A Game Changer? | Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut Review
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2019
- Thermal paste solutions are messy, inconsistent, and impermanent. They'll need replacing every 1-3 years in most cases, assuming you're concerned about rising CPU temps. But what if I told you Thermal Grizzly invented a reusable, permanent solution for TIM?
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Using it to standardize cooler testing is brilliant.
Is it tried and tested true?
@@stevethea5250 its new
@@marc_frank when would it be old tech
@@stevethea5250 ? in a year
@@marc_frank well this stuff was exposed 11 months ago so now I have to wait an extra year? :/
Meanwhile the verge: It's actully good uhh practise to add a few more pads on the thingy.
*Bunches some under the CPU*
@@lutyanoalves444 now this won't be enough so to help it all stay in place and help transfer heat we are going to ice it with a healthy amount of thermal paste. *empties a whole tube of thermal paste onto the pads*
But we need something more solid to keep it together so you don't have to put too much pressure on the cooler. *Adds superglue*
The one dislike is from grace computers
Now 8 meaning they got the cronies to assist.
@@T5646766 😂😂😂
lol I hope this becomes a thing now cause its hilarious
Wow... 25 dislikes (and counting)... looks like they're paying people to 👎 this video now 😏
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...or, he's sitting at home in his moms basement furiously making multiple You Tube accounts 😂
That’s hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Looks like a great solution for noob PC builders. Can't really mess it up like adding too much or too little thermal paste. I am really impressed by the thermal conductivity performance, basically on par with a good thermal paste.
i would assume it would benefit Laptops and consoles more ... i mean laptops suffer more of high temps a with the already crappy factory applied thermal paste .
actually its long life would prove it to be a pro product choice. No annual rebuilding to replace old dry paste. less maintenance = more gaming and less worry.
also you can mess up the application as its conductive. its certainly not something you want a nervous yet overly exited noob to be handling.
@@thehumangerm The reason I want it is so i don't have to find a tube of thermal paste when i want to do anything with my PC. Can just re-use what's already there.
@@amineabdz biggest trouble with laptops and needing the thick paste is the amount of flexing and moving around they have to endure wtih less then perfect flat surfaces for thinner pastes =pump out . I can see this working quite well in laptops for that reason and might even pick one up my self, as once you remove the thick paste on a laptop if you replace it with anything in the thin area it will get pumped out unless you win the cooler lottery on the laptop
thehumangerm what do you use to paint it?
Ugh, a long line from top to bottom, what a terrible application, worst I have seen yet, MY preferred method is to apply it by mouth, only way, I get the best performance, best temps.
@@GruntBurger Lmaooooo I laughed way too hard at that
I feel you. When I run low on mouthwash I don't break a sweat. I just grab my trusty tube of arctic silver! Mmmm tastes great!
Ah the Mother 🐦 technique.
What about just circle blob in middle of it?
@@stevethea5250 You may be able to circle the center of the IHS with your tongue like it was Bill Gates' nipple, but some of us are not that dexterous during the tongue application process. Best to keep it simple.
In the future, a direct comparison with the IC graphite thermal pad would be great, and a proper sized pad from thermal grizzly lol.
I second that. I have been using the IC Graphite thermal pad for a while now with excellent results. Interested to see if an upgrade is in my future .
Wondering this as well
Dragonspawn666 what future you mean?
@@stevethea5250 his future, lel
Isn't the max temp high on the results?
The idle looks beautiful, but I'm too noob to be able to figure what the highs would be. Can y'all help me?
My grandson one day will be talking to his friends and saying " My grandpa used to use this thing called 'thermal paste' and they had to spread it around, EWWW" LOL
and you'll be all "Listen here you little shit, only the ametuers used to spread it, the pros used mounting pressure"
Love the idea of using it on all your test benches. Equal playing field.
Probably works way better if you don't touch it with your hands or get it dirty at all. so it's just the carbon directly contacting the CPU no grease and other debris
@Nuno Herdeiro Or just wear gloves
Turn a page. Wash your hands. Turn a page. Wash your hands...
seaners24 use a metal tweezer
@@stevethea5250 YES,.... YOU!
