[Experiment 2] Household products and bodily fluids used as Thermal Compound

[Lord Nicoll]

This is the 2nd; vastly improved methodology testing round of using household things as thermal interface material. Variables have been removed and some major changes have been made, as detailed below. 

 

Voltage; In this round of testing, voltage was locked close to the stock voltage of this CPU [I5 3570K] at 1120 millivolts. At times this voltage rose to 1128 millivolts, as measured by a multimeter. 

 

Cooler; In this round, the stock Skylake cooler has been replaced by a Corsair H55, While the TIM is what we're testing, the water heating until equilibrium should be negligible, as well these tests took place back to back, so the water never cooled beyond the initial 20 heat test conducted with commercial TIM. 

 

IHS TIM; This CPU was delidded and had it's stock TIM replaced, for better or for worse, it now has the same TIM as was tested, Jetart Nano Diamond. This was just a paste I bought at a local store and is currently what is in use, it is competent. 

 

Test; This test was conducted using all 4 threads of Prime 95 small FFT, for 10 minutes, with a few minutes of before and after. This is very close to before. 

 

Results; Graphs have been provided of arbitrary CPU temps as read out by MSI Afterburner, as well as the Min/Max of the coolest and hottest core, on this CPU it was always the 3rd core, for both. 

 

Dead Components; This test did claim a victim, my [already faulty] Maximus V Formula has now been rendered very unstable but this, and will be definitely be recycled, If you want it for your wall or what ever, message me and I'll ship you the board [you pay p&p], but remember it's not really working and not repairable, I even washed it to finish the tests. 

 

Body Fluids Tests; NOPE, never again, I stopped after the 3rd one, not viable, I won't ever be doing them again. 

 

Methodology;  Methodology is simple, MSI Afterburner will be used to take a screenshot of arbitrary CPU temps, Realtemp will be used to show max core temps, and throttling. Prime95 small FFT on all 4 cores will be used to generate heat.
A Corsair H55 will be used as the cooler, with Push/Pull 120mm corsair fans, the motherboard is an ROG Maximus V Formula. The CPU is an i5 3570K at stock clocks, voltage locked at 1.12v (it's stock varies between 1.096 and 1.112). 

 

The RAM, Video Card, HDD and PSU are somewhat irreverent, so I won't list them. 

 

Test will run for 10 minutes OR until 2 cores thermal throttle together, 3 cores at any one point throttle, or the CPU permanently throttles to under 3GHz (stock turbo boost is 3.6GHz)

 

The test method has been massively updated and the unrealistic 1.4volt on a skylake stock cooler are gone, in favour of this set up, with temp graphs for the 10 minutes.   

 

 

Actual Results

  

CONTROL, Jetart Nano Diamond, Tests 1 and 2

Test one

Pass,   H=74°C,   L=27°C    Normal thermal compound passed fine, this CPU was delitted and uses this compound under the IHS. This is the control, repeated twice

 

Test two

Pass,   H=74°C,   L=28°C    second test was consistent with first test.

 

 

Nothing    (no TIM)    

Pass,   H=103°C,   L=33°C    Not as bad as I thought it would be, I unpowered the pump for a moment to see if it was working, the temp rose on the hottest core from 98 to 103, it still got to 101-103 at highes.

 

Petroleum Jelly

Pass,    H=81°C,    L=27°C    Test was only 9 minutes, calculation error. This works well but not quite as good, but grease is sometimes part of TIM, so maybe petroleum grease is close.

 

Bleach

Pass,    H=77°C,    L=27°C    Chlorine might be a good conductor of heat in this form, but the corrosion was visible even from this just 12 minutes, do NOT use. 

 

24 Karat gold leaf, Tests 1 and 2

Test Tne
Pass,    H=77°C,    L=32°C    *I think I selected the blend of tests for this one* This test, while not reflected in the min/max, was better than the actual TIM in test 1, this is probably because of Gold's thermal conductivity and maluability. Average score was really good

 

Test Two

Pass,    H=91°C,    L=29°C    I suspect I selected the blend first time by mistake. Gold work hardens, I used the same sheet, so it's possible that was also a contributing factor in the poor performance.

 

Fairy Washing liquid

Pass,    H=78°C,    L=31°C    performed alright, not much to say.

 

Lithium Axle Grease

Pass,    H=92°C,     L=32°C    slow temp rise was of concern, might not be the greatest. 

 

PVA Glue

Pass,    H=78°C,    L=30°C    I bet this will be fun to clean off the CPU [it was indeed a pain]...... For this reason I wouldn't advise this.

 

AquaFresh Toothpaste

Pass,    H=79°C,    L=33°C    Classic one that get's quoted a lot, not actually that great it seems

 

Sensodyne Strontium Toothpaste

Pass,    H=79°C,     L=28°C*    Room temperature fell substantially for a moment (I had to open a window due to glue being spill), results not affected as I waited for the room to heat back up. Visible in graph

 

Baking Soda and Both Toothpasts

Fail,    H=105°C,     L=27°C    DNF. Room temperature is still a little lower. After almost 10 minutes, clocks fell to 2990MHz, after throttling to 3000-3200GHz, and did not rise after 2 updates. absolute fail. 

