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@@Steellmor How do you catch a cold from a cool pillow, does the technology promote bacterial growth? or is this statement nonsense you pulled out of your ass
@@iMRM-ez8of I'm assuming it's because they believe it could function like sleeping with an ice pack the size of a pillow which could lower your body temperature overnight and might make you more suceptible to illness? At least, that's the only thing I got.
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For those wondering why the pads perform worse than the paste; although the pads have a *much* higher thermal conductivity rating, they are much much thicker (more material the heat has to pass through) than the tiny squished dot of thermal paste. You should take care on what GPUs you use the pads because their thickness may lessen pressure contact on VRMs.
should try the carbonaught pad on the radeon 7, the pad would be better used with anything that has HBM due to the fact that the core is usually at a different height than the HBM
Don't use the pads with watercoolers. I happen to know a lot about this and how electrolysis occurs. There are some videos around electrolysis most videos are about fish aquariums but the same physics apply.
Hey man, think a little about it, you're wandering why there is not a lot of videos showing this on gpus, well the main pro of this cooling solution is that you can swap the cooled components/ the cooler on the component, easily and without throwing away anything, so for cheaper. But for gpus, swapping often gpu coolers is quite uncommon, and swapping gpu dies is even more uncommon, that's why it's kinda logic to have mainly videos testing these on cpus, that much more people swap or use to test different coolers.
@@lamarmottedesinternets5134 i do agree on your reasoning, but one point is that if you do put a custom block on a gpu, the last thing you want to do is replace the paste, and you can reuse it for next upgrade
@@Tallnerdyguy hmmm, yeah you're right didn't think about custom watercooling, it's true that you don't want to disassemble your whole loop just to do that.
Hmm......... So this Thermal Pad is only "As Good" as Thermal Paste except with the pads they are suppose to have an Lifetime expectancy as the paste will eventually need to be replaced. I think I might still give this a shot on an AMD R9 390 to see what happens.
I tried out the Intel Graphite pads which is pretty much the same as this except it gives better transfer performance but I went back to paste it covers more consistently especially if the transfer plate and the die doesn’t match up perfectly. Also worth considering is that the GPU is not held down as tightly as the cpu and vibration over time could cause the pad to move out of place.
Please try the carbonaut on the radeon vii since its high current draw and weird junction temps at stock.. Nice hair btw lol ahah keep up with the great work!
@@joshuascholar3220 i think the problem lies more on the surface area. Thermal paste can fill the microscratch that may exist on the cpu, while the pad can not
I think I'll stick with my kryonaut, I don't really see the point in something that is supposed to have a much better thermal conductivity on paper but ends up with the same or worse performance in real world application. That and cost isn't all that great. I can do multiple applications with the tube that costs around the same price anyway.
You only have to buy the Carbonaut once and it lasts forever. That works out very much cheaper than multiple applications of thermal paste over the years.
@@Safetytrousers It would take probably 5 or 6 applications to use up the tube of kryonaut. That's at least 6 years. Still won't really work out to be much cheaper, and that's assuming the person doesn't accidentally damage that carbonaut. I mean, I can see how someone would be happy with it, but it's not worthwhile to me. Especially given that it doesn't do quite as good a job.
@@YaviOld Yep, that I've done. 1st thing always with new motherboard is to take out southbridge cooler and replace stock bubblegum with thermal paste. That tip was just for Brett as he said he wasted a good pad, as it's not big enough anymore for CPU, but is plenty big for X570s.
Hopefully you didn't get any oils on it from your face when you smelled it. I would imagine that could alter your results. This video is a great idea, and super interesting for an long time builder.
I was tempted to do this too because my build would be relatively long term, I don’t want to be disassembling my custom loop until I can get a huge performance uplift by swapping hardware. Change coolant sure but not change hardware. Unfortunately carbonaut just wasn’t actually possible to buy for too long so I went with kryonaut. Depending on what kind of longevity I get from the kryonaut this still might be where I end up a few years down the line.
