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Review on Enhance Cooling Efficiency with Performance Ultra Low Impedance Heatsink Compound by Carl Durant

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Used on my Strix Hero III laptop; works like a charm, much less messy than what came out!

So I found that my laptop was getting a little too hot after the first year of use, and despite the lack of any real instructions for this particular model on exactly how to fix this problem (and there aren't any real glitch / usage manual for this .everywhere.), I took a leap of faith and grabbed this stuff. To be clear, since I did NOT use this on desktop and therefore couldn't use the template, I can agree with some of the other reviewers; It does NOT spread well (I ended up throwing caution to the wind by just dabbing it with the blade of a plastic knife and then spreading it out as evenly as possible). That is not much. I don't know, different? I know I need to close the air gaps between the heatsinks and anything they touch, but I've found this to be incredibly inconsistent, especially with the VRM in my machine (I'm guessing the kind of ferrite they use for ASUS -Machines and THIS noodles use only). , do not go well together.?). On the other hand, I used about a drop of paste for the entire job; The OEM paste was a nasty mess and eventually broke, requiring a lot of toothpick level work to get it all out of the car. there is a laptop. Can't say it "cools" better, it's a laptop after all, but it's definitely not thermal throttling, the fan curves are better behaved and everything works better because of it. .So, to be honest, I think this is my victory! We'll check that in half a year as the whole car should fall apart (or sooner if I start noticing misbehavior again) and for that it should be reglued (I wouldn't want to, but no, thanks to his pasting). I can use it on my desktop and see how it works!

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