WD40

Pass,    H=103°C,    L=31°C    One single core, for less than a second, hit 103, but this is an isolated incident, the coolest core idle is also the hottest under load.

 

Thermal Pad

Fail,    H=105°C,    L=43°C    DNF. Test was attempted 3 times, each time throttling caused under 3GHz, and was instantaneous. These pads are very silicon like, more like a dry thermal pad, I'm not 100% if they are, I'll look into it.

 

Shaving Foam

Pass,    H=80°C,     L=29°C    what can I say, these all seem to work well...

 

 

 

Bodily Fluids..... Ew

 

Out of three tests, two caused a CPU socket short and controlled shutdown. This result in the permanent instability at booting of this board. I actually washed it with WD40 followed by soapy water to try and remove urine and semen traces from the CPU pins, it did end up posting after fiddling, but each boot requires find the DIMM slot that actually works this time. 

 

Saliva

This is the only 100% and verified test. 

Pass,    H=81°C,    L=28°C    Nope, these are kinda gross, but they're only going get worse.

 

Urine......

DNF,  Lose of data    urine seeped into socket pins, causing controlled shutdown, will not be reattempting

 

Semen

DNF, Lose of data    ew, no. Fun to get, but caused a short in the socket after becoming less viscous... Required a complete socket clean and probably bricked this board, what was left of it, and again, ew

 

 

 

 

I have been up now for close to 14 hours with this, I'm going to bed, please don't hate this too much, A hell of a lot of work, and the third test will introduce a temperature stable environment and a new CPU/Board combo, as well as different thermal interface materials to test, mostly chemicals, metals, and other stuff that I have to sign to get, maybe, it might be hard to actually test it. 

 

  

[Syntaxvgm]

you actually tried urine. 

Wow 

[_Rapid]

15 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

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This was a very interesting read. Good Work!

 

PS. I'll take the motherboard if you don't live reasonably close and its not the one that was killed by semen.

Edited March 1, 2017 by TheRandomness
Snipped quote for ease of scrolling.

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Semen

 

9 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Fun to get,

 

[Suika]

The last two... the test results don't surprise me, but...

[Bouzoo]

6 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

you actually tried urine. 

Wow 

Semen

[Julian5]

Semen, Im trying this epxperiment just for the retention of fluids.... must have been a breeze to clean

[TVwazhere]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

 

 

I laughed so hard at this

[Lord Nicoll]

9 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

you actually tried urine. 

Wow 

Yes, I had ear wax, snot and faeces lined up, but no, I'm not doing it, the board isn't stable enough to actually do it I think.

[Lord Nicoll]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

 

 

And you know what, it was fun, except having to get a spatula to wipe it off my finger and onto the CPU, I took a photo of it if any one wants to see it... jk, but I did take the photo,

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

Semen, Im trying this epxperiment just for the retention of fluids.... must have been a breeze to clean

not really. I had to take the heatsink waterblock thing off the VRM, and littertally wash the whole socket area with a shower head and a small brush and soap. I used a 2kW heatgun to dry it off at about 120°C

[Julian5]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

not really. I had to take the heatsink waterblock thing off the VRM, and littertally wash the whole socket area with a shower head and a small brush and soap. I used a 2kW heatgun to dry it off at about 120°C

I dont think a heatgun is a great ideo to use on motherboards, Maybe should have let the asians do theyre job with rice.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Julian5 said:

I dont think a heatgun is a great ideo to use on motherboards, Maybe should have let the asians do theyre job with rice.

I wanted it ready again and to ensure there was no residue left. The board is/was dead anyways. 

[Mr.Meerkat]

Someone has too much time on their hand...

 

I mean everything until the bodily fluids are actually useful but srly? Bodily fluids? 

[Julian5]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Someone has too much time on their hand...

 

I mean everything until the bodily fluids are actually useful but srly? Bodily fluids? 

Science, Atleast someone on earth has tried it.

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Someone has too much time on their hand...

 

I mean everything until the bodily fluids are actually useful but srly? Bodily fluids? 

Time wasn't the only thing on my hands for the last two tests.........

[flibberdipper]

20 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

you actually tried urine. 

Wow 

I'm more concerned that he tried semen...

[Julian5]

1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I'm more concerned that he tried semen...

its on your hands every now and then so why not try?

[flibberdipper]

Just now, Julian5 said:

its on your hands everyday so why not try?

*once a month, thank you very much.

[PlayStation 2]

Deadass don't even know why you even bothered with semen.

[Lord Nicoll]

4 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Deadass don't even know why you even bothered with semen.

before it killed the board it was only 77°C on most of the cores, I don't have the results so can only go by my memory of watching it happen. 

[PCMasterDebater]

I'm glad you did it so I didn't have to? 

 

Who am I kidding, I wouldn't even try any of these... lol

[VerticalDiscussions]

Drink Bleach :3

[DildorTheDecent]

mfw the board was killed with jizz

 

Whoever gets that board.....my god. 

[kelvinhall05]

@Lord Nicoll You should try water cooling with the bodily fluids.

 

 

Ew, semen? I guess it was fun getting it LOL.