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In this experiment, we tested the heat transferability of 9 different thermal pastes. With each thermal paste, we:
These workstation processors are much larger than their mainstream CPU counterparts (with, generally, many more CPU cores). As such, there is much more surface area to cover for with these chips, which means you'll need more thermal paste in more spots to maintain good thermal transfer. 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. GC-Extreme I was using only on older GPUs and CPUs and there performance was meh for me, sometimes was on par with EK Ecotherm or Hydronaut but sometimes was worse than cheap TIM
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.
The acoustic results for the Frozen Notte aren’t bad in this worst case acoustic scenario, measuring just slightly louder than Fractal Design’s Celsius+ S28. 95W PPTa.) This means no power limits on Intel’s i7-13700K, and AMD’s default power limits on AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X.