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Noctua unveils a nanotube pad for AMD CPUs.

Reapplying thermal paste is a small PC chore you’d be glad to forget. Noctua says its new NT-CP1 can help do that: the carbon-nanotube pad is designed for AMD AM4 and AM5 processors, using technology from Carbice. The company’s more unusual claim is that performance doesn’t peak right away. It says the nanotubes conform to tiny surface structures over the first few hundred to a few thousand thermal cycles, improving performance before the pad settles into years of stable operation without maintenance. The interesting wrinkle is that it’s said to improve with use, then hold steady for years.

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