Category - Aircooling

Roundup: Thermalright TF4, TF7, TF8, TF9 and TFX Review – Thermal compound from flowing screed to bunker concrete

As I have been asked again and again about the Thermalright T9 and TFX (i.e. quasi TF10), today there is a Thermalright special with a total of five pastes, three of which I would only recommend to a limited extent. Even though all five pastes are good in terms of price/performance ratio, I consider some of them to be highly problematic. I had [...]


Fairytale lesson with nanotubes in thermal pastes: EC360 Ruby, Nuomi SYY-157 and Thermalright TF4 Review – Stupid lies vs. modesty

Today I’m writing about two pastes that I noticed very negatively during the database expansion because of their downright outrageous marketing and, for comparison, I’m comparing them with a cheap paste that doesn’t need such deception but has other weaknesses. But you have to ask yourself how stupid the brands think you are when [...]


Roundup with 5 phase change pads: Honeywell PTM7950, PTM7950SP, OEM PCM5000, PCM8500 and Thermalright Heilos Review

Today we are going to take a close look at five different phase transition pads and add them to the upcoming database. With the two PCM5000 and PCM8500, I am also testing two OEM pads with a thickness of 0.2 mm, which are sometimes cheekily sold as Honeywell (AliExpress, eBay), but are pure OEM products from a third-party supplier and as such are [...]


Thermal Putty Roundup from pink or gray to blue and from Halnziye or Laird or Dow – HY234, HY236 and HY268 vs. Hardwareliebe Extreme64 Review

Today I’m testing four Thermal Putty products for you, whereby these four products are examples of large companies and their products or mixed products. If I manage to organize more products, I will expand the database to include this category, because anyone who knows the circumstances when the pad thicknesses on graphics cards are not [...]


Industrial paste vs. AliExpress and mainstream: DOWSIL TC-5550, Gelid GC-4 and Snowman MTGS in a thermal paste review of large tubes

Today I have the next three pastes from your wish list in the programme (many thanks to the donors from the community!) and was rather satisfied with the result (but not completely). It also lived up to expectations, because you get a lot of content for your money. The DOWSIL TC-5500 is a decent industrial paste from Dow Corning, but unfortunately [...]


Noctua NT-H2, Gelid GC-Extreme and Thermalright TF7 in-depth Review: The cheapest paste is the best and the most expensive one is a real failure

Today I tested three pastes from my readers’ wish list and was downright depressed by the results of the first two pastes. That was until the last paste I tested built me up a bit. I tested established pastes such as the Noctua NT-H2, the Gelid GC-Extreme (in the blue tube) and the Thermalright TF7. Now, it’s not the first impression [...]


Thermal paste scandal with graphics cards? The hotspot problems on cards from various manufacturers have a common cause: greed

I have been and continue to be confronted with graphics cards from my readers whose initially good cooling performance dwindles after just a few months and whose hotspot temperatures are then well above the 100 degree mark. I have already published several articles on this topic, dealing with the symptoms and repair, but now I finally have the [...]


Corsair XTM70 Extreme Performance Thermal Grease Review – Just missed the top spot but really good and unfortunately also very expensive

The Corsair XTM70 Extreme Performance is convincing and even if the price is quite hefty even without iCUE, you still get an honest product. That’s a little spoiler in advance, even if the price really hurts me. At almost 17 euros for 3 grams, you have almost reached the gourmet temple and real caviar almost seems like an alternative bargain [...]


Real laboratory tests of thermal pastes on igor’sLAB – Part 2 – First comparative measurement with 2 expensive pastes

Yesterday we already had the big theoretical part, today we are doing a practical measurement with two selected pastes, whereby the paste that is nominally better on the data sheet is actually the “worse” one in the test and vice versa. Of course, the factor of potential long-term durability also plays a role, which may put the result [...]


MSI Spatium M580 Gen5 and M560: New SSDs with innovative technology

MSI is setting new standards in performance and efficiency with the launch of its next generation Spatium SSD series, the Spatium M580 Gen5 and Spatium M560 Gen5. The M580 Gen5 sets itself apart from the competition with innovative non-metallic vapor chamber cooling, while the M560 Gen5 offers a cost-effective DRAM-less option for Gen5 speed.   [...]


NZXT at Computex: Airflow cases, new fans, brand new power supplies and a tour of the trade fair with many products

First of all, I would of course like to recommend the valuable trade fair video from me, because the tour and a nice explanation naturally provide a real live impression that no film in the world can replace. If you want to see two people really sweating (me because of the heat and NZXT because of the amount of explanations), I can only warmly [...]