The LAST Thermal Paste you'll ever need??

I use only Liquid Metall, maybe if they can make it thicker to chage Termal pad. Can i Nitro Nitrogen it with the Pad?

I'm very interested if this was tested during DeLid/ReLiding? And if it's recommended?

7:57 "You could actually have diarrhea" that killed me

7:58 "You could actually have diarrhea"
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sorry it looked smaller when he was holding it

why is that pad so small?

its graphine

So this is where the AMD engineers got their idea or the thermal pads.

@2:40 Hue Hue

I bought one of these probably 9 months ago based on this video and I haven't been disappointed. I've always hated the imprecise nature of thermal paste and the "about the size of a pea" type of guidelines for its application. I've had to disassemble my system a couple of times since buying this product, and I really love not making a run to (insert electronics store name) to buy overpriced thermal paste because I didn't happen to have any on hand. It will just always be there and work. I love that.

It is so funny the way he transitions to his commercial

It is so funny the way he transition to his commercial

WHAT IS THE BEST LIQUID METAL ???

using on FX-8350 OC and works great!

would this be able to be used in replacement of the thermal pasted in a delidded cpu?

To possibly prevent it from moving could you put a teeny dab of thermal paste to hold it in place?

i swear i just switched my thermal paste now this video appears

Apparently no longer available on Amazon.com BOOOOOOOOoooooooo....... but is available on Amazon.com.au but the bastards wont deliver it to me in New Zealand the wankers

use lube......never dry...

I wonder what would happen if you use that and thermos paste at the same time?

Aha Panasonic pre-cut sheets. Costs about 10x times more than buying it from Panasonic I think. :D

I just bought this stuff in bulk for other fun projects: www.ebay.de/itm/10-Sheets-99-5-Pure-Graphite-Flexible-Foil-Sheet-Graphoil-Gasket-20x25cm/122624326558?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=423032789612&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
For bigger chips you can cut it to every size you'd like. It's for sale in different thicknesses.

Is it true a beefy CPU fan cooler chews through thermal paste quicker than a average cpu fan cooler?

Can i put it in my razor blade 14 ?

Just bumping this comment thread as the Radeon 7 teardown's show that they are using a Carbon Fiber graphite pad for the gpu. You have to wonder though since cooling seems within 1 degree or so, if the longevity on the thermal pad compared to the thermal paste. I think long terms the pad wins out as over time the paste will dry out over extended use, and the thermal pad keeps on going.

Wow forget about the thermal paste.

Where is your anti static wrist band!!!

4:32 "Just for the sake of... You know, transparency, no thermal paste." And then a part of the video is cut, they could have applied the paste then!

Do this on a smartphone haha :)

use under the lid as well

I love that he dropped the pad.

I've used it for 4 months never of 67c gaming for hours

This is a great solution but if the surfaces are not perfectly flat(lapping) and the surface isn’t completely covered it could suffer in performance. I feel like this definitely could have been an issue in the tests they ran.

hi what cpu cooler is that

Please try the Liquid MetalPad

Could/would you use this in the Razer Blade 15? I feel like it wouldn't stay in place

MacBook Pro i9?
Mac Mini 2018 be interesting to see how this would work better in these both as an alliterative to liquid metal.

4:40 no calibrated torque driver is a no no. These sil pads have been around in industry for some time. Chomerics also makes a variety of sil pads.

*easy to remove* now that's neat for nerds

Crack glove was invented for a reason (blow torch finger burn). That was hilarious btw

yep they need a bigger pad

so is it better than thermal paste then? if so i want it. It takes the guesswork out of applying thermal paste

4:02

Uh why does the like button say 6.3k38k? Wut? Did Linus drop this video too?

7:59 You could have diarrhea.....

So LTT is going to save a bunch of money on builds from this point forward eh? How does it work with waterblocks?

How would it perform against an overclocked i9 9900k?

Stick one inbetween the die and the IHS.

Carbonaut please.....

With the 35 W/mk + 800 W/mk sideways it dissipates like a 4 W/mk tooth paste? WTF?

the question now is did they keep using these instead of paste? seems like a great idea

"why do I even employ these people" Goddammit Linus! XD

Been using this for about three months. I was apprehensive at first, but it works perfectly well on my 9700K.

As a nuclear engineer, particularly a thermal hydraulic phd student I know these units like the back of my hand. So when the mechanical engineer was like "I dont really know" I cringed...

I use these on homemade COB Led lights. Good stuff.

we had some of those thermal pads in the 90's everyone said they didn't work all that well, glad they finally made some that actually work.

you two are awesome to watch
Linus keep challenging Alex if fun to watch you two

8:20 Sigh. Linus demonstrating his lack of scientific understanding yet again. I think what he’s thinking of here is GRAPHENE. That’s the carbon tech that has everyone excited (if anyone can figure out how to actually make it), GRAPHITE (This stuff) has been around for DECADES, as it is basically the same stuff you get in a standard pencil. It’s a good idea to put it into a pad for CPU applications don’t get me wrong, but it has nothing to do with carbon-related hype.

