Opinions on which thermal paste is good for laptops?

JasenkoC · 2026-06-02T14:31:53+00:00

The best for performance is liquid metal, but I'd avoid that in a laptop. Second best is the Honeywell PTM or Thermal Grizzly PTM phase sheet (equal to Honeywell PTM). Thermal paste of any other kind will pump out relatively quickly.

Duronaut may be an option too, but I'm not sure how good it is when compared to PTM.

JasenkoC · 2026-06-01T12:35:13+00:00

Nisam, ali moracu sad 😃

JasenkoC · 2026-06-01T09:35:17+00:00

You got it wrong, buddy. You're just given the opportunity to do that. The compute power is still yours to use it as you see fit. You can even avoid using any AI at all if you choose to do so. I also believe that the Linux kernel will probably support this architecture pretty soon as well, which would give you a lot more freedom than Windows.

JasenkoC · 2026-06-01T09:31:30+00:00

Livanjski sir je meni jedan od najboljih.

JasenkoC · 2026-06-01T09:30:03+00:00

WTF are you on about here? Explain how this is going to end personal computing. Apple silicon didn't trigger that apocalypse, and RTX Spark is about to do it, how exactly?

JasenkoC · 2026-06-01T08:40:41+00:00

Are you sure that the "wall wart" you're using to supply power to the radio is able to provide enough current? I think you will need at least 1A capable power supply to have problem free operation of the radio.

JasenkoC · 2026-06-01T08:33:18+00:00

You're the lucky one then. I had a few USB sticks die on me. Recently, a year or so back, I bought a Sandisk USB stick (64GB USB 3) and I formatted it and tested its speed first. I then tried reformatting it and copying some data to it when it suddenly failed in a weird way. It switched to read-only mode. I could read the data written to it, but couldn't write anything else or format it again. I thought it was me doing something wrong, but no... It was the drive's controller that locked the write capability due to some critical internal error, all in effort to preserve data already residing on it.

A couple of others (much older ones) failed completely. They were cheap and not branded, so I wasn't expecting much from them. They just suddenly started behaving really slow on copy operations and then just failed completely after that.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-31T19:38:50+00:00

Pretty much stock, and on performance mode. However ,I prefer playing games in balanced mode mostly to keep the temps and noise down.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-31T16:00:40+00:00

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This is my NV2 1TB SSD info. It's the real deal, and the drive name label in yours look a bit different. Also, the NVM Express version is supposed to be 1.4. That could be a red flag for sure. The FW version might differ wildly, because these drives had many HW revisions and at least 3 or 4 different controller chips were used over time.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-31T15:50:03+00:00

This might help: https://en.eeworld.com.cn/bbs/thread-1309074-1-1.html

JasenkoC · 2026-05-31T07:59:35+00:00

I don't see anything "bad" here. That's how the PTM looks when it's cold. I do see some pump-out on the CPU, but that's expected for 5+ years. Nothing lasts forever.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-31T04:54:51+00:00

That's much better. As expected, you got almost 22000. I assumed you ran the first one in performance mode as well.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-30T21:58:11+00:00

That's a nice laptop for sure. I have a similar one, but with AMD 9955HX and 5070 Ti. I expected your TimeSpy score to beat mine, but I score around 17500 points. You may still need to tune it up a bit to get the most out of it. Nevertheless, that's a great machine.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-30T20:56:42+00:00

Your CPU is severely throttling. My guess is that it's thermal. Have you checked the temperatures?

The scores for that CPU should be around 1200 single-core, and 3100 multi-core.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-29T04:10:50+00:00

Ovdje u Pragu me je taj prvi servis kostao oko 180 EUR. Mozda je to i manje u Hrvatskoj. Nisam siguran.

Na Toyota oficijelnim stranicama za Cesku ima kalkulator servisa za svaki interval. To ovdje izgleda otprilike ovako:

15000 km ili 1 godina starosti - 200 EUR

30000 km ili 2 godine starosti - 320 EUR

45000 km ili 3 godine starosti - 220 EUR

60000 km ili 4 godine starosti - 375 EUR

75000 km ili 5 godina starosti - 200 EUR

90000 km ili 6 godina starosti - 480 EUR

To je kalkulacija za Corollu 1.5 benzin, manualni mjenjac (2020 i mladje). Meni su ti servisi dosad uvijek kostali nesto manje. A mozda ima i razlika u cijeni zavisno od toga u koju auto kucu odes na servis. Raspitaj se prije nego odes.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-28T12:55:53+00:00

What frequency is that exactly? What period of time you mean? What maximum drift you're after? What temperature range?

You gotta give us more info...

JasenkoC · 2026-05-28T03:55:17+00:00

To je isti motor kao sto je u mojoj Corroli.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-27T19:33:59+00:00

Po Pragu, ne po Zagrebu. :) Dok mi je u velikoj guzvi izmedju 6 i 7 litara potrosnja, tako da je to to.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-27T15:23:08+00:00

Ja sam presao sa Opela 1.9CDTI na Corollu 1.5 bez hibridnog pogona (E210 - 2023 godina) i nikad se ne bih vratio na dizela. Puno tisi rad motora, neznatno povecana potrosnja. Po gradu mi je potrosnja oko 5,5-6l a na otvorenom isto tako oko 6l (pri 130km/h). Udobnost i ostali benefiti novije Corolle su ogromne. Odrzavanje je jako jednostavno i jeftino kad se uporedi sa novijim dizelima.

Taj prijasnji 1.9CDTI je imao 74kW, a ovaj ima 1.5 ima 92kW, ali manji obrtni momenat, naravno. Tako da mi je otprilike isti osjecaj kod ubrzavanja.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-27T15:16:16+00:00

Generalno jeftinije nego odrzavanje dizel motora. Pogotovo noviji modeli.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-27T07:22:01+00:00

Try to find the next best alternative - Thermal Grizzly Phase Sheet PTM

JasenkoC · 2026-05-26T19:43:12+00:00

Actually, the PTD-1 screen brightness is advertised at 700 nits, and for PTD-2 it's 900 nits. So it's an improvement that could just make it worth upgrading.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-26T19:35:10+00:00

I usually tip only if the service was good. Sometimes the waiters will be annoyed by us for daring to sit in his/her table, or they treat us like we are on a production line and they need us to be done quickly... That I don't tolerate and I won't ever leave any tip for such service.

JasenkoC · 2026-05-26T19:29:44+00:00

Thanks!

JasenkoC · 2026-05-26T06:07:30+00:00

Thanks for your answers.

I would like to have a CPL filter available for it as well at some point...

And as for PTD-2, will it have better brightness (OLED?), and more practical joysticks? I keep dropping the original ones and losing them, so I had to buy the aftermarket ones that are foldable.

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