I think your lack of variance is due to having free air allowing for radiated heat, heat loss, of the copper. Insulate the plate and the entire lower/bottom slug and rerun tests?
I'm thinking of just eliminating the bottom block entirely for paste tests and just using the sensor block. I may even make a smaller copper block and sensor setup just for thermal paste testing.
@@snarksdomain pastes are more sensitive to BLT so unless you have a mechanical clamp, your current methodology you’re in for some complications. That said, non direct die cooling pressure from Intel is stated around 50 psi so if you add about 28 lbs on top of the slug, you’ll mimic this state
I say this with the utmost caution: perhaps. I'll rerun the test sometime next week if I can and only use the sensor block and just place each paste/putty onto the hotplate. I don't think Carbonaut will get accurate results as the hot plate surface is not flat like my copper blocks are. It would be amazing to me if the Putty could be used in place of thermal paste. Then you'd only need to open a card once to replace everything.
I haven't tested Conductonaut on the hotplate as I'm currently figuring out how I want to improve the apparatus. It's kind of on the backbones for now. Lately I've been testing stuff on my improved testbench and have since tested Conductonaut as well as LMTG-100, and many more to come soon. Updated charts are now accessible with the Google Drive link in my channel description.
I think your lack of variance is due to having free air allowing for radiated heat, heat loss, of the copper. Insulate the plate and the entire lower/bottom slug and rerun tests?
I'm thinking of just eliminating the bottom block entirely for paste tests and just using the sensor block.
I may even make a smaller copper block and sensor setup just for thermal paste testing.
@@snarksdomain pastes are more sensitive to BLT so unless you have a mechanical clamp, your current methodology you’re in for some complications. That said, non direct die cooling pressure from Intel is stated around 50 psi so if you add about 28 lbs on top of the slug, you’ll mimic this state
So the thermal putty has similar performance compared to the pastes? That's rad
I say this with the utmost caution: perhaps.
I'll rerun the test sometime next week if I can and only use the sensor block and just place each paste/putty onto the hotplate.
I don't think Carbonaut will get accurate results as the hot plate surface is not flat like my copper blocks are.
It would be amazing to me if the Putty could be used in place of thermal paste. Then you'd only need to open a card once to replace everything.
Arctic and Arctic Silver are 2 different brands.
where you can buy it is the TG PP10
Unfortunately it has been discontinued and is no longer manufactured by T-Global. I'm looking for an alternative putty now.
@@snarksdomain let me know when you find something👍
Do conductonaut
I haven't tested Conductonaut on the hotplate as I'm currently figuring out how I want to improve the apparatus. It's kind of on the backbones for now.
Lately I've been testing stuff on my improved testbench and have since tested Conductonaut as well as LMTG-100, and many more to come soon.
Updated charts are now accessible with the Google Drive link in my channel description.