Saying Goodbye to Thermal Paste? Carbonaut Tested 

What use cases could you see this being really useful for? This is a lifesaver for my test bench.

Carbon pad: 7-8 degrees more than standard thermal paste. You can thank me later

For those cold winter days. Your CPU deserves a blanket and a war cup of chocolate...

Carbon the element that makes everything magical

I just use toothpaste. It spreads better and keeps my cpu minty fresh and cool.

2001. Goodbye thermo paste 2010 Goodbye thermo paste 2019. Yeah. Thermo paste isn’t going anywhere.

This is definitelly the most elegant thermal conductor that I've ever saw.

You forgot to mention that its also very consistent to use; which is ideal for testing. It's the same application every time with the same 'amount'.

Use it indefinitely.. installing the cooler cuts it in half..

I was surprised to see the results between the thermal pad vs a very common but older paste like AS 5. Something I use a lot. Nice video. I can see using it for bench testing or a regular computer that will never be overclocked and be in use for a long long time.

Thanks, it's difficult to find so short but helpful video about carbonaut pads, espesially in /rus, but your video is perfictly anwering my question

Change thermal paste once a year....haha im too lazy to do that

Great video man! I'd really like to see a review by you of the Sharkoon c10 or QbOne cases, since they're fairly cheap and support 240mm AIO. Keep up the good work! Cheers!

Great review with results matching my expectations. Thermal Grizzly (der8auer) have always stated this product is approx equivalent to a mid-range thermal paste. I really want to see if it works as a replacement for the pad on the Radeon Vii.

YO! I have read about these pads. What I read is that with each use (install, uninstall, repeat), it wears out because of each metal plate having different areas of "bulges" that can deform it, eventually leading it to we warped and become ineffective

Using this is a no brainer for me, thanks for bringing this to light!

This is really cool. Hope they can improve the temps with newer versions but this is a good start

I really like your videos. I hope you reach 1 million soon :p On the other hand I find it kind of sad that you don't answer as much questions in the comments as previous. If you see this, my question is: Can you do a SFF case video on the UMX1 Plus? That case is so underrated and I really like to see some professional videos about it before I decide which mITX case to buy. Thanks man ♥

What if we laser cut out the heatspreader and the cooler so they fit perfectly. We won't need thermal paste then right?

You analysis as to the temperature delta is a tad off, but that's just because of a general lack of ignorance on the topic throughout the enthusiast community. One metric for thermal performance is given, thermal conductivity, but not the next most important metric, bond line/layer thickness. This is how thick the material is whence compressed between the IHS and the cold plate of the cooling solution, whether that is a liquid cooling block or air cooler. The thickness of a thermal grease is dependent upon it's yeild stress. If Carbonaut is incompressible, then it's BLT is 0.2 mm. I've measured PK-3, MX-2, MX-4, and Kryonaut. At ~18 PSI (Intel spec for bare die is 15 to 25 PSI) I measured the following BLTs: Conductonaut 0.008 mm 73.0 W/m*°K PK-3 0.014 mm 11.2 W/m*°K MX-2 0.024 mm 5.6 W/m*°K MX-4 0.040 mm 8.5 W/m*°K Kryonaut 0.046 mm 12.5 W/m*°K Carbonaut 0.200 mm 62.5 W/m*°K This is why Carbonaut, even with its wicked high z-axis thermal conductivity, did poorly in comparison. If the IHS is thinned to ~0.5 mm thick/thin compared to the ~2 mm thickness, the performance would be greater than just swapping out the TIM.

I would imagine that regular human greasy fingerprint touches on the surfaces would cause this product to loose performance over time.

You can skip to @ 5:30 -- Carbonaut performs worse than low end thermal paste.

I’ve used the IC Thermalpad on a 2700x and 2700. No issues and I’m not interested in using paste ever again. I’ll be sure to try this pad out if there’s ever a day I need a new pad.

i would love to see you test the carbonaut with watercooling if possible? i am upgrading to a ryzen 3900x soon and in so also getting a new water cooling system, but would like to see how it holds up in transfering the heat with a watercooling system

I used Noctua NT-H1 on my very first computer I built in 2009 and when it came down to replacing it a few days ago, it was still very much moist underneath like it first went on. Thermals were exactly the same using the new paste vs 10 year old paste, so I now have the upmost confidence in the product in that it will last for years.

