[Review]Test thermal grease on heat medium

[Alexandr0s]

Wait a second, I just realised something, and please correct or slap me if I'm wrong, but how are the Delta T and the effectiveness of a thermal paste related? The delta is directly related to the amount of heat dumped into the system. If all parameters are the same, it means that with the Gelid less heats gets dumped into the system. That means more heat 'stays behind' in the CPU. Which would mean a higher CPU temperature.

I'll ask some other experts, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Scgt1, you might want to wait buying one till I get some confirmation.

[knopflerbruce]

Isn't delta T a way to measure how hot the CPU must be before the thermal conductivity of the _CPU surface + thermal grease_ is high enough to "move" all the heat onto whatever cooling device you've mounted on the heatspreader? (not sure how accurate that is, but this isn't a physics forum so I don't care you get the idea )

[scgt1]

never even herd of gelid gc-extreme = /

Me neither. But it seemed to perform pretty awesome, and from what I can tell, the test method seems to be accurate. 3 seperate mounts should provide an accurate measurement. I'd like to try it out myself as well .

Wait a second, I just realised something, and please correct or slap me if I'm wrong, but how are the Delta T and the effectiveness of a thermal paste related? The delta is directly related to the amount of heat dumped into the system. If all parameters are the same, it means that with the Gelid less heats gets dumped into the system. That means more heat 'stays behind' in the CPU. Which would mean a higher CPU temperature.

I'll ask some other experts, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Scgt1, you might want to wait buying one till I get some confirmation.

Yea that would be interesting to know although I have no idea what you really said other then it may be working against one whom wants to keep their gear cooler. LOL