Thanx xgman that's the type of article I just love to read. I've read breifly about Carbon, and Diamond type materials, and their potential for cooling. Yet due to the prohibitive costs, few manufacturers would attmept to make such materials. They'd be fighting an up-hill battle against habit. Poeple have been conditioned to pay low prices for thermal materials, and change is difficult, especially when it's an increase in price. Personally I'd be happy to pay the price if the performance was there. Would i pay $20 for a few grams of thermal paste? I've paid $80 for a 1.5oz bottle of Colonge. Hell I'd buy my Processor all the Colonge it wants, and give it my Fortex watch if it perform better for me.
I have to say Nanotherm, I for one am happy your here at Xtremesys. I hope you remain. Your wisdom is appreciated, and I don't see you bashing other brands, just mentioning yours. I tried the PCM+ and I'm very impressed. One critical aspect of the article link above, (and of course the most important), was contact between surfaces. I knew I was on the right track in investigating attributes such as viscosity, but didn't know enough to understand what comprises a better thermal transfer material. . Your PCM+ is unique, in that it seems to have ameliorated the contact issues which plague other materials. I have a new found respect for your R&D. Looks like your goal was to produce a low cost material, the properties of which eliminated the larger particles found in most paste's, which create, and even increase gaps between surfaces. I was slightly perplexed at whether the blue "solid" in the liquid base, should be made to cover th entire surface, or just the clear base itself? I used a few extra drops, and took more time ensuring the "blue" was at 100% coverage, tobe safe. I wonder if next time, I should simple spread till moistened, not concerning myself in spreading the "blue" as well? Irregardless, my temps have dropped significantly. And even if my temp monitor is inaccurate in reporting the actual on die, there's still accuracy in the consistency from one measurement to the next. See what I mean? Because I used the same software to verify temps prior to the change-out, it's the one constant among the variables.
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