Summary
One should not expect miracles from (however expensive) pastes, but a significant improvement over the normal average. Nevertheless, in the end, it is often less important what you pay for a paste and what the manufacturer gives full-bodied for a theoretical heat conductivity. You get very good pastes even for acceptable prices and often enough decides in the end the right application alone about the failure or failure of the thermal paste exchange. So you can also be shipwrecked with expensive products if you make serious mistakes.
Some pastes have been real long-distance runners for years and are also extremely inexpensive. So it makes little sense to invest huge sums if you could live the same way with 1-2 Kelvin temperature difference. Because one thing is also certain: systems in which such a small temperature difference already decides the life and death of a component are neither suitable for everyday use nor designed for use.
Anyone who has given sufficient thought to the installation of your PC and a sensible ventilation in the housing concept is hardly dependent on supposed high-tech climax. For extreme overclockers, this may look a little different, and even silent freaks who fight for any possible speed reduction of the fans are the ideal target group for such thermal pastes. The normal consumer, on the other hand, should pay more attention to user-friendliness and use as liquid pastes as possible, because by errors during application one almost always loses more than one gains (perhaps) through extremely expensive products.
But even when it is improved to graphics cards, very own rules apply! This naturally concerns, of course, the optimised and better screwing of all relevant parts during a conversion and, on the other hand, the use of better thermal paste and improved application, which would not be possible in mass production in this form. .
If you are aiming for a graphics card conversion, in many cases you will not be able to avoid including an existing backplate in the cooling concept – it is almost always worth it. In addition, the fan curves must also be questioned and, if necessary, adapted to the new temperatures. However, this adjustment only makes sense after the backplate has been included, as the cooling of the components such as the memory after the conversion is much better from the house. So it can really be worthwhile if you not only just change the thermal paste, but also think about suitable pads. If so, then we should include all aspects, as we do, but this is guaranteed to pay off!
Conclusion
In any case, it is advisable to study the best pastes in detail beforehand, because we can only give a recommendation from our own experience and the current measurements. There can and will be better products, because you can't measure and select everything in the end. In addition, of course, the market is constantly on the move.
At this point, we also thank Caseking, among others, who have constantly and continuously refilled our tube box over the years, as well as some manufacturers, who have often even sent us unsolicited samples. No, nothing really matters, even if it takes some time before we refresh this topic for next summer. Because it's always the moment.
- 1 - Einführung und Übersicht
- 2 - Grundlagen: Heatspreader und Heatsink
- 3 - Wärmeleitpaste: Funktion und richtiges Auftragen
- 4 - Sonderfall Grafikkarte
- 5 - Sonderfall Wärmeitpads und mögliche Verbesserungen
- 6 - Flüssigmetall und die Grenzen
- 7 - Testsetup und Messmethoden
- 8 - Testergebnisse: Wasserkühlung
- 9 - Testergebisse: Lüftkühlung (großer Turmkühler)
- 10 - Testergebisse: Lüftkühlung (Boxed-Kühler)
- 11 - Testergebisse: Grafikkarten-Kühlung (GPU)
- 12 - Testergebnisse: Viskosität
- 13 - Testergebnisse: Verarbeitung und Anwendungssicherheit
- 14 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit
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