 2 different mounts on 8 CPU's: 5960x, 6900K, 8086K, 9900K, 10900K.. Then from Red Team 1800X, 2600, 2700X. Sorry my AMD CPU options were limited at the time but that being said it was interesting that across all of the AMD CPU's the HY vs GD the deltas were within margin of error of only .90 deg being the biggest delta I saw with the averages all very close to being .50 with HY winning 3 and GD winning 5. With the Intel CPU's I saw deltas as big as 1.6 on the 6900K and 1.45 on the 5960X. The rest of the CPU's were all below .6 delta again with HY winning 6 and GD winning 2 but with such small margins that were all pretty much within error. I really feel from the testing, the look, the feel, the smell, the spread, that these pastes have got to be close to 90% the same... the HY had a very slight detectable rubberish smell to it and was maybe 1 or 2 shades darker than the GD but thats all I could see. The HY880 cup was 2 months and 4 days old when tested and the GD was 7 months and 9 days old just to mention as a notable difference.

use gd900 since 2017 till now, and i am happy with that. thanks for this luumi :)

Informative and interesting! It’s clear you really understand the subject being able to point out limitations and caveats of the testing done by both you and others which is very helpful and only further proves how reliable you are. It’s rare to find people who are careful with the way they obtain and interpret data let alone also able to present the information objectively. Thanks for the video.

my 30g tube of gd900 just arrived this week very happy with the performance, on par with noctua nth1

We need a good old fashioned thermal paste round up of all the common high end pastes. I currently use Kryonaut, but I used to use Prolimatech PK3, which is still really good stuff. I know this is extremely time consuming, so it’s cool you put in the time 👍🏼

I have always bought GD900 since TYC's video, and yeah, they are easy to spread, really cheap and they held well after years. I bought a pack of three tubes and after a lot of builds I still have a little left. After this video I think I will get another pack of three tubes of standard GD900. Thank you very much for your tests.

Great video and lot of informations, thank you !

Thank you very much for making this video m8

We're using GD900 in our laptop repair service for pretty much every laptop we fix for years.. Never had any issues whatsoever.

Thanks, I ordered one just to see how it holds up over time.

GD900 was quite poor in my laptop (direct die) test, it isn't thick enough. Heatspreader CPU paste tests are so different. Genesis Silicon 850 might be worth a try for a heatspreader CPU, it's quite runny and performed 10 degrees better than Genesis Silicon 800 (Genesis 850 could be a rebrand of Halnziye HY-HP13)

I have good experience of GD900. Got myself 150gram jar in july 2019. It still works fine. Shelf life is mostly directive. I have used it both GPU and CPU. I recommend it is good basic use thermal paste. Not much drying and my pc has been on nonstop since then. I don't shut down my pc ever.

What I have noticed is that thermal pastes tend to differentiate a lot when the surfaces of the heat source and receiver get uneven. For example it is possible to see huge deviations when using a cooler with direct contact heatpipes. Comparing the same pastes might show ~4-5c different temperatures and if you compare them again between polished plates, they will perform the same. It's all about viscosity at this point I guess.

Thank you. Time to bulk buy GD900 as I use a lot of thermal paste.

I recommend you test the Deepcool Z10 😄 It was surprisingly good on my laptop although Gelid was still better.

Yes gd-900 is good at very beginning. It performs almost same as mx-4. But as time goes the thermal paste disperse to sides and connection between die and heatsink reduces. GPU die almost gets naked. This is why I do not recommend gd-900 for gpu. But I can recommend it for cpu.

What's interesting to note, since I've found the Tech Yes City Video just a while ago (since I need some new paste, maybe going for the Gelid), the 900-1 and 007 seem to have a completly different operating temperature range which it's supposed to work with (around 120° or 258F or so instead of the usual 200° / 392F), is this a normal thing for "Silver" based (GD900-1) or other premium thermal pastes?

I found something interesting when using gd007 on ryzen 5 5600 processor. U need a lot paste, not too much, not thin spread or small dot in center. But with spread method then add more paste in cpu and then spread it again, make sure the texture like wet dough / cheese cream. At my place, it can lower 5 degrees celsius with method i explain above. I thought it was margin error but no, i testing again for 3 times to make sure the results was real.

Luumi, I was wondering when are you going to test the new Artic Mx-6 and the Corsair XTM70. Looking forward to a new 2022 thermal paste comparison.

GD900 is the best when it comes to price to performance, my PC easily get dusty in my area so I frequently disassemble it to clean and repaste everytime, the GD900 is perfect for that.

In our country we can get the 30g syringe for roughly 7 USD. It's cheap. I still use the KPx though since I want the best possible performance when doing benchmarks. Great comparison! I guess Arctic MX-5 will be next?

Всем привет. Тестировал gd007 на rx580. Сначала температура как будто меньше чем на 900, а потом такая же или даже хуже. Мне показалось что 007 сохнет быстрее. Наносить её тяжелее и стоит она дороже. Обе пасты у меня в баночках. Перемешивал при нанесении. Давно подозревал что что-то не так с 007. Сейчас взял на пробу Amperin ss100, но ещё не тестировал. Спасибо за обзор. Ясно одно - теплопроводность не единственный параметр. И возможно даже не самый важный.

