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feels like every time I come in this room it's some crazy cooling experiment usually with you the aircon is good in here which is and that actually probably makes sense because this room isn't big enough for us to actually hold meetings in here anymore and because we're at it yet again this right here is a bizarre cooling product this is the icy graphite thermal pad the last thermal interface you will ever need they claim that this thermal pad performs as well as thermal taste it is extremely durable so it could last for decades and it's reusable let's investigate shall we after I tell you about private Internet access P ia is the VPN service that encrypt all of your Internet traffic and uses a safe protected IP and it's got lots of other useful features as well you can check it out at the link below oh well it conducts heat yeah really well especially in the XY alright so what the hell is this thing so that's totally graphite which I guess is carbon I don't know exactly what to say for that what exactly is this I have notes this is the innovation cooling graphite thermal pad the goal of it is to replace traditional thermal pastes in long term applications its main advantages are it's easy application there's no guessing how much to put on it's extremely long life and its high resistance to thermal changes which make it also good for extreme cooling scenarios where liquid metal or normal thermal paste might freeze so in a nutshell what they're saying is that this pad even though it will be so thick compared to a paste has no real disadvantage compared to spreading goop on your CPU well one disadvantage is that it is electrically conductive so one yeah like two ohms which is like better than a wire but if you just toss it on your motherboard it's gonna fry it so you do have to be more careful but unlike liquid metal it's not gonna seep out yeah it's not gonna just go everywhere you can get a pretty on there so would you just cut it to size if you had something that was yeah so the main spec on this is it's thermal conductivity 35 watts per meter Kelvin but I think probably most people wouldn't have a ton of context for what that means so compared to like I see diamond that's really high so this is like 4 and 1/2 watts per meter Kelvin so it should be able to conduct a lot of heat through it but what is a watt per meter Kelvin you don't know exactly do you know why do I even employ these people I'm looking it up right now unfortunately there are differing definitions for these terms okay so quantity of heat that passes in a unit time through a plate of particular area or thickness when opposite phases different temperature by one Kelvin so that means that if there's one Kelvin difference between the two you can conduct 35 watts per meter so it actually makes a lot of sense when you think of it like that cool let's try it this is trippy man like cleaning all of the paste off and having it just like dry mounted like there are things in life that feel natural to mount dry and there are things and there are things that don't uh-huh so an advantage to this dry approach is that there's no liquid like you know most thermal compounds are some kind of a suspension of some sort so there's no liquid to eventually evaporate or dry out or mush out or anything like that it's just that's just it you just plunk it on there this is crazy just for the sake of you no transparency no thermal paste it's double screw on the draw you finished first now I feel awkward okay it's trippy like it seems like it it's not right you know we're looking at this is a 79 80 XE with liquid metal in it okay so we're looking at an average temperature across all cores of 50 point five six and that was with IC diamond yeah so IC diamond might not be the highest performance thermal compound but it's very respectable they're all within what like two degrees of each other at the high end yeah I mean we'd had that bulk stuff that didn't perform particularly well that video is worth watching can check that out here nothing's immediately concerning no that looks very impressive yeah what did we get on IC diamond max 58 average 50 point five six like it should perform and everything that I've read one to two degrees worse but I mean that's part of the argument for a solution like this that there's no room for user error yeah like I might have done a bad core application or a bad mount so at the end of the day that's the conclusion of this video alex is a bad man we won't know for another 20 minutes or so or maybe five minutes I don't know all right so it's been hours an hour teen yeah yeah okay cool how do we do plus 50 plus what's the point of even having a fancy-ass calculator if it doesn't get it right well it's not the calculators fault so it's the user he thinks barely warm which I guess makes sense still trips me out so this one from Alex's pre-testing has actually been used a couple times and innovation cooling told us that they've had people beta testing these that have reused them like over 20 times over 50 even right over 50 yeah over 50 all right so our average is 50 1.7 so exactly what we expected okay so all that's left for me then is I want to I want to see like is it thinner yeah I guess let's shut it down all right Oh one thing that is cool about is that it has the 35 watts per meter Kelvin that's in the Z direction so like up and down but it's 800 ish 800 thousand they're not totally sure what's premiere Kelvin from side to side oh so that's why it burning me when I torched it yeah so that's really good if you have like a hot spot on your CPU it'll get it out to the heat pipes really well one thing I don't like about it that much is the size what well I mean that looks fine for a core I 9 but if I was cooling something like a thread ripper or what I've been tellin scalable is or something like that like a really big chip I kind of feel like you could actually have died area can you touch me not covered I don't know it's a wonderful question I don't know the answer to that so I guess it should be like that and theoretically nothing would ever happen to it at all yeah they said to lifetime it should be about the same I think the coolest thing about this for me is like you know for the last 10 20 years you know every other month there's like a big article about how you know carbon nanotubes or this other novel implementation of carbon is going to completely revolutionize everything and up until now at least in the thermal space although theoretically it has great thermal properties we haven't really seen anything and now here it is you can buy it you can stick it in your computer yeah completely commercial and it works speaking of things that work our sponsor for this video fresh books is the small business accounting solution built for the way you want to work it's designed for freelancers and small business owners and allows them to save time get more organized and perhaps most importantly 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has cool shirts like this one as well as our community for oh I'm sorry and our community forums which you should totally join so like theoretically there's no reason for us to ever apply thermal goop again we just throw these on everything from now on and just reuse them forever like I guess we could yeah take that thermal paste no no it's like we've got so much of it though