How do thermal pads rate as a comparison? We use them for led modules/cob with an output up to 4000Lm.
We also use what looks to be a metallic type thermal pad which is extremely delicate and tears easily.
Just to note, these thermal pads are used on lighting for shopping centres and are on constantly. 5 year warranty. Never had one fail yet.
May be worth a test and see how they do in a torch
Arctic silver 5 is 8.9 w/mk, the above is up to 50 w/mk or am I reading that wrong? Option to request a sample on the site. May be worth sending a sample to djozz
Often in manufacturing it is simpler and cheaper to use thermal pads.
They do work, and usually it is fine because the cooling solution is more than what is necessary.
As long as the temps are within the rated operating range there is no reason to spend more money on higher thermal transfer.
In commercial applications you only spend what you need, the rest is profit.
For people who want the best cooling possible for their flashlight, then thermal paste is better
I don’t know, but i can imagine they’ll work okay when made of aluminium and / or copper ‘foam’ like structure.
With pressure they will flatten a little or something?
holy war about the thermal paste
I almost did not overclock the CPU and I definitely have enough 3 W/M-K
The extra couple of degrees does not bother me
The problem with declaring jihot is that it would be fought out by jihotis, which sounds like something from a Playboy magazine…
I have Arctic MX-2 thermal compound, by the way. It seems fine to me, although I don’t push my stuff right to the brink the way some of the other people here do.
Liquid metal is much better than regular thermal pastes.
It is used quite often with extreme cooling PCs because it gives a significant temp improvement.
As long as you don’t use it on aluminum surfaces, Coolaboratory Liquid Ultra is the best you could use.
The only thing better is soldering/welding two pieces of metal together.
Could (any and all of) you please avoid using posting links of these dumbassly implemented locale/foreign Aliexpress sites?
Please understand how plenty of users may not be able to understand whatever (horridly) transgoogled stuff, to start with. Then, if I you click on “Go to Global Site” it straight takes you to the “main page”, but you lose track of whatever you were looking at. Thus, as far as I understand this, you are forced to log into your account, then re-open that foreign language link and add the item to your wishlist. After that you can come back to the global/whatever site of your choice, and follow the link in your wishlist to access the requested item information in a sort of understandable language.
Here are some measurements from the low price range, the reference is mx-2.
that was a xeon quad with around 80W overall compsuption.
With higher consumption the temp differences are even bigger and bigger.