@@Seanidor YES,... YOU!!
So unless you’re exotic cooling and extreme overclocking it’s good enough and a one time purchase, no complaints.
Der Bauer made this with ln2 in mind as well, since a pad can't crack.
VoxelFusion What’s in2
@@stevethea5250 It's what pc overclockers call Liquid Nitrogen. The 2 comes from chemistry, denoting that the Nitrogen is in a covalent bond with a second Nitrogen atom.
VoxelFusion wow how and who debater
Color me impressed! Love that there's an option like this out there. I probably won't be using it in my build for a while, but good to know it's an option.
Thanks for the video.
One long line of paste, god dam it dude, you need to do a fine drawing of the Mona Lisa for optimal temps.
Crap, I've been doing "starry night"
No wonder my temps are rising.
Thanks for the advice!
@@billnye198 Have you tried an animated flip book story of thermal paste? That always works the best for me
Awesome Video Greg, have a nice weekend mate.
Ayy
Thanks man! Always good to see ya here.
maybe one day the IHS of CPU's will come with this tech built-in/ pre-installed
pricing and supply chain has to work out, but I can see it working. Greg or someone like Steve at GN should test that, come to think of it.
No. The best are soldered IHS. Pads can’t touch thermal paste either.
@@Cerus98 considering how bad intel's TIM is... this might actually be an upgrade, though of course solder beats it by a large margin.
If anything it makes more sense to have these preinstalled on the cooler.
Cyberdyne - Many good CPU coolers have preapplied paste. My Kraken did. Since there’s not much actual difference between brands of paste it works just fine.
This looks like such a massive improvement for me over thermal paste for my uses.. I always screw paste up, definitely will be using this the next time I need to replace my thermal paste to spare myself some headache.
Great informative video! Keep up the fantastic work!!
If anything that will be useful for eliminating the thermal compound as a variable during tests.
What about for gaming?
Steve Thea obviously it’d be like your typical mid range thermal compound for gaming. if the cost isn’t too high compared to other thermal pastes it’d be pretty decent for all use cases
@@oldcracker3383 yes it's just $3 more than AS5 in Australia
can the pad be soaked with liquid metal? :-)
i really like your currnent intro! fast and kinda enthusiastic :)
wow, you are SO gentle with it -I'm impressed!
I am definitely in the ‘piece of mind’ camp. I love building and tweaking computers, but I’m not after the highest frame rates or lowest temperatures (I’m more of a budget guy), so these sound great. I can tweak and rebuild and not have to worry about the paste.
I'd like to see what this would do on a Radeon VII replacing the graphite pad.
I think the Radeon VII dies are too uneven for it to work well. Gamers Nexus made an excellent video about it and tested mounting pressure with pressure paper. So they basically used a thick graphite pad, so that they get contact on the whole GPU.
Alexander Daum where do you see die?
@@stevethea5250 In the radeon VII video of Gamers Nexus.
Been using this for a year now. works amazingly and no mess.
Great review, quite interesting. Reminds me of another thermal pad a few years ago that wasn't so good.
"breaks easily" ... and there yo are shaking it throughout the video without any problems :D
What I love the most is how many benchmarks you see with AMD now. Couple years ago AMD was hardly ever used for anything in videos.
Amd Ryzen rocks. Just came over from the Intel dark side with my new Itx build. So far so good. Sick speeds and great performance.
Yeah I know lol I plan to build 2 pc's
1 with INTEL cpu
1 with AMD cpu
(both GPU'S Will be LEASED so as not to waste money lol)
This is great. I will definitely be testing this out for myself.
Just wanted to say that i love your vids. Keep it up!
With this stuff I expect traditional thermal paste to become a purely enthusiast product; this stuff is so good at the low end, and only a bit more expensive, it would make the amateur builder's day so much easier. Applying thermal paste was almost always the most stressful part of the build process, and now that doesn't have to happen any more!
