Wasted $150 on a thermal paste that claimed to drop temps by 10 degrees

Bought a fancy nano-diamond thermal paste off Amazon after seeing reviews that promised huge drops, but it ran the same as Arctic Silver so I'm telling people to just stick with the cheap stuff, has anyone else been burned by gimmicky thermal compounds?

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gray_morgan6d ago

Used to be one of those guys throwing Arctic Silver on everything and thinking that was the peak of thermal paste performance. Bought into the hype of some graphene infused stuff last year because the marketing made it sound like magic physics. Ran my own benchmarks with the same cooler and everything, saw maybe a 1 degree difference at best. Totally switched my view after that experience. Thermal paste is just a gap filler, none of it is going to magically overcome a bad cooler mount or poor case airflow. Save your money and spend it on something that actually moves heat, like a bigger cooler.

diana_kim666d ago

The nano-diamond one is the one I almost bought! glad I didn't. You nailed it with the gap filler thing, that's all it really is. I wish more people would realize that spending an extra 20 bucks on a slightly better tower cooler or an extra fan for your case will do way more for your temps than any fancy thermal compound ever will. My buddy spent like 20 bucks on some liquid metal stuff and his temps actually got worse because he didn't apply it right and it started pumping out after a few weeks. just stick to the basic $8 tube of mx-4 or kryonaut and put your cash into things that actually matter.

jamie_webb676d ago

Ha, I heard about those nano-diamond ones from a tech YouTuber who tested them and got basically the same results as you.