I've owned this for a while now, I was using it to hopefully test about 20 coolers. Unfortunately it tended to stick to the cooler rather than the IHS making removal difficult and easy to tear. I got about 10 uses out of it before it was too worn I decided to retire it. For $16 USD I would have rather payed $20 for 5.5g of Kryonaut that probably would've gotten me more use. I think the advantage of this is it doesn't dry up, so in a system where you don't want to worry about replacing paste.

great vid 👌, just wondering what alcohol wipes are you using to clean the paste off? because i use ISA and microfibre cloths and that's very frustrating.

You don't need to reapply paste once a year...that's nonsense. You could easily go 3-5 years.

i testet other brand, i also got bad performance... (too hot) BUT THEN i noticed it moved while putting the cooler on it... i then redid it without it moving (was relativly hard) and thermals were better, are you sure it didnt moved while putting cooler on?

Thanks so much for this video. I cut a little square off of my Logitech mouse mat and boom I have carbonaut!

Been waiting for this review! Yay!

And this comment section needs a dose of Cosmonaut.

I just bought one. Not carbonaut but IC graphite pad. Temps went up by maybe 2-3c but I'll take that hit over messing with messy paste again.

Arctic silver 5 in my 2600K rig since 2011/2012. Same temps. Even though the speed of the fans that came with the ThermalRight Silver Arrow has declined somewhat in that time.

Excellent vidéo. A bit disappointed by carbonaut's performance. Thermal past stay the best performance solution.

I've used this before. It's ok. I'll still be using thermal paste

It whould be fun to see various CPU thermals with the Carbonaut and one can hope that one day this product has as good thermals as liquid metal

Could you use this in place of a thermal paste/liquid metal in a delid is the pad thick enough to make full contact from the die to the IHS? I would be really interested to see a test to see how it stacks up against the factory compound. I know conductonaut is preferred but with how expensive it is and how often you need to reapply it the hassle is a bit much for me personally

It would be nice if they could cut it in the exact shape of the heatspreaders. It's so expensive, it's really not an unreasonable expectation.

nice idea, but I'll wait until the graphene ones are available. They should have a higher thermal transfer, and also be much more durable.

Is there any version of carbonaut for laptops ? I don't want to remove my back panel every time I use my laptop

Have you tested the new Thermal Grizzly KryoSheet Graphene Pads that der8auer showcased at computex?

How am I supposed to use this between the socket and the processor? Do I need to puncture it with the pins or nah?

very good for chiller setups

Would be cool to see this compared to indium foil, or just an indium foil thermal test in general

Damn, Kryonaut can really keep up with the Conductonaut liquid metal.

I tried some of Panasonic carbon thermal pad material Digikey # P14965-ND THERM PAD 180MMX115MM W/ADH GRAY 0.0008" (0.020mm) one sheet is 4.5" X 8" so you can do a good number of cpu's with one sheet. The thinner the carbon pad has better the transfer vertically if you read the specs. I used it as a cpu thermal transfer on a Intel 9600K in place of thermal compound. It is easy to cut since it has a removable mylar backing. With the mylar removed it holds together well and has a slight adhesive so it stays in place. You can peel it off to reposition if you need to. I could not notice a difference in the cpu temperatures after application. I don't think it's better.

So by it's fragility the form of a ryzen or thr processor would match better for legevity

Are there numbers out there that support it's durability in reuse conditions? Is its performance consistent between reapplications? Might foul some numbers while benching components

Good presentation and review 😎👍

I tried semen once. I managed to get -256°C with 69GHZ clock speed

This is great imagine lot of thermal paste packing waste you can save with this product

I see it pretty useful in machines that run all day long, maybe in NAS servers, bigger servers, some office computers and in general any computers that are made for longevity as those pads can be reused. One thing where it could be very nice is memory cooling and MOSFET/VRM cooling for overclockers and enthusiasts but it's conductive but i think it can be trimmed to appropriate size with scissors and maybe even stacked. It's pretty cheap in long term for test bench users and reviewers as it's infinite lifespan like you said, and the price for one of those thermal pads is pretty low.. :)

No thanks ,I'd rather use icing sugar as per Lyle from Bitwit!