So how about comparing it to the graphite thermal pads?
Yes plz tell me
It's the same thing
You had so much fun with that little thermal pad all throughout the video, just flinging it around.
The Innovation Cooling product seems to work just as well. Used it on my R7 1700, and it stays even cooler than the stock Heatsink with OEM paste.
Epic, a great solution for replacing thermal pads on the ps4 pro and xbox one X.
Has anyone ever tried gold leaf as a thermal interface?
Its _seems_ like that would work quite well.
actually Gold is a worse heat thief than Copper ...i know, it`s strange isn`t it ? best thermal conductive material is Diamond (and his brother carbon nanotubes : same carbon atoms sic ) followed by Silver than Copper
Cool! I've used the IC graphite thermal pad for a time for testing systems and components. Being a pyrolytic graphite solution, it works great, especially under high mounting pressure. Unfortunately, I found it tearing over time, so I went back to paste. Definitely gonna try Carbonaut out once I can order them locally. Even though Germany is just 20KM away from me, they charge a fortune to ship it across the border
I like the mess-free factor. I may have to try this out on a future build.
I've only used Arctic so it's good to see what else is on the market and whether it's worth switching over 👍
Arctic sliver has always treated me right.
Is this pad worth it?
Nice vid. I have questions though:
I saw you were handling it with your bare hands, won't the oils from your fingers effect performance? Not to mention dirt and grime on the pad effecting how well (flat) it would interface?
How do you know it's easy to tear? Did it tear because you were flopping it around throughout the recording of this video?
I have the same questions
Ditto
Question of the day goes too....
This came in handy for updating bios on my motherboard while swapping cpus.
It's now the year 2020 , We all need a recap of how it's holding up over time .
The only risk I see with this is that it could collect dirt, debris or even hair (seen at 10:28) which could hamper performance. Still, its very innovative!
Thermal compound doesn't lack this possibility either.
It's just this thing has the possibility of existing outside of a PC build because it's a solid object that's easily manageable.
I'm a little confused? Thermal pads or thermal paste can collect dirt, debris or even hair under a CPU cooler? Can you explain how?
@@carolusrex8293 He means because it is a pad that will obviously get handled more (touched, moved around, set on something, etc.) compared to squirting paste onto a die right before placing the heat sink, it is far far more susceptible to getting 'shit' on it.
The Kriptoker where hair?
Well he is flopping it around everywhere, touching it and placing it on tables, so thats quite obvious, if you transfer it correctly you should have any problems, also using some kind of tweezers instead of your hands could help with keeping it clean too
This is very exciting stuff. Taking the CPU cooler off is my least favourite part of any rebuild. Haaaate having to redo the paste.
So getting this on my next build!
Great video, it would be cool too see a base line test for no thermal paste at all :) i love this pad ideas.
I wonder how it will hold up over time while repeatedly being moved from system to system for testing. All that touching it with your fingers will transfer some oil to it and that will build up with dirt and dust sticking to the oil and I imaging that might degrade performance over time. Still far more reusable than thermal paste, but maybe something to keep in mind if you plan to use this to standardize tim application for thermal testing.
Just use gloves. Everyone should be using gloves anyway for handling internal components.
CARBON NANO-TUBES
My asian friend used to go on rants about carbon nano tubes and how sick they are lol, it is nice to see it has become a cost effective solution
NANOMACHINES, SON
@@voxelfusion9894 Nanomachines? that term is so yesterday... NANITES BRUH
NANO-TUBES, SON!
This is insane. I'm really excited to grab this for my systems.
Have you tried this on your console?
If the price is right I will definitely look at stocking up on a few of these! I hate cleaning off thermal paste and applying cpu coolers as a result of the paste, the mess, the stickiness and the application process... Plus it saves on buying alcohol wipes or isopropyl alcohol!!! 🙌
greg, test it in a custom water loop.
have liquid metal on my intel cpus. damn it was hairy though. left a log in my pants putting that on my 8086k & 8700k. for general use mx4 is a great paste i use often due to its price. these are an option as the amount of times i am changing coolers or cpus it would help me a lot
liquid metal is .01% better than safely lapping the ihs and heatsink with quality as5.
