Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Question/Discussion

[HadesCore]

I bought some thermal grizzly conductonaught for my GTX1080ti FE and after opening it up and finding that the factory thermal compound job was horrible on it with more than a third of the die having never had any paste on it, after using the liquid metal my temps dropped a solid 20 degrees celcius across the board which I am stoked about. Since I have plenty left I was considering putting some on my i5 9600k which I use a Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4 cooler on with the included thermal compound. I havent found any concrete answers but from doing some reading it looks like both the surfaces that make contact on the CPU and cooler are both nickel plated so I think I should be fine since no aluminium is making contact. But I thought i'd ask anyway just to make sure and also to get some tips/opinions/experiences using liquid metal and what kind of temp drops you guys have seen, if any at all.

 

TLDR;

Is it safe to liquid metal on i5 9600k with Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4?

Have you used thermal grizzly conductonaught? How'd it go?

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, HadesCore said:

Is it safe to liquid metal on i5 9600k with Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4?

If you dont care about selling the CPU and cooler seperately in the future, that is. It will be a pain to clean the base plate off. Graphics cards are sold as a bundle of cooler and card so it's not so much of a problem for them.

[RejZoR]

I've gona back to top of the line standrad thermal paste. For some bizarre reason, my GTX 1080Ti was acting weird and I'm 200% I didn't short anything with it because I purposely insulated GPU surroundings with cheaper paste to prevent that. Also, temps (or clocks) were not any better than now with CoolerMaster Nano Maker. And it stained copper block so horribly I had to sand off part of it to get rid of the Conductonaut. Same with AiO. Had to sand the coldplate contact surface, because it stained raw copper so badly. And I only had it applied for 1 month or so. I don't know what was going on.

 

If you don't want complications, just get the best regular thermal paste you can get. Nano Maker is amazing and I heard good things about Kryonaut.

[HadesCore]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

I've gona back to top of the line standrad thermal paste. For some bizarre reason, my GTX 1080Ti was acting weird and I'm 200% I didn't short anything with it because I purposely insulated GPU surroundings with cheaper paste to prevent that. Also, temps (or clocks) were not any better than now with CoolerMaster Nano Maker. And it stained copper block so horribly I had to sand off part of it to get rid of the Conductonaut. Same with AiO. Had to sand the coldplate contact surface, because it stained raw copper so badly. And I only had it applied for 1 month or so. I don't know what was going on.

 

If you don't want complications, just get the best regular thermal paste you can get. Nano Maker is amazing and I heard good things about Kryonaut.

to the best of my knowledge atm im pretty sure everything is nickelplated copper, I know it isn't bare copper but im hoping its not aluminum

[HadesCore]

2 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

If you dont care about selling the CPU and cooler seperately in the future, that is. It will be a pain to clean the base plate off. Graphics cards are sold as a bundle of cooler and card so it's not so much of a problem for them.

i'll probably hang on to these for a while, I only built this pc last month.

[RejZoR]

7 minutes ago, HadesCore said:

to the best of my knowledge atm im pretty sure everything is nickelplated copper, I know it isn't bare copper but im hoping its not aluminum

It's copper. In my case it even badly stained CPU's IHS, but I mostly managed to clean it up. I don't know what kind of weird aggressive mixture I got...