Conductonaut

[lavalord]

Will thermal grizzly conductonaut be ok on a Cooler master 212 LED heat sink? It has 4 direct contact heat pipes, but it has aluminium in between them. Is it ok? If not what if I just put it on the copper bits and leave the aluminium with nothing since the main heat absorber is the pipes. Or maybe put it on the copper pipes and normal thermal paste on the aluminium?

[For Science!]

6 minutes ago, lavalord said:

 

Just don't use conductonaut between the IHS and CPU cooler. A good paste will be good enough, particularly for a low-end cooler.

[lavalord]

2 minutes ago, For Science! said:

Just don't use conductonaut between the IHS and CPU cooler. A good paste will be good enough, particularly for a low-end cooler.

I already accidentally bought it I wanted to by kryonaut but something went wrong. 

[For Science!]

2 minutes ago, lavalord said:

I already accidentally bought it I wanted to by kryonaut but something went wrong. 

I would suggest you return it, the compound will definitely squeeze out of wherever your apply it and it will corrode the aluminium, it will also amalgamate with the copper anyway which is undesirable. 

[lavalord]

5 minutes ago, For Science! said:

I would suggest you return it, the compound will definitely squeeze out of wherever your apply it and it will corrode the aluminium, it will also amalgamate with the copper anyway which is undesirable. 

Already opened. I want to know if it will affect my cooling performance negatively. If I avoid putting it on the aluminium is it ok? Or is it ok if that bit corrodes since it isn't the main heat dissipation. Or if I put it on the copper and then put normal TIN on the aluminium bits

[For Science!]

8 minutes ago, lavalord said:

Already opened. I want to know if it will affect my cooling performance negatively. If I avoid putting it on the aluminium is it ok? Or is it ok if that bit corrodes since it isn't the main heat dissipation. Or if I put it on the copper and then put normal TIN on the aluminium bits

super bad idea in my opinion, if the block is compromised you are likely to break the mounting mechanism and that would be catastrophic for both performance but also the cooler itself. Mixing pastes is also unlikely to help you since it will still form contacts. If you can't return it, then I would suggest you don't do anything with it to minimize any further costs.

 

The only real place liquid metal has a place is between silicon and nickel plated copper.