I'm using two of these; one for each of my two main systems.
I've got a 40 mm pad on my Ryzen gaming setup, and a 30 mm on my 6 yo tower on an MSI 890FXA-GD70 mobo and an AMD AM3+ 6 core CPU and 16 GB of high-speed RAM, with a 1 TB SSD for the boot drive, 600 W power supply (to be upgraded to 1200 W soon), and an EVGA GeForce GT 1030 SC 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile Graphic Card (soon to be upgraded to an ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 560 16CU 4GB Gaming GDDR5 DP HDMI DVI AMD Graphics Card), in a huge Thermaltake Xaser XI case.
So far, both machines run cool and sweet. My huge tower runs between 16 & 20 degrees C, and the smaller system runs around 40 degrees C. Both well within tolerable specs.
I'll never go back to paste again.

The size of that cooler is great need to do a water cooler.

7:58 diarrhea?

I'm a bit late to this video, but this isn't new tech, and the price for that little square of graphite foil (known as grafoil in some industries) is ridiculous.
For $15 USD, you can get a 3x3 ft square of this stuff.
Its absurd that they are charging $12 for a 40x40mm piece of this stuff.

2:41, dat money shot

I want to see you try a little gallium and one of those graphite pads together.

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4:40 this thermal pad really wanna make a short

It seems to me in the future it would make sense to just have this carbon film built onto the CPU and not be a consumer item at all and just eliminate the need of thermal paste or applying this thing.

Last May, I bought this and used it in an old iMac right after I saw this video. It works great. Easily trimmed to fit over the CPU and GPU and memory. No mess and improved its performance.

you used 30mmX30mm and it didn't cover the whole metal plate
for better results try using the bigger version 40mmX40mm and upload it

Its like saying the oil in your car now comes in a cube that's all you ever need

"Just for the sake of transparency" [Jump Cut]

hypothetically speaking can this thermal pad be used on the APU for the PS4 or Xbox one?

I believe it's Celsius, not Celcius ;)

8:45 "It just works"

W/mk is Thermal Conductivity

My very first custom built gaming pc is currently using this and so far it has never peaked over 71. 3 months in and still solid :D

you are decreasing the heathflow area thru which the heat can be transfered to the cooler.
the pad is smaller then the cpu but the cooler and cpu are the same size.
this really lowers the heatflow compared to normal heatpaste.

'why did we even employ these ppl?'
Linus didnt know what that... phrase was.

This just seems to be another one of those “that’s what she said” episodes of Linus...

I have bought one but require another one for my new Thread Ripper build. I might even add it to the GPUs.

So Intel's internal CPU past is apparently poor like 20'C poor, however they claim it's longer lasting that's why they use it.. so what if you were to delid and use this under the CPU hood.. wouldn't you get what Intel claim life long product with 20 deg cooler?

I have to wonder if it would have done even better if it was sized fully.

What will happen if i dont use thermal paste in a new cpu ?

@Linus try using both , thermal paste AND the pad AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Use both

Well then. Other than higher risk of frying the motherboard if I drop it, its quite neat. I may give this a try on my next system.

They should sell a large version that you could "cut to size".

Should I buy this or just go with regular thermal paste?

THE BLONDE GUY IS ADORABLE!!!

why don't CPUs come with this already mounted? Manufactures should consider doing that.

The coolest thing about it is that it cools everything down.

How did this douche ever succeed on youtube, He was definitely the kid who played with his lego's and read fantasy books while drinking his chocolate milk out of a twirly straw at lunch time

I will be geting a Intel Core i3-8100 witch haves Thermal Paste on it. Do you think that whould be enough?

Hi Linus, thank you so much for bringing attention to this product. I have a 2011 17" macbook Pro and this machine overheats all the time. Using the best thermal paste cpu cores stays at 80C, now with the thermal pads the average temperature dropped to 70C... This is a huge gain...no more fan noise. I am a programmer so I can't say how those pads would help with gaming but for normal use they are pretty good. Have a great year!!! cheers

clickbait! its actually the last thermal COMPOUND you will ever need. Its not thermal paste

Know what conducts heat better than any thermal compound? Perfectly lapped and mated surfaces conduct better than putting something in between them but they have to be pretty perfect. It's possible I know that on steam locomotives they connected pipes with no gaskets for high pressure steam just because the faces of the connections were so flat and perfect.

Try multiple pads and see if it makes a difference

Combine the thermal pastw with that

so delid and use this on both sides?

7:58 Linus "die area..." pauses to check if anyone else got the joke... :P

Hi
I tried this one and it's amazing the temperature dropped about 20 degrees in both Gpu and Cpu , but when I run a stress test, my laptop not pass don't know why , I tried to repaste it twice same result ,then I returned to thermal paste( thermal grizzly) and things work fine but I lost the advantage of this pad (20 degrees cooler), my laptop is Alienware 15 R3.