@@ShinyRayquazza I tell you what, I didn’t know what I was talking about. I did build my dream rig in 2019 and watercooled it with PETG hardline tube, big rads tons of fittings etc. The thing is you have to drain and clean your loop eventually so the thermal paste endurance is not a concern for watercooling, despite Der8auer openly admitting Kryonaut is a “relatively wet” paste so it will only give peak performance for a year or so. So bottom line don’t worry about it for watercooling.
Kevin Eldridge didn’t they have to use pads because the HBM and the Die were not even I can’t remember? Also would performance increase if someone put a good paste on it instead just curious
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I'm not gonna tear apart GPU's every few years so...carbonaut all the way. I care more about longevity than few % of performance. I'd argue that pre-built PC's should also come with carbonaut as well. It's unlikely that person who buy pre-built will go and change thermal pastes.
My car speakers don't like your voice apparently. I had to unplug my phone for the hissing and overblown sound to go away. Weird. Like the test though. Wish they could have made the pads a smidge thinner for better performance though.
I used this carbonaut pad on my 5700xt and it literally fucked up... gpu became extremely unstable and crashes instantly when i run a benchmark test like timespy as it performed at least 20 degrees hotter than my mx4 paste. And no this is not about mounting pressure. I squeezed the shit out of that pad and still made no difference. I had high hopes mann. Im seriously disappointed. Someone please explain why this does not work for a 5700xt but its totally fine on a 2080ti?
Was cutting the pad really necessary? I've never had one so I don't know, but who cares if it drapes of the side of the die a little as long as everything can be securely refastened?
The pad is electrically conductive, it could short out what ever electrical it touches and therefore needs to be trimmed to the proper size before use.
I been trying for a few days to get a 38x38, but I can't seem to find anywhere that has them in stock in the states. Do you know where I can order one? I am tempted to order the TR one, and cut it to size, but would like to save money if I can and get the right one.
To be honest with you I don’t believe in these, the reason why we put on thermal paste, is to fill the „uneven“ surface (non perfect surface) Most people also put to much thermal paste on it, there should be still metall to metall contact between CPU and cooler So the problem is, it doesnt fill the gaps perfectly, but it fills them slightly and has better thermal conductivity. The liquid metall is genius, it fills the mikroscopic gaps better and is a really good conductor, another plus is, you cannot overdose it, meaning there will be metall to metall contact between cooler and CPU, because if you overdose, it will squeeze out of the sides, and fuck up your electronics. So remember, apply only very very very very very little bit of thermal paste (so the cpu is just about covered)
Every time I see a reviewer messing around with one of these things they always use their fingers. Is finger grease not an issue with these things? Will that not effect thermal conductivity?
this is funny as this is the only video I could find which is the question I was asking as pad just brings up memory pads and I wanted to know if it would be better for my 4090 as my paste keeps failing and hot spot delta keeps rising
Good video BUT! lol, the thermal pad thickness 0.5, 1.00, 1.5mm etc is as important as the other dimensions, You didnt really take this into consideration in your tests.
i'm sitting at 26C and on 43C on full load , but under air ! But also having a super jank, four-slot cooler on my GPU :D a Raijintek Morpheus II paired with two 120mm nocuta's ^^
Anyone thought of coloring in the the contact point on the heatsink and cpu with a graphite pencil before applying a thermal pad? I have a hunch that it would help fill gaps but no idea if it would help thermals.
Over 80°c full load... That's why i replaced the stock cooler of my 2080 ti with the evga hybrid cooler kit. Now with a good OC reaches 66 ° full load with 25° ambient and 72° with 34° ambient (yeha it's summer) of course fans are very quiet nothing in comparison to the stock "jet fan "
Hello Pro... i has a question...??? if i buy a 1660Ti vga.. and future i buy one more 1660Ti ... anything.. if working ... it's good .. but i do not know , if i am playing game , is two 1660ti better then one???
Cringe everytime he touches the pad with his oily fingers, and there was visible debris on the pad when he applied it to the heatsink. Dang that was sloppy, and likely reduced the pad's heat transfer capacity! :|
Overpriced thermalpaste or pads are just that, overpriced. It doesn't really matter if you get on average a few degrees lower. This is just marketing with extra steps.