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Best Liquid Metal?

I've seen quite a few opinions on this but in general we only really talk about 3 liquid metal compounds. 

 

Thermal Grizzly's Conductonaut liquid metal

Cool Laboratories Liquid ultra liquid metal

LT-100 Liquid metal

(Phobyas, Thermalright and a few others have LM too, but nobody talks about them?)

 

On paper the numbers claimed are

 

Conductonaut: 73 k/w

Liquid Ultra: 79 k/w

LT-100: 128 k/w

 

Notice the one that is far different than the others? I'm curious if these claims hold up. Does anybody have numbers on these liquid metals?

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i've had great results from conductonaut, on my gpu I dropped 10-15 degrees celcius all around

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10 minutes ago, HadesCore said:

i've had great results from conductonaut, on my gpu I dropped 10-15 degrees celcius all around

Gamers Nexus says that most liquid metals have basically 1 degree C of change so would be interesting to see if the LT-100 actually makes a difference

 

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6 minutes ago, HadesCore said:

Gamers Nexus says that most liquid metals have basically 1 degree C of change so would be interesting to see if the LT-100 actually makes a difference

 

Huh, I did pick up some LT-100 but was curious on the differences The only cpu's I have on hand for testing are g3258 and 4690k, originally I was picking it up for a friends 8700k

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This LT-100 is a bit odd. Can't seem to find any webpage for it, is only on eBay and heat conductivity is like off the chart compared to liquid metal like Coolaboratory or Thermal Grizzly who are specilists in this field.

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I've used Liquid Ultra and Conductonaut at different points with the same delid, and any difference was within margin of error. I've never heard of LT-100.

 

Also, if you aren't using it for a delid and are just using it between the IHS and HSF, you're going to be disappointed. 

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  • 2 months later...

The LT Cooling LT-100 made of Indium, Gallium and Tin is the best thermal compound I've ever seen.

 

 

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On 7/20/2019 at 5:11 PM, MeDownYou said:

Conductonaut: 73 k/w

Liquid Ultra: 79 k/w

LT-100: 128 k/w

 

The difference comes from how they are measured (e.g. what temperature the conductivity was measured at). Liquid metal performs better at higher temperatures and so these numbers across different companies are meaningless.

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I tried both Conductonaut and LT-100 on my old i7 990x 4.9GHz 1.5V, 12 houprime 95 I'm using ek block,feser rad 480, D5, room temp was 23*C. Cpu temp was 65-70. But the thing about LT-100 is it left gray stain mark on my block over a night and i had to lap the block again. But the conductonaut was wiped off easily. 

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On 10/16/2019 at 4:02 PM, snorlaxgangs said:

I tried both Conductonaut and LT-100 on my old i7 990x 4.9GHz 1.5V, 12 houprime 95 I'm using ek block,feser rad 480, D5, room temp was 23*C. Cpu temp was 65-70. But the thing about LT-100 is it left gray stain mark on my block over a night and i had to lap the block again. But the conductonaut was wiped off easily. 

what was the difference between them, temperature and performance wise, which one was better even if it were a small difference?

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Conductonaut hands down, it is much easier to work with than the others and tends to have better longevity.

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On 10/16/2019 at 7:02 AM, snorlaxgangs said:

I tried both Conductonaut and LT-100 on my old i7 990x 4.9GHz 1.5V, 12 houprime 95 I'm using ek block,feser rad 480, D5, room temp was 23*C. Cpu temp was 65-70. But the thing about LT-100 is it left gray stain mark on my block over a night and i had to lap the block again. But the conductonaut was wiped off easily. 

Did you see a difference in temperature? I have tried Liquid Ultra and Conductonaut which is very similar, conductonaut is easier to work with, due to the accessories that comes with it, but both of them leave a grey mark when leaved long enough. But the grey mark won't hurt anything..

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Is there a good combination of liquid metal and thermal compound that you'd recommend?

For my next project I was planning to switch to Conductonaut after using Coollaboratory's stuff for the last two delids I did. Would pairing that with Kryonaut on the IHS be the best combo?

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