I use a few drops of engine coolant if it can keep a car ticking along then it can keep my CPU cool.

My problem is losing thermal paste between applications. I've spent a fair biy restocking :p. Makes the pad appealing.

can you use eye glass cleaner if it has isopropyl alcohol to clean thermal paste

Would u recommend this for a PS4 pro looking for a new Thermalpaste and now im thinking about this.

It looked like the Ryzen carbonaut pad was the one that was used and overlapping that intel heat spreader as it is quite a bit bigger than the Intel variant.

Not exactly to do with this but I've had my PS4 pro since January 2017, do u think changing the paste to some good stuff could help, I'm scared to try though I've never done it before but I'd like to clean the hearsink aswell see if I can quiet it down abit?

would you recomend this for a laptop? I have a laptop with the intel core i5-1035g7, that runs at 20w on stock, and I'm planning on reselling it, even on heavy loads it doest goes beyond 70 degrees, when gamin, pushing it to the limit is around 56 -60 degrees celcius, would it make a lot of difference? the exact model is the gpd win max (2020)

this doesnt fill micro cracks between heatsink and IHS. so its not up there to thermal paste and a 0.2mm gap causes some heat build up but compared to artic silver 5, this is 1 degree hotter but amazing thing is, it doesnt cause a core based difference, all core are properly temperature distributed(i guess, tighter heatsink mounting)

Although I picked up the IC Diamond graphite thermal pad I bought it because Ive gone through a few AM4 CPUs already and intend to upgrade again if I can sell my 2600 for a profit. Ive gone from a I3 6100 to a Athlon X4 950 to a couple of 2400Gs and now a R5 2600.

Wrap one around the thermal pads on a GPU to cool the memory and VRM's more efficiently Id imagine they would look like warped presents LOL

can it be used on delidded cpu's? i wanna see thermals for that.

what if i put in like 2-3 sheets of carbonaut?

Use uranium instead

I dunno about this maintenance compulsion. I had a watercooled PC (lost it in a fire just recently), had it since the i7-4770k came out and I never changed the thermal paste, or even the fluid (just had to top it off). For the paste I've used IC diamond and fluid is some premixed coolant from aqua computer with corrosion inhibitor, biocide as well as red dye. Temps didn't noticeably change during that time.

0.2 mm sounds rather thin. How do you know that the heat sink has made contact with it? At least with the paste, you put a dot and the heat sink will press on it to spread around. With the cloth thing, I have no idea if it is properly sandwiched.

What's the difference between this and Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad?

I was hoping it was better I bought a thinkpad t540p a couple months ago which is a sevral year old laptop with a 4810mq and a m730 gpu i think and figured id repaste it with good stuff and got the kryonaut and did not really see any difference in temp and scores in like cinebench or anything so i kinda wonder if i did a bad job applying it but the cooler is obviously not huge and it is a 47 watt cpu

It would be nice to see the difference between this product and stock thermal paste on a high end GPU, It would be awesome to use this on my next gaming build as I really have no interest in servicing other than blowing dust out and having thermal consistency over several years with no extra work would be awesome.

I bet it's very useful for Macbooks/pro, cause you don't ever have to re-thermal paste it again.

You might want to run some tests with Ryzen to see if carbonaut affects XFR boost because of higher thermals before permenantly using it to bench

What people should do is apply it to the bottom of a cpu cooler, and then glue the edges on with an epoxy or something, just the edges that way it sticks on, doesnt tear and you can apply it effortlessly every time

3:30 this man finishes the TP and does not get more. Animal

BTW, you should tighten the cooler down a lot because Carbonaut performs better the thinner it is i.e. the less volume you have between the cpu and cooler, according to de8auer from Thermalgrizzly.

