Thermalright TF7 2g Thermal Paste Compound for Coolers,Thermal conductivity is 12.8W/m.k-2 Grams, Graphic Card CPU Thermal Grease, Laptop Thermal Grease(TF7 2g)

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For a compound that costs less than half as much as leading competitors , Phobya's Liquid Metal Compound LM offers impressive performance, often besting the the CoolLaboratory Liquid Pro or Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut in our tests. I'm not sure why the difference is so little between PBO without OC and PBO+OC, I thought it should be higher, also voltages seem a bit high when using Auto OC so I disabled it after the tests (it reached over 1.4v) Modern high-end CPUs, whether Intel or AMD, are difficult to cool in intensive workloads. In the past, reaching 95 degrees Celsius-plus on a desktop CPU was sually a cause for concern – but with today’s fastest processors, it is considered normal operation. Similar behavior has been present in laptops for years due to cooling limitations in tight spaces.

TF8 is really more productive than the MX4, but it is impossible to talk about the product apart from its cost, and it costs almost 3 times more expensive than its analogue.

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I'm asymbling my new "main" rig and ran into some trouble. Skipping the story, I had to remove my HSF from the CPU and will have to do it again for further troubleshooting. I used the thermal paste that it came with and when I reinstalled, I used the last of my Noctua NT-H1. Before you start posting about how bad it is and how great liquid metal is.... From personal experience and personal testing of thermal pastes, I used on my loop like NT-H1, NT-H2, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, Hydronaut, GC-Extreme, Arctic Cooling MX-4,MX-5, Thermalright TFX, SYY-157,ZF-EX and Kingpin KPx I want to share with you the results of replacing thermal paste from Arctic MX4 to Thermalright TF8. I make an experiment on the RTX3080 MSI Gaming X Trio. It’s important to know these criteria because even if your thermal paste can support a high heat transferability, if it can’t be applied easily and evenly in a thin and flat layer, then that aspect can negate its heat-transferring qualities. Additionally, electrical conductivity will give you a hint as to how meticulous the application process will be overall.

CPUs have incorporated ever more cores. Chiplets and hybrid architectures have proliferated, moving the most thermally demanding bits away from the exact center of the integrated heat spreader / lid of the CPU. And despite shrinking manufacturing nodes, many processors have just gotten physically bigger. So while you used to be able to apply thermal paste basically the same way across all consumer manufacturers and platforms and expect great results, that's no longer the case.

At the default PPT of 105W, the most intensive loads can be difficult to cool and result in the CPU running at TJMax with anything less than the strongest coolers. DeepCool’s LT720 and EKWB’s EK Elite coolers are the only two I’ve tested (yet) which can handle that much heat. As such, we’ll be looking at two metrics in this situation where coolers run with the CPU reaching TJMax (95c): Noise levels and watts cooled. I have similar results on Thermal Grizzly, Noctua NT-H2 or mentioned Streacom TX13 (and some others that I don't remember now). I had bad experience with TG as once in a while I had a dry tube and this stuff is expensive, so I'm not buying it anymore. I used NT-H1 in my 3090 Eagle and the initial results were great with 70c just after repasting. However the temps kept climbing and now I'm around 80c after three months or so. When choosing a thermal paste, factors such as heat transferability, ease of application, ability to support a thin, flat, and even layer, and electrical conductivity should be considered. Why does a thermal paste with high thermal conductivity not necessarily provide better heat transfer efficiency?

Most loads that common users run won’t use more than 200W, so this is a better analogue for a worst case scenario of what folks might actually see in day to day usage. At 50C, the results here are good, only beaten by the strongest coolers like DeepCool’s 360mm LT720 or Corsair’s 420mm iCUE H170i ELITE (results not shown here, see Tom’s Hardware). The noise levels here are good too, at 42.7 dBA it runs with a low hum. Thermal compounds might always be compared and debated over, but the simple fact remains: PC system building needs thermal compounds to effectively dissipate thermal loads. Without them, our beloved gaming and content-producing machines would struggle to keep components cool during heated frag sessions, heavy workstation computations, or just simply browsing the web. However, the results were different when paired with AMD’s Ryzen 7700X – performing only on par with high end air cooling. For this reason, I recommend the Frozen Notte 240 for cooling Intel’s i9-13900k – but not AMD’s Ryzen 7700X. Performance only scales by a limited amount with improved cooling capacity with Ryzen 7000. This also means that there is less of a benefit to running fans at higher performance levels. As such, it can be useful to see how coolers compared when noise normalized for quiet, silent operation.As you can see from the data, Kooling Monster KOLD-01 beats out the next leading thermal paste by close to a full degree and the lowest-performing thermal paste by more than 4 degrees.

In the past I’ve mentioned how my past testing of coolers had focused on Intel CPUs because they were the most challenging to cool and also consumed the most power. When Alder Lake was released, I noticed that the thermal difficulty of cooling the 12900K was more difficult compared to prior generation products – only a few coolers were able to keep it under TJMax. Liquid metal compounds are almost always electrically conductive, so while these compounds perform better than their paste counterparts, they require more focus and attention during application. They are very hard to remove if you get some in the wrong place, which would fry your system. When I'm changing CPUs more often then I'm using Noctua NT-H1 or NT-H2 as I have some more of those from coolers. They spread well and perform well. NT-H2 is better but also cost more.

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Gelid Extreme was popular a while ago and performs similar as TG or some others, but it's not available in stores recently. The results in this scenario are much like the previous ones, with Thermalright’s Frozen Notte performing on par with Iceberg Thermal’s IceSLEET X7 Dual in both thermal performance and total noise levels. 75W PPT