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From Hero to Zero: Thermal Hero Ultra and Thermal Hero Quantum – Pump-out, degradation and missing documents

Today’s article is based on various investigations in which I came across Thermal Hero products by chance. After more than 60 products, both the Thermal Hero Ultra and the much more expensive Quantum have remained in my memory as negative examples of how cheap products, which were only designed for the brief benchmark moment, can be brought [...]


FRACTAL DESIGN Era 2 Mini-ITX Case Review – From blast furnace to elegant mini fridge with targeted optimizations?

Admittedly, the headline is a bit sensationalist. But compared to the total thermal failure of the first Era generation, things could only get better. Read on to find out how Fractal Design has transformed the Era 2 into a really good ITX case. With the first Era, Fractal made the fatal mistake of concentrating exclusively on the design of the [...]


Noctua NT-H2 Thermal Compound Investigation: Re-Test of Pastes from 2023 and 2024 – Series Dispersion or one-time Slip-up?

I had recently tested a current and originally packaged Noctua NT-H2 tube, which was purchased anonymously for me by the community and also rated in an article. This paste performed rather mediocre in the test. Due to many requests, the desired follow-up test is now available with an original paste from 2023 (thanks for sending it!) and two other [...]


AMD launches its Fluid Motion Frames 2 for the Ryzen AI 300 processors

The Ryzen AI 300 processors were launched on the market some time ago. AMD also recently introduced the new Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2) technology, which is intended to offer a number of improvements and take the user experience to a new level. This technology will now also be usable with the Ryzen AI 300 processors. AMD plans to test the [...]


Industrial thermal paste gone astray: Parker THERM-A-GAP GEL 60HF Review and what could happen if you don’t know the background

Today we are talking about Parker THERM-A-GAP GEL 60HF, which is also available as Parker THERM-A-GAP GEL 75HF, whereby the name says it all, because the bulk thermal conductivity is specified as 6.2 W/m-K or even 7.5 W/m-K. Since we know that very good pastes are actually around 5 to 6 if they are to be performant, durable AND easy to work with [...]


AMD Trinity: 60 CUs, fast GDDR6 and AI upscaling for the PS5 Pro

AMD has developed a new system-on-chip (SoC) for Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro, as reported on blog.playstation.com, which brings a number of changes to the existing model. One focus is on the integration of 60 compute units (CUs) based on the RDNA 4 architecture. These represent an increase on the 36 CUs of the current PlayStation 5 model. In [...]


Test equipment for material tests on thermally conductive pastes: microscopy and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)

I have already written in detail about the determination of thermal resistance and thermal conductivity, but of course I also have to explain the second part of the measurements transparently, because I am not doing these measurements for their own sake, but for a good reason. The microscopy, material testing and measurement of the pastes and pads [...]