Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut Thermal Pads.

peahead · 11 Apr 2019 at 09:54

So Grizzly are releasing a line of thermal cpu pads which i really like the look off what do you guys think will they be up to the job ?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/thermal-grizzly-carbonaut-thermal-pad-32-32-0.2-mm-th-02h-tg.html

Donnie Fisher · 19 Apr 2019 at 13:36

On paper they look good. Didn't Linus do a test of something like that a while back and iirc found they performed nearly but not quite as good as high quality paste.

Iirc for the pad he spoke about had a high conductivity value which was in the horizontal plane (i.e. across the surface touching the lid of the CPU/ heatsink ) and the vertical conductivity was less (i.e. the transfer vertical from CPU through pad upwards into the heatsink.

Id be interested in one, I think it's a good idea.

bifday2k · 19 Apr 2019 at 13:53

Der8auer's thoughts on it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbw1CZp-GNE

Basicially he says its about 3 degrees less performance then really top end pastes, but that performance will last its life time without having to reapply.
So kinda put in place and forget type of deal.

an0nym0us · 19 Apr 2019 at 21:52

I'm quite excited about this product. Looks like this carbonaut thermal pad can be reused again and again. Hopefully this means I can say goodbye to thermal paste.

Looking forward to seeing more test results from different sources.

peahead · 20 Apr 2019 at 00:15

Yeah i found the Linus video on this and he seemed pretty positive about it. i might give one a try when they become available to buy.

Danny75 · 20 Apr 2019 at 00:34

Oh this is great. I tried the pea method but didn't get the results I expected.

LuckyBenski · 21 Apr 2019 at 13:45

an0nym0us said:
I'm quite excited about this product. Looks like this carbonaut thermal pad can be reused again and again. Hopefully this means I can say goodbye to thermal paste.

Looking forward to seeing more test results from different sources.

From what I've seen they can be used forever in-situ, but they're not very strong and will break if handled too much. Also handling will probably contaminate their surfaces with dirt if done too often.

Donnie Fisher · 27 Apr 2019 at 21:08

I've been thinking about it for my laptop, (alienware 15 r3) which suffers from a poor heatsink bracket design where over time it seems to deteriorate in terms of cooling ability ... last time my paste seemed to have dried out a lot. A thermal pad may be worth a shot in its place instead for a try-out.

LuckyBenski · 27 Apr 2019 at 21:47

Donnie Fisher said:
I've been thinking about it for my laptop, (alienware 15 r3) which suffers from a poor heatsink bracket design where over time it seems to deteriorate in terms of cooling ability ... last time my paste seemed to have dried out a lot. A thermal pad may be worth a shot in its place instead for a try-out.

Hmm if you have 3-5° to spare it might be a good solution. Sadly with gaming laptops being hot beasties I'd be inclined to chalk it up to regular maintenance and repaste as necessary. Depends though, are you talking 3 months or a year?

Apone70 · 28 Apr 2019 at 11:22

They are great for people testing lots of CPUs, mobos, coolers etc which means they dont have to reapply paste all the time

Donnie Fisher · 16 May 2019 at 07:54

It’s probably got the headroom for a few degrees. At load it’s about 85deg. When the paste/contact was poor it punched past 100.

The deterioration last time was over about 12 months. I don’t really use the laptop to it’s potential these days, so I rarely stress it fully for long periods.

bimbleuk · 16 May 2019 at 09:16

Apone70 said:
They are great for people testing lots of CPUs, mobos, coolers etc which means they dont have to reapply paste all the time

Used to remove similar from enterprise hardware years a go so they have been around since hardware was made. Maybe not as sophisticated and sometimes used in conjunction with paste but consistency or repeat-ability during testing must also be a positive for these.

an0nym0us · 19 Jun 2019 at 19:55

LuckyBenski said:
From what I've seen they can be used forever in-situ, but they're not very strong and will break if handled too much. Also handling will probably contaminate their surfaces with dirt if done too often.

This guy's experience is exactly as you mentioned:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxEsd-Fpwk

peahead · 6 Sep 2019 at 18:01

I have recently installed one of these thermal pads on my 9900k and am using a Eisbaer LT360 AIO to cool it.

Currently idling at 28c with with fans on quiet mode @842rpm and stress testing ups cpu temps to 62c with fans ramping up to 1497rpm.

If this thing lasts i so no reason to go back to using thermal paste for the sake off a few degrees here and there.

willhub · 9 Sep 2019 at 15:26

Wish I heard of these before snapping the heads of the screws off the HSF in my laptop