Gelid GC Extreme - work with both aluminium and copper?

[Mortis Angelus]

I can't seem to find a straight answer to this, so I ask you guys: Can I use Gelid GC Extreme with both aluminium and copper baseplates on the heatsink? E.g. Coollaboratory's liquid metals are not usable with aluminium.

 

I have one intel stock-cooler and one Hyper 212 EVO

[madmeatballs]

I've used the GC-Extreme on copper waterblocks they are okay! You can use the gc-extreme to polish your baseplates too. I do it whenever I change my paste.

[Mortis Angelus]

19 hours ago, madmeatballs said:

I've used the GC-Extreme on copper waterblocks they are okay! You can use the gc-extreme to polish your baseplates too. I do it whenever I change my paste.

Yeah, the copper plate was an okay. But how about nickel and aluminium? Any possible negative reactions to that?

[Jumper118]

Only things with gallium in react to metals.  So liquid metal and thermal grizzly conductanaut. 

[Mortis Angelus]

4 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

Only things with gallium in react to metals.  So liquid metal and thermal grizzly conductanaut. 

Sorry for all the idiot-questions, but I do not know these things: The Gelid is not containing Gallium I take it?

[Jumper118]

11 minutes ago, Mortis Angelus said:

Sorry for all the idiot-questions, but I do not know these things: The Gelid is not containing Gallium I take it?

no. it does attack any type of metal or plastic 

[Bcat00]

On September 8, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Mortis Angelus said:

I can't seem to find a straight answer to this, so I ask you guys: Can I use Gelid GC Extreme with both aluminium and copper baseplates on the heatsink? E.g. Coollaboratory's liquid metals are not usable with aluminium.

 

I have one intel stock-cooler and one Hyper 212 EVO

I dont understand. Your coolers are only in the mid class/ low range so why would you use something like liquid metal?

 

nowadays, only extreme OCing user would use that stuff after delidding their cpu with a high end cpu cooler.

[Mortis Angelus]

5 hours ago, Bcat00 said:

I dont understand. Your coolers are only in the mid class/ low range so why would you use something like liquid metal?

 

nowadays, only extreme OCing user would use that stuff after delidding their cpu with a high end cpu cooler.

But that's why I am asking about the Gelid. It is not a liquid metal compound, it is an exact opposite with super high viscosity. Gelid claims that it is a non-corrosive, non-conductive compound that works great with copper (even as a polisher), but they do not mention anything about usage with nickel-coated heatsinks or alumin(i)um based heatsinks.

 

So I am looking for the best non-metal, non-conductive, non-liquid compound and thus I look at the Gelid.

[Lays]

5 hours ago, Bcat00 said:

I dont understand. Your coolers are only in the mid class/ low range so why would you use something like liquid metal?

 

nowadays, only extreme OCing user would use that stuff after delidding their cpu with a high end cpu cooler.

To be honest, CLU makes such a big difference in temperatures for $12, that I'd recommend someone to delid + CLU their chip over upgrading to a $100 cooler.  It will do basically the same thing, if not better.  

 

I used to use thermal grizzly between my IHS & die, and a while back decided to try CLU.  Totally worth it, made a big difference. I never used to be able to run 5 Ghz 24/7 until I got CLU, and because the temperatures were so much lower, it allowed me to stabilize it.  I can run Prime95 now at 1.43v 5 ghz, and only hit 70c max, previously it'd be 85-90c.