@@markm0000 AS5 sure is quality but there's much better options on the market now. I recently did my final application of AS5 after over 15 years of trouble-free performance :D
@makaroner ? It's a real cpu.
@@thehumangerm My pc is running liquid metal for a year now without replacing. It doesn't degrade or set.
H31MU7 what is AS5 what do you use now?
I love this concept - I will definitely use it in the future myself 👌
Great solution for a test bench system. Gonna have to grab myself some.
It's only available in Germany sadly, and it's expensive as f
Wouldn't performance degrade after a while with handling? Getting finger oils on it etc.
Is it washable? Maybe not as it’s carbon
Video suggestion: IC Graphite vs Carbonaut showdown
please do more tests with it! i would love to see by how much the gap is going to increase with a more powerful CPU and a bigger cooler
I used this product when testing out different CPUs in my rig. It works well and only noticed about a 2 degree rise in the temperature. One thing to watch out for tho is that it tends to slide around and get off centered when installing the cooler
Carbonaut+ Artic Silver 5, let the tests begin!
The carbon nano tubes are the reason for the conductivity thermal paste would clog it and create a big blob of nothing but heat problems.
Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut VS Innovation Cooling Graphite. which one would win?
carbonaut won by 3 degrees
I was on the fence until you related it to tucking your cpu in for bedtime. now I feel much better about the whole thing for some reason
Damn that's cool. Imagine that on some gpus as a replacement to the thermal pads they already have (unless conductivity is a bad the places they're usually placed on). Incredible.
can you please review noctuas NEW thermal paste??? its supposedly... BETTER.. than IC Diamond.
did they just put out a new paste recently? at the end of the day most pastes are like margin of error of each other for a standard desktop application. if you add things like laptops things can change as pump out is a issue on there coolers www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-comparison,5108-8.html
Wow, this is really great!
This is like giving yourself 30 to 60 extra minutes per day, by getting work done quicker if you work building PCs.
Adding extra minutes to your day, that sounds like night and day!
Is it possible to learn this power?
@@adamiscoolization
YES! It's called increased productivity.
Ask Taran from LTT.
Ill give it a shot since I use kryonaut on my 8700k@5.0. I have to remove everything to properly dust every 2 months so this could come in handy.
This is an awsome idea. Now we just wait to see if they design one for high end oc rigs
I use listerine cool strips... keeps my CPU fresh!
Minty cool.
I'm cringing as you're touching the pad so much- seems like thats not a good idea but idk.
Same. I keep thinking about how the oils in his skin are seeping into the pad and possibly altering its properties.
didnt use the same pad on the puter, had one just for flippy floppying around to show people..what I was thinking.
Just because of how persnickety I am, I tend to refresh the thermal paste in my systems roughly every two years. I'll heavily consider investing in these pads.
As usual, great video.
Zachary S persnickety, I like that word. You get a like.
This is interesting, I'll definitely consider this for my next build. I don't see why they won't improve on this in the future so maybe when the "next gen" carbon pads come out I'll get them
These have been around for awhile, just not specifically for PCs
Also shouldn't you wear gloves. How will your skins oil effect the pad's performance over time.
You tell me
I understand wanting to give AMD some love, but why would you use an Intel pad on an AMD CPU when you most likely have an Intel you could use?
Not to mention something like the 8700k runs much hotter and would be more informative as to performance under load
True
Wow thats really cool! Ill probably be using this from now on instead of thermal paste because I won't have to worry about messing up and its much more convenient. Plus its performes the same so thats a steal!
Good video. Have you done the same thing with "Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad"? It would be good to see a video comparing the different thermal pads now available.
George
I use thermal paste on my thermal paste. Thanks for the tips verge.
