Anyone tried these carbon sheets as paste replacement yet?
I don't think that is any good... I have seen the test of a very expensive one which is supossed to have way higher heat transfer than any non liquid metal thermal paste and the temps were a bit higher on the tests...
There's GPU's that came with that stuff too and had temp problems which to fix was a pain in the ass since the cooler had to be sanded or with normal thermal paste it wouldnt make full nice contact with it, but after the temps went lower quite good...
Anyway the good thing with that is that it's supposed to last like forever so it should never lose performance and never need replacements, but who knows...
Kryonaut seems to be slightly better but from what I've heard any decent thermal paste will do the job (MX4 for example is just fine and performs almost as well for a much lower price)
Kryonaut = 12.5W/mk
Artic MX4 = 8.5W/mk
With the switch low temps sure I don't think there will be much difference in the temps, but it's up for anyone to judge if it's worth the extra money or not since some people even don't care and go the risky way for liquid metal to get the absolute best results.
I have always used Artic MX series and loved them, I only used Kryonaut for the first time on my PC GPU a few days ago, my experience with both even though I have only a ton with MX series is that MX series are super easy to spread and work well that way, Kryonaut is hard to spread, thick kinda a bit like glue and I have no idea if it will cause air bubbles with the spread method.
Artic MX2 and MX3 also they last for so much time even after like 4 years they were always still a bit moisty\liquid 4 me, MX4 seems to dry a bit faster and Kryonaut I have no clue whatsoever for how much time will it work being effecting as a heat transfer compound...
ps: Anyway if anyone's objective is really getting the most absolute lowest temps possible without any risk like with liquid metal then Kryonaut is probably for you, if you can live with something probably very similar and less expensive I'd go with Artic MX4 and you also get the benefit of being easier to apply with the spread method if you want to go that way... If you are a newbie, stay away from Artic Silver 5 and any capacitive thermal compounds and specially don't even try using anyone which is electrically conductive or you might risk making a mess and short something...
Did anyone take any good photos or videos when applying the new paste?
There are quite a few old videos on youtube already with all the mods, new thermal paste direct die contact with the copper sheet removed, pads on rams and from ram metal cover to backplate, a hole in the rear case near the fan for more airflow intake, there's all sorts of stuff on youtube...
I don't think I ever seen was anyone trying to cool the 2 biggest nintendo switch faulty chips, the Video out chip and the charger controller chip, there's a gazillion switches out there which have problems on either of them, maybe I will try cooling them too when I mod mine, one of them I think it's below the main motherboard, if the case below is metal maybe if it touches it thermal paste would work super fine, I still havent opened mine so don't know the clearance between the chip and the switch case and don't even know if it's all metal even though from videos it looks like its all metal...
What does impact temps, (remember - paste is just there to ensure a good thermal connection. The paste doesn`t do any cooling itself....
Yeah, I wish was that there was a cheap custom cooler with the whole backplate soldered to the copper pipe cooler as a all-in-one piece and all made of copper, that would be very handy, I wish we could fully cool the switch without even needing the fan, that would give a more battery life, but then again I guess it would require so much copper that would have been too heavy
and probably would melt on the dock and not good for OC either
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