Best thermal paste for laptop

[ILI-BIG]

Hi everyone. I recently upgraded my laptop's CPU T6400 to X9100. But it overheats. It reaches 95⁰C at gaming. I m using 1.63w/m-k thermal paste. I found Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for laptop. Will it cool down?

[Tan3l6]

9 minutes ago, ILI-BIG said:

Hi everyone. I recently upgraded my laptop's CPU T6400 to X9100. But it overheats. It reaches 95⁰C at gaming. I m using 1.63w/m-k thermal paste. I found Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for laptop. Will it cool down?

It will probably lower temps 2-3 degrees perhaps. But hard to predict how much exactly, probably not enough though. Actually it might not do much at all, since some laptops just have a low capability to cool components, as they have small heatsinks anyway, but the Thermal Grizzly paste would do no harm.

[Bob__]

1 minute ago, ILI-BIG said:

Hi everyone. I recently upgraded my laptop's CPU T6400 to X9100. But it overheats. It reaches 95⁰C at gaming. I m using 1.63w/m-k thermal paste. I found Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for laptop. Will it cool down?

buy some liquid metal also im intrested what laptop allows you to change the CPU

[PC HEROES]

4 minutes ago, ILI-BIG said:

Hi everyone. I recently upgraded my laptop's CPU T6400 to X9100. But it overheats. It reaches 95⁰C at gaming. I m using 1.63w/m-k thermal paste. I found Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for laptop. Will it cool down?

Thermal Grizzly is the "BEST" Thermal Paste on the market. Just be sure that you don't use the Hydronaut variant, it's meant for Liquid Cooling.

 

Also I recommend a Laptop Cooling Pad, Link and pic below...

 

Laptop Cooling Pad

 

