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Question regarding thermal paste for laptops

I am planning on repasting my laptop as it is outside of its warranty period now and figured it might help drop temps a bit. Plus I've heard factory thermal paste is garbage. I was just wondering what would be a good thermal paste to get? I've looked around the web for a while and a lot of people suggest Kryonaut and MX-4. I've also heard that some thermal pastes tend to dry out due to the different mounting pressures that laptops have, so I want to know for sure if I get something like Kryonaut, will it make a good enough difference to be worthwhile? And if so, will it last at least a year or two before needing to be replaced? And for the record, yes I know that it probably wont make a massive difference (probably no more than 3-5 C), but like I said, it is outside of its warranty and I have the money to burn so why not. If you need my specific laptop, it is a Predator Helios 300 PH-315-51-78NP.

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x | CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X73 360mm w/ Noctua NF-F12 120mm fans configured for top exhaust | GPU: MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 3080 | RAM: 32gb 16x2 G. Skill Trident Z RGB 3600mhz CL16 | Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master | PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 850w | Case: Phanteks Eclipse P500A | Fans: 3x Noctua NF-A14 140mm Intakes | Storage: 500gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 SSD, 1TB Western Digital Blue Sata SSD | Monitor: LG 27GL83A-B | Keyboard: Logitech G910 Orion Spark | Mouse: Logitech G502 HERO

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9 hours ago, FogBattleshipKongo said:

a lot of people suggest Kryonaut and MX-4

MX-4: will dry out fast in many laptops

Kryonaut: only works well in good heatsinks aka heatsinks with relative flat and even mounting pressure

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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