SYY Paste, long term reviews anyone?

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I have seen in several places that the SYY 157 or whatever it is paste is meant to be really good.
Then again so is Kryonaut, but a slight mis mount and its terrible, pump out can mean it's maintenance cycle is a pain, oh and if you hit 80c+ it starts failing on you. Can attest to these things with my PS4 Pro, though I have managed to get it to work stably atm.

Anyway, I had to shim my laptop heatsink because it had a strange pad attached to the coldplate face and a "pro" removed it. Personally I have no idea if you should just apply paste over that pad or remove it to paste. I digress, the guy balls'd up big time and I had to do it myself and void warranty anyway. Boo, hiss.
I found without that pad I had bugger all mounting pressure and I have had to shim it (0.5mm) and now it actually seems to work better.

Has anyone used SYY long term on any device and can give a decent review of performance?
Up to now I haven't had any issues, though the 5800H in my laptop does like to get hot anyway.
 
Honestly, I had no problem spreading it, just needs working a little.
Typical thing with certain reviews on rainforest. Some sing it's praises, others slat it, but you can find that with most pastes so it's pretty hard to find an accurate review.
It has appeared in several YT reviews and seems to do really well, but for how long is the question.
 
Any issues with pump out or anything @Dave2150 ?

Im currently using it in my laptop, temps have risen, but that could be cause the K5 pro on the VRMs allowing more heat to come back since its on a shared heatpipe
 
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