 Wine gets better as it ages. You know what else gets better as it ages? Thermal based. Five minutes nagsiziki ka na para sa windows mo. Maraming na kaming na tulungan. Date? Seven different ako. But now, I'm from a love of my life. Date? Ingresan walang purchase ang life ko. But now, I'm a world-class Zuba instructor. So, web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel. And ngayon, ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko. Kaya ako naghanap ka ng legit, mura, at original software. Check out cdkoffer.com. Check out cdkoffer.com. Check out cdkoffer.com. My previous rig, the i54690K, which you've seen in some of my old videos na ginawa ako pa nung 2015. That rig and this thermal paste is even older than hardware sugar. Eight years is an eternity in computer hardware. Just for reference, yung unang GPU ko dun sa build na yun, GTX970. Yung Ryzen series, yung pinakaunang Ryzen series, 1000, came out 2017. Two years after I built that PC, this thermal paste is older than the entire Ryzen line. So, I kept this thermal paste in a cool, dark place. Not really thinking that I would use it in a video. Wala pa kaming shop nun, let alone a YouTube channel. But here we are now, an eternity after I used it. And now, this guy can help us answer the question, does thermal paste have an expiry date? To find out, we measured the performance of the eight-year-old NTH1 versus the performance of an NTH1 that we just recently opened within the past few weeks. Our test setup for this was our usual cooler test setup. So that's a Ryzen 7 5800X and close in a Cougar dual-face case set to mesh mode. And the torture software of choice was in a Bench R23. Now, initially, we tested using the stock cooler as we wanted a relatively subpar cooler so that any differences in the cooling performance of the thermal paste would be magnified. So, emphasis on the thermal paste rather than the cooling performance of the cooler. Starting out, the old thermal paste was noticeably thicker than the newer thermal paste, more viscose. However, when it came time to spreading it out, it spread out evenly just as easily as the newer thermal paste. It was harder, though, to press down on the plunger to actually extract the old thermal paste from the tube. Now, using an AMD stock cooler seemed like a good idea, but unfortunately, the CPU proved just too much for that stock cooler and both under the old and new thermal paste with thermal throttle that around slightly over 90 degrees. So, lesson learned, regardless of what thermal paste you're using, an AMD stock cooler is not sufficient to get the full performance out of a Ryzen 7 5800X. So, back to the drawing board, we replaced the stock cooler with a Deepcool AK620 with just a single fan. The new thermal paste does edge out the older one in terms of performance, but only by a very small margin. The highest temperature reached at the newer thermal paste was 77.9 degrees, but the old thermal paste really held its own with a high temp reached of 78.9 degrees. Only a one-degree difference between a thermal paste which we opened a couple of weeks ago versus one that has been opened, albeit stored properly for around eight years already. A one-degree difference is within the variance or margin of error that we would expect from these kind of tests. So, while there was notable improvement for the newer thermal paste, it wasn't a resounding victory. It's hard to call the new paste a clear winner. So, to answer the question, does thermal paste have an expiry date? If you're using Noctua and you store it properly, essentially the answer is no. You can dig out those old thermal paste and use them to repaste your computer now. The performance will just be basically as good as if you had gotten new thermal paste, which is kind of amazing if you think about it. So, props to Noctua for making a product that you can really rely on. But if you're availing of our cleaning and cable management service in the shop, no worries because we are always using new thermal paste, new Noctua NTH1. So, you can be rest assured that once you get back your cleaned rig from us, that is brand new or basically brand new thermal paste because we do go through a large number of tubes because a lot of people are asking us to clean their computers. But if you still have your old thermal paste, odds are that's still pretty good. Thanks for watching. Also clean and repaste GPUs. Nasamakati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site, www.hwsugar.ph, na 100% palaging up-to-date yung inventory dun. Kung instock yung item sa amin, available yung sa site. We also ship nationwide. Thanks for watching and maybe one of these days, magkita tayo sa shop.