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@Falkentyne
Going to side with Sneeky here. You're a relative unknown in this forum and you came in making statements without offering any merit and in direct contradiction to experiences most people here have had. If you want people to take you seriously, you have to offer something with merit for them to reference.

We welcome information and experience users have to offer, but you need to be able to offer examples to what you're stating. Pictures & screenshots always work. Just showing your testing methodology is helpful.
 
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@Falkentyne
Going to side with Sneeky here. You're a relative unknown in this forum and you came in making statements without offering any merit and in direct contradiction to experiences most people here have had. If you want people to take you seriously, you have to offer something with merit for them to reference.

We welcome information and experience users have to offer, but you need to be able to offer examples to what you're stating. Pictures & screenshots always work. Just showing your testing methodology is helpful.

I've written a number of guides for shunt mods and repasting on video cards. What pictures do you want ? I'm not going to take apart my card just for you people. No offense. I'm not paid for my work. And unlike most of you, I do NOT have money to throw around when I've been on the street and homeless half my life and am STILL IN trouble and fighting a painful disability that is slowly killing me.

P.S I've been on this forum longer than you. I just don't post here very much. I just read.

Feel free to search my previous posts on overclock.net and reddit.
If you guys don't like or appreciate my work, just ban me. I'll take my services elsewhere because there are plenty of people that appreciate my hard work.
I am NOT rich. I am NOT like most of you people who have cars, jobs, husbands, wives, luxurious houses with central AC and so on. And I am not here to make friends. I post my findings. Accept them or leave them, it's entirely up to you.

Have a nice day.
 

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I've written a number of guides for shunt mods and repasting on video cards. What pictures do you want ? I'm not going to take apart my card just for you people. No offense. I'm not paid for my work. And unlike most of you, I do NOT have money to throw around when I've been on the street and homeless half my life and am STILL IN trouble and fighting a painful disability that is slowly killing me.

P.S I've been on this forum longer than you. I just don't post here very much. I just read.

Feel free to search my previous posts on overclock.net and reddit.
If you guys don't like or appreciate my work, just ban me. I'll take my services elsewhere because there are plenty of people that appreciate my hard work.
I am NOT rich. I am NOT like most of you people who have cars, jobs, husbands, wives, luxurious houses with central AC and so on. And I am not here to make friends. I post my findings. Accept them or leave them, it's entirely up to you.

Have a nice day.
Cut the hostility and stop making assumptions about people, i'm a disabled single dad here myself, looking after my even more disabled dad.
All thats been asked is for you to back up your claims, you dont have a reputation here for people to blindly trust what you say.
 
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Cut the hostility and stop making assumptions about people, i'm a disabled single dad here myself, looking after my even more disabled dad.
All thats been asked is for you to back up your claims, you dont have a reputation here for people to blindly trust what you say.
He is Falkentyne. He collaborated with Benq on their fps monitor.

PS: I inquired before that we should have a hardware section for monitors in TPU. I repeat my petition.
 
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@Falkentyne
Going to side with Sneeky here. You're a relative unknown in this forum and you came in making statements without offering any merit and in direct contradiction to experiences most people here have had. If you want people to take you seriously, you have to offer something with merit for them to reference.

We welcome information and experience users have to offer, but you need to be able to offer examples to what you're stating. Pictures & screenshots always work. Just showing your testing methodology is helpful.

He is active in a lot of forums, I have seen him writing about thermal paste in several forums with high background about this stuff, he tested a lot. If he is unknown to you it's obvious you are a newbie. This is a forum and not review page, he basically is sharing his experience. If you are not fine with his findings from someone, just ignore it and move on.
 
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Ive got a novel idea. How about we stop trying to insult each other like a group of poorly behaved 1st graders and get back on topic. Which was, oh my goodness would you look at the thread title! Not thermal paste in general. Not my personal findings with gobledegoop on notebooks. Or high pressure pump out or... Nope, not any of these off topic things more appropriately added to a NEW thermal paste thread but wooooow its been so long we forgot what the thread was originally about MX-5.
 

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He was the first one to agree with me that TFX is awesome :D

I've seem him around for years. He seems like a nice guy to me.
 
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He was the first one to agree with me that TFX is awesome :D

I've seem him around for years. He seems like a nice guy to me.

But definitely not rich. :p
 

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We seem to make such a big deal about thermal conductivity but leave out the wet-ability and its effect on temperature drop.
 
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If he is unknown to you it's obvious you are a newbie.
That statement coming from a user who has posted all of 19 comments on TPU in 9 years is not very meaningful. Nor does it carry much merit. And as someone else mentioned....
Ive got a novel idea. How about we stop trying to insult each other like a group of poorly behaved 1st graders and get back on topic.
... this.

On that note, the tube of MX-5 that I ordered is already gone(used up in the shop). I'm going to order another tube to do some more in depth testing. While I think the claims made about it's "drippiness" are silly and unfounded, the scientist part of me wonders about it.
 
