Hi Jow Forums, I need to replace my laptop and desktop's thermal paste. Liquid metal seems too risky (pic related) and thermal pads (graphite ones) performe worse than thermal paste, so I figured I'd use paste. The problem is that it seems that laptops have shitty heat sinks that are not perfectly flat, so they don't make perfect contact with heat spreaders on processors. People on forums suggest using thick thermal paste, namely Innovation Cooling Diamond 24 (but it costs too much for the performance it has), Cooler Master Mastergel Maker Nano, Noctua NT-H1 (although some say this last one won't last very long because of some effect of which I don't remember the name). According to this test tomshardware.com
TG Kryonaut is the best paste, but I'm worried it will dry out on my laptop. What paste do you recommend for a laptop?
Hi Jow Forums, I need to replace my laptop and desktop's thermal paste...
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Forgot to mention that I'd like it to last at least 3 years before having to replace it. Also what is the best method for applying it on a laptop, which basically has delidded processors?
I just use MX2. Doesn't really matter for those 1-2 degrees, your laptop will always run hot anyway
By the way, liquid metal slowly kills your chip and eats away the cooler, never use it unless you are an autist who buys new shit every time at release
How long does that last?
Depends on how hot shit gets. If you're often running shit at say 80C it won't last more than a year, but if you're doing that you will likely have to clean the heatsink anyway at that point
Forgot to mention: all conductive pastes are also a pretty bad idea, especially in laptops
What is that photo?
Spaghetti on the south bridge
Liquid metal on a laptop's motherboard
dude. the difference between rando generic thermal paste and ULTRA XTREME HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID METAL T-1000 APPROVED PROTOTYPE THERMAL PASTE is like 2c in most cases unless you get an especially shitty brand. get some arctic silver or whatever and stop worrying about it.
This, it doesn't really matter. I recommend Arctic Silver 5, it's cheap and does the trick.