Does fingerprint grease negatively affect it at all? Will its performance degrade with multiple handling?
Really cool stuff!
The way you shake that thermal pad around is mesmerizing!!! Lol!
Watching you handle that pad for that long made me cringe. Is there any chance of finger oils or micro-tears from that kind of handling, and if so, what actual degradation or performance change could you see?
Does it cost more or less?
I tried melting carbon...wasn't preety m8. Some volcanoes may or may have not been involved.
You have to take the pad to mordor
It will burn pretty nicely though.
I'd love to see a head to head with the other carbon pad solutions.
Thanks for gracing us with this video.
Had some waste of human life hadn't sued you, I wouldn't even know who you are. What I'm saying is, I'm glad you got sued...
LOL
Now that’s a silver lining 😂
@@GregSalazar I'm sure you'll get quite a few subs out of it. I can't have been the only one.
I am also a new subscriber because they got sued
Me too, subb'd because they got sued :P
But does it come with RGB?
This is a game changer in my mind. That's really cool tech.
Looks great, just ordered some for my new build. Different supplier though :( at least I can easily change them with the different brands/versions !! Thanks PS sharing this vid with coworkers
So he makes a big thing about how 'Intel gets all the love' when it comes to testing so he's using an AMD build to even out and better represent the market but then discovers that the thermal pad he's testing is designed for Intel, that it's too small his AMD setup, and yet HE STILL USES THE AMD SETUP!... ... ...
He even openly acknowledges there will be a thermal difference... The whole point of these types of thermal pastes, liquid metals, pads, etc is about making relatively small, even minute gains against other compounds, and he's just throwing that out the window because he felt like using an AMD setup? On a channel called 'Science Studio?'
Pseudoscience Studio
I've always wanted to try liquid metal but I don't wanna take the risk
LM is only going to get you a degree on average over thermal paste.
On gpu LM lowered my temps for 10-11c
@@bain8686 wow
@@TheRealBleach Yeah,fans were silent :) Just make sure you protect everything else around gpu die with capton tape bcs LM is conductive
Does anyone know when they will sell it here in the us
great video , very helpful , thank you for making this video :)
Why would you specifically test it on an AMD cpu to "be different" if the pads you have are designed for Intel chips? I feel like that's not a very scientific approach.
Pad was for intel chip. Should've used Intel chip. Just sayin.
I would LOVE for this to be a good solution - I've never liked applying (and cleaning up) thermal paste.
Could you press this material between a thick plane of glass to see the spreadability when under tension?
Testing with the wrong size pad, what a total waste of time... 🤦♂️
Well it basically performed like the paste. Don't see the timewaste anywhere
@@NoPlanXD You need to go and have a good think about that before coming to any more bogus conclusions.
Tip: Air W/mK = 0.0262
So what are you suggesting? That the temps will drop by like 5 degrees because of the little space? When you already start with thermodynamics and heat transfer physics, then also you need to factor in, which part of the ihs will be heated the most :)
Why don’t you combine thermal paste with a thermal pad? 🤔
Because that's useless. Just makes performance worse
I’d love to see how the this pad compares to the innovation cooling thermal pad
I've been using Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pads with good results for a while, and they work great and can be reused. I'll be sure to give the Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut pads a try on my next build if I can find them.
The main claim of difference between there and the IC pads is these keep the tubes vertically aligned as opposed to horizontally on the IC.
Should have better conductive properties.
Greg does Science Studio know when these are available to buy in the US? Buying from Case King seems to incur shipping costs greater than the pad cost. There is the IC 40x40 option available right now on amazon, but it would be nice to buy the TG 38x38 solution with slightly better operating characteristics if possible. Any chance Science Studio can provide insight on US purchasing?
Nice. I was wondering how those pads performed. That's a much better solution for a test bench and makes troubleshooting easier and cleaner.
I used a graphite thermal pad in my brother's PC build and works pretty good.
Just a little added bit of knowledge showing how amazing carbon nanotube technology is, it is also used in body armor solutions!