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@Falkentyne
Going to side with Sneeky here. You're a relative unknown in this forum and you came in making statements without offering any merit and in direct contradiction to experiences most people here have had. If you want people to take you seriously, you have to offer something with merit for them to reference.

We welcome information and experience users have to offer, but you need to be able to offer examples to what you're stating. Pictures & screenshots always work. Just showing your testing methodology is helpful.
Hi,
Barking up the wrong tree bud he does not post screen shots or images of disassembled hardware he says he has or sub benchmarks either
Like most people this is a automatic why not seeing cellphones are well past mainstream and have better cameras than most people have lol
Only image I've ever seen him post was plagiarized from someone else and was really just a troll response to ridicule someone that he didn't like the question they asked.
 
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Are their any actual tests in this forum
 
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I'm like a broken record...

Can you include (for a baseline)

* Vaseline
* Diaper cream (Maximum strength: 40% Zinc oxide)

all very cheap.
 
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My old American Airlines coffee stir stick works so well spreading the paste like the McDonald's plastic stir stick.

if that is a real picture of you, your mustache is glorious beyond measure. lol

i have the MX5 now since two weeks on a 10900K (5.1 GHz, 4.8 GHz Cache at 1.4V (1.32V under load)
it did not deteriorate so far compared to MX4 which turns into soup after around 8-10 days on that CPU.

I got a EVGA 280mm AIO upgrade coming in mail tomorrow, was on sale half price direct from EVGA. $55 shipped. insane good deal. So I will be trying out my MX-5 soon. no comparison tests still, but regardless I don't want to use the stock paste. hoping to see at least 5-10 celsius improvement across the board going from my current air cooler to water. so that's all I'm looking for right now. I hope it works out.
 
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I'm like a broken record...
No worries. I know how you feel sometimes..

Can you include (for a baseline)
Let's look at this list...

* Vaseline
No. Don't have any, not gonna buy any, don't want to try anyway. Just sounds silly. I'm not willing to do that to one of my personal systems.

* Diaper cream (40% Zinc oxide)
No. Again, I'm not willing to do that to one of my personal systems.

Actually, I have something very similar which I use for PC's I work on. That is the TIM I'll use as a baseline.

I'm also going to use the automotive copper grease that I was testing on one of my Dell system for nearly a year.. For giggles..
 
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Looking forward to the results, especially the copper anti-seize grease.
 

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if that is a real picture of you, your mustache is glorious beyond measure. lol



I got a EVGA 280mm AIO upgrade coming in mail tomorrow, was on sale half price direct from EVGA. $55 shipped. insane good deal. So I will be trying out my MX-5 soon. no comparison tests still, but regardless I don't want to use the stock paste. hoping to see at least 5-10 celsius improvement across the board going from my current air cooler to water. so that's all I'm looking for right now. I hope it works out.
A couple of years ago. Covid and masks and shit. It was a pain in the ass

Looking forward to the results, especially the copper anti-seize grease.
That's good stuff for bolt and nut threads.
 
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I wouldn't suggest copper anti-seize as a thermal compound as it becomes runny at high temps compared to it's state at room temps.
 
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I got a EVGA 280mm AIO upgrade coming in mail tomorrow, was on sale half price direct from EVGA. $55 shipped. insane good deal. So I will be trying out my MX-5 soon. no comparison tests still, but regardless I don't want to use the stock paste. hoping to see at least 5-10 celsius improvement across the board going from my current air cooler to water. so that's all I'm looking for right now. I hope it works out.
MX5 is pretty much identical to NT-H2 since i replaced it with the MX5

Just use a little bit more paste than usual because the paste spreads very little compared to others.
 
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I wouldn't suggest copper anti-seize as a thermal compound as it becomes runny at high temps compared to it's state at room temps.

Depends on the manufacturer, the type of anti-seize, the quality. Some might but generally it's impossible to make a blanket statement for anti-seize/grease products because there's so many variants. For example some anti-seize products use MoS2 as the friction-reducing component, but MoS2 is a thermal insulator not a conductor. So they both might function great as an anti-seize but they're quite different when evaluating their other properties.

@lexluthermiester and I have tested copper anti-seize as a TIM but I didn't have the same luck he did. I tried three brands and none of them worked. I'm sure that some of them work as a TIM but it's so hit-and-miss because thermal conductivity isn't a core priority for anti-seize products. But that's the risk of using products outside of their intended conditions of use.
 

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just posted today it looks like. looks neat and on topic lol

looks like the original kryonaut (non-extreme) is the best value overall. $10... and much better than MX-5 when on air cooler... with the AMD chip... with Intel the difference is much less... very odd...

and non-conductive. hmm.

anyone want to buy my big tube of mx-5 for like 8 bucks free ship? lol
 
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