Man I hear what you're saying in regards to running out of paste 😰

Would love to see a comparison on a lapped CPU + HSF unit. Also vs the cheap generic name carbon pad. Some claim that stuff is better than carbonaut

seems like a decent idea for testing/troubleshooting, but not for permanent installations.

Given the gap in performance between it and the pastes, it would have been interesting to see temps for nothing between the heatsink and CPU to provide more context. Then and only then can you say if its worth using or not as the difference between it and pastes is pretty substantial.

Do not throw it even if ripped. It is can be cut into tiny pieces for doing cooling on other things like heatsink ram. I put some pieces on my NVMe drive and put a 3rd party heatsink on it. Improve the thermals a fair bit.

Hey i got a i7 7700K delid. is this pad a good option? Thanks!

Great video good information I just subbed Considering that I’m building machines that are going to be a 24 seven operation and considering that you have overclock the hell out of that CPU way above specified limits I think this thermal pad would be more than enough Everyone is so quick to judge that arctic silver five does so much better and everybody else is doing so much better but they don’t understand that you have to give it at least 200 hours for any thermal compound to settle in realistically to thicken up and then see if it will hold I know this for fact is arctic silver five on their website flat out says that they need a minimum of 50 hours to 200 hours for it actually to settle I don’t know about other people but if arctic silver saying that I’m pretty sure everybody else is about the same way where as this carbon pad you are not going to have to worry about it settling you’ll have your temperatures right away and what to expect maybe I have to do some adjustments but at least you don’t have to wait a minimum of 50 hours upwards of 200 hours for thermal compound to basically get a burn in As far as the liquid metal I’ve never used it heard about it but really had no desire to my biggest concern is say that the computer gets a little on the hot her side and for some reason that stuff decides to leak out especially on a vertical motherboard then what the hell are you supposed to do maybe somebody can fill me in on this that would be greatly appreciated I don’t know how tacky that stuff is But I’m into servers big industrial equipment shits got to work Other news I did look up the heat sink that he used it is very common heat sink but he cannot do an fx 9590 which is 220 watt a.m. 3+ socket so I would expect that the heat sink may have gotten heat soaked To a certain degree And yes I understand what he mentioned before about the thermal compound just filling Peaks and valleys where as the thermal pad is removing the ability from each metal surface from touching each other therefore the thermal Pat is doing a lot more work than the actual thermal compound is doing

Can you retest this when the more efficient, lower TDP Ryzen 3000 comes out?

would like to see thicker versions of this as thermal pad replacement e.g. on GPU RAM

Why did you only talk about it being good for lower power systems instead of showing us? A delta of 7-8 degrees isn't useful to know if it is for an edge case.

Not yet, but there is future in this thing

I’m using it in my watercooled build right now (i7-7700k/4.9Ghz), saves me having to get new paste during maintenance lol. I’m lazy

Great vid! I have Predator PH 517-51 with i9-8950HK processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070. Would you be able to advise me what pads sizes should I go for?

Ive notice how close as5 with kyronaut temps are. Watching older reviews, i though kryonaut was alot cooler. Good to know as as5 is much cheaper. Been using it since the early 2000.

for the price of one pad you could buy a quality thermal paste that will last you entire lifetime (UNLESS you are hardware reviewer)

I think I will just stick with the IC Graphite Thermal Pad. Just as good as TIM and definitely a lot more resilient than this. Has actually been reused hundreds of times in testing, can be cut for size and cheap as well.

Now we can stack like 50 of these for the full effect

Please make a video 5 years in the future about this and its condition

There's the argument for consistent parameters during testing products. Really the margine of error accounts for any real inconsistency unless using totally different paste brands or something.

Why not just ship cooler interfaces with this preinstalled?

It looks like it could clean my eyeglasses very, very well...

can it be used between ihs on a delided cpu?

Hi, I have a I7 7700K and I wanna buy a Carbonaut to overclock it. I see from dimension, that the 38 x 38 could be good for the 7700K that is 37.5mm x 37.5mm But I wanna ask You, could I use a Carbonaut for this CPU? There are some precautions or directions to use it with this CPU? Thx in advance for all the support.