@ Luumi, I'm Polish so maybe my translation would be some kind of help: the test was on processor overclocked to use 142 tdp - it's maximal approved by manufacter (AMD) ratio. The GD 900 was tested in earlier youtube movie of that author on normal CPU having normal tdp: 65 to about 90 tdp, cause 900 is better in this situation than real overheating. Sorry for any mistakes, hope it helped!

Nice.. will be interesting to see if the 007 was a bad batch.. suspicious lack of manufacturing date..

Thank you very much for the information provided. Do you happen to know or have you tested Wovibo WB-4 17W/m.k (from Aliexpress) ?

Good stuff. Any plans to test Arctic MX-5?

I think that the expiration date printed on the thermal pastes may apply more when it is already installed and receives constant heat due to heat dehydration, so I think it should last for years stored without so much problem, always and when it does not lose the appropriate texture. Regarding the results of the GD007, which does not have production dates printed, there is a possibility that you have bought a fake thermal paste since it seems like a Chinese national sport to produce fake products, even products that are not even prestigious brands.

there are those videos of hy880 and gd007 new batch?

Would be awesome to add a GPU test to the mix. Direct die might show larger deltas between pastes.

Is it possible that the thermal pastes with higher thermal velocity need longer to cure? I know the whole curing thing has been debated over the years, but would be interested to see if maybe the temps settle after a few weeks of usage..

I tried the 900 seemed ok! Nice smooth liquid and easy to spread!! Very easy How do you apply that paste spread or line/dot??

How good the gd900 on long run ?

could you check the phobya nanogrease extreme paste ? it claims 16wmk but performs sometimes worse sometimes better

Hello lummi, did you test gd900 or gd900-1 subzero? Is it ok, for ss, cascade or even ln2? Thanks!

The one thumbs down must have bought gd007 😂

I'm going to buy a fat syringe of GD900 for _no reason_ . I have 10g of GC Extreme but the 100g sausage of thermal paste is so damn funny. And if it's basically just as good as any elite name brand paste, it'll be a functional novelty.

Hey man, I'm not an expert, but doesn't this have to do with healing time? The tendency is for the paste to improve as it is stressed over long periods of use.

Great video, congratulations... Would you like to test a Brazilian Paste? Thermal Silver Implastec. If there is interest, I will send it to you at no cost.

Did you test HY880 after all? 😁

I buy the GD007 from GD official AliExpress store (i suspect the other stores Sell inferior non-original product, because... Is China). And Is awesome, i had almost infinite paste that i use in every where, Even servers and never fail me in years!!!

What about hc-151 ... You heard anything about it or maybe test it ??

One i've found to be fantastic is Halnziye HY883, punches well above its weight.

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GD900 (4.8 W/K m) GD900-1 (6.0 W/K m) GD007 (6.8 W/K m) and yet the performance gets worse with increasing thermal conductivity

Thx

Gd 900 Is it good at least

where is the graphic of gd900-1

Is GD900 electric conductive?

I'm starting to suspect that Arctic Silver 6 isn't coming. :(

i bought gd900 and gd007. After stress testing both, gd007 comes out on top for me. no ac, open case, 30C room temp. zotac rtx 2070s mini stock thermal paste. gd007 - from 83C to 72C. gd900 - 77C. same goes for my cpu, gd007 works very well paired with cryorig h7.

Can you try testing it with GPU? I have both GD-007 and GD900 and yes I can confirm GD900 is better than GD-007 in terms of CPU thermals. However when I tested GD900 vs GD007 for GPU's I get better results with GD-007 than GD900. I'm hoping that you can test this and confirm if we'll have the same results.

It's weird that TIM's with higher thermal conductivity perform worse compared to the GD900. But not the same can be said when talking about thermal pads with higher thermal conductivity.

GD 900 is over rated, when the cooler gets hot its loses conductivity fast. If temp of your GPU is more than 75C-78C don't expect cooling from GD 900. I expect GD 007 is more stable but I have to test it.

Fact that gd900 price to Performance 👍

so GD900-7 is best for GPU??

You can never have enough thermal paste people just don't understand this.

You know it made no changes because your cooling to ambient temps.

Are there fake GD900s on aliexpress, how to spot them?

The thing is how long it lasts

1:12 how would i trust your findings when you are setring yourself up for a bias?

The more expensive paste performs the worst 😆

time to test and add mx5 from arctic

Using gd900 everywhere even on GPU's

has anyone tried putting thermal paste is mason jar in the freezer? could keep the shit from drying out

GD900 is awesome

GD900 for computers I don't give a fuck about, and GC-Extreme for Precisions and computers I do care about :^)

just bought a 30g syringe for 95 cents shipped lol

For CPU good but not for GPU! Is not better MX-4

Table game is strong.

GD900 quickly turns into gum.

I've had nothing but bad experiences with GD900, my CPU always runs at 60 idle and 90 with a browser open lol.

Mx5 definetly has more life comparing to the gd900 🤣🤣🤣

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Wtf gd 900 is the cheapest and the best!.

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Good comparison, but talks way too much, my god, this video could've laste 7 minutes.