Noctua delivers space-grade cooling with its NT-CP1 Carbice carbon nanotube thermal pads
Noctua delivers long-term cooling stability with its new carbon nanotube thermal pads
Noctua has officially launched its new NT-CP1 Carbice Carbon Nanotube pads for AMD AM4 and AM5 CPUs, promising users strong cooling performance that doesn’t degrade over time. Problems with outer thermal interface materials, like pump-out, delamination, cracking, and drying out, do not occur here. Instead, users get space-grade stability. Yes, Carbice pads are used in space!
For people who want to use their systems long-term, these thermal pads promise a maintenance-free experience. If you don’t want to repaste your CPU, these pads could be the solution you are looking for. While thermal pastes will perform better initially, repeated thermal cycles will improve the performance of Noctua’s NT-CP1 pads. In the long term, these pads will outperform Noctua’s NT-H1 thermal paste.
– Noctua NT-CP1 AM5/4 Carbice Carbon Nanotube Thermal Pad – £20.95 (Amazon UK)
It gets better over time, not worse
What’s special about these carbon nanotube thermal pads is that they improve with use. While traditional thermal pastes become less effective over time, these thermal pads become more effective over hundreds and thousands of thermal cycles. Over time, the pad’s carbon nanotubes will incrementally conform to the surfaces of your CPU and cooling solution, as well as their microstructures. This means that these pads will offer better cooling performance over time.
These thermal pads promise PC builders a hassle-free installation and maintenance-free use. No reapplication is necessary, no monitoring, no degradation.
Noctua is bringing Carbice’s Carbon Nanotube thermal pads to market, starting with support for AMD Ryzen CPUs. At Computex, Noctua also stated that they will “collaborate with Carbice on future R&D”, so expect to see more Noctua Carbice thermal pads in the future.
Noctua’s NT-CP1 thermal pads are available in the UK starting today for £20.95.
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