Let's get to the actual measurement results, which I was able to run in parallel during the holidays, because you can control almost everything automatically. And behold, with the compact water cooler, the Sharkhan XTC-4 is pretty much exactly where the approximately equally viscous gelid GC Extreme also moves.
The fact that the IC Diamond 7 performs worse than the same paste as the diamond 24 in a later post-test of the larger tube is due either to a possible aging of the paste (the Diamond 7 was already two years old) or to a larger series spread. I consciously included the value, as the paste has been tested twice and all the following graphics represent 1 to 20 of our thermal paste charts.
The position is somewhat deceptive, because the distance (the delta) to the Gelid GC Extreme is still with in the possible tolerance range with 0.5 degrees. Conversely, however, we also see very nicely that all pastes, when applied optimally and the contact pressure is right, perform in something equal. So there is no such as the absolute miracle paste. One should therefore rather consider for which application which paste could be most appropriate and the easiest to use.
If you carry the Sharkhan Extreme XTC-4 with the spatula and heat it a little, then also thin enough, even an air cooler with comparatively low contact pressure sits without fault and reproach, because the paste creates a really homogeneous layer between the two surfaces and also prevents the cooler from slipping. This effect can be with very thin pastes.
When used on the old graphics card, you are also within a Kelvin to the direct competitors, which is good. It is therefore not an outlier up or down, but solid mediocrity, which is not negatively affected. The cryonaut, however, managed to add a much thinner layer, which is always an advantage with really planned heatsinks. However, an unolded RX Vega would probably have gotten away better with the Sharkhan Extreme XTC-4 due to the somewhat tougher consistency. But I've already written: Expediency.
The bottom line is that south Korean thermal paste made in China does not outlier, but performs exactly like so much that is probably made from the same or a similar "primordial soup". OEM business stop.
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