CORSAIR XTM70 Thermal grease can be applied cleanly with the included stencil and spreader

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#6071202
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Will the kit help you to apply the perfect amount of thermal grease?
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Kaarme:

Will the kit help you to apply the perfect amount of thermal grease?
They say "correct". Now, if correct == perfect I don't know...
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What? 1.0g ~€10.-? Mix they gold into it?
#6071218
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How to overcomplicate the simplest of things.
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brogadget:

What? 1.0g ~€10.-? Mix they gold into it?
No it would be more expensive with gold... lol More seriously there is even more expensive one on the market, also, the most expensive one isn't the best one...
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Stairmand:

How to overcomplicate the simplest of things.
1000% agree with that... On other hand if they make money with it, then: why not?
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barbacot:

They say "correct". Now, if correct == perfect I don't know...
It was just a joke, in case someone else from Guru3D has ever watched TronicsFix videos.
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They are really amping up the price of thermal paste .... Gd900 I love you even more!
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I have tested a billion different pastes from the whole noctua offering to corsair, cooler master, thermal grizzly, gd900, gelid... And at the end, thanks to reddit, the one that always performed the best and lasted the longest was some weirdly named cheap amazon paste, "SYY 157".. Aswell as TFX https://overclocking.com/test-corsair-xtm70-thermal-paste/2/ according to this french site it does perform well, but 30 bucks?? When i paid my 4g tube 4,80? At this price better buy KPx or TFX..
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njug:

I have tested a billion different pastes from the whole noctua offering to corsair, cooler master, thermal grizzly, gd900, gelid... And at the end, thanks to reddit, the one that always performed the best and lasted the longest was some weirdly named cheap amazon paste, "SYY 157".. Aswell as TFX https://overclocking.com/test-corsair-xtm70-thermal-paste/2/ according to this french site it does perform well, but 30 bucks?? When i paid my 4g tube 4,80? At this price better buy KPx or TFX..
Those are thick pastes, mostly ideal for GPUs but PTM7950 Honeywell sheets are better. I use TFX on vram though, since its similar to a thermal putty.
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GeniusPr0:

Those are thick pastes, mostly ideal for GPUs but PTM7950 Honeywell sheets are better. I use TFX on vram though, since its similar to a thermal putty.
Correct! But apparently it's also great for waterblocks, AIO; it does way better than kryonaut on my 3600, that is!
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deusex:

What about Prolimatech Pk-3 Nano Aluminum Thermal Compound? heard this one is top notch, anyone used it?
I think i've heard it's capacitative? I may be mixing up things but i remember avoiding it because of that I do recommend SYY 157, TFX, KPx..
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Trying to buy TFX in UK is near impossible I cannot find it anywhere except for £88 on amazon, so I have managed to buy 2.5g of TF9 for £25 so will see how good that is. But the prices of paste have gone up alot in the past year.
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This is good paste. Pricey, but was one of the few brands in stock at my local shop. Repasted an old gpu and temps dropped quite a bit. Working good with my liquid freezer 2 also. Didn’t use the stencil - kept it old school.
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barbacot:

They say "correct". Now, if correct == perfect I don't know...
Except I don't agree that it is correct. That stencil looks like a recipe for trapped air. The correct method is a dot or cross
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Just an FYI, "trapped air" has been debunked lots of times.
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Yogi:

Except I don't agree that it is correct. That stencil looks like a recipe for trapped air. The correct method is a dot or cross
Recently repasted doing 5 dots, 1 in the middle and 4 smaller ones in the corners. Kinda similar to cross really.
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PPC:

Just an FYI, "trapped air" has been debunked lots of times.
Hmm.. So everything I learned in thermodynamics about thermal interfaces is just wrong. Good to know
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Yogi:

Hmm.. So everything I learned in thermodynamics about thermal interfaces is just wrong. Good to know
If you say so, your words.
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Yogi:

Hmm.. So everything I learned in thermodynamics about thermal interfaces is just wrong. Good to know
What you learn about insulating properties of air is correct but "trapped air" in thermal pastes does not happen at least not enough to matter. Most thermal paste applications do not matter, the least effective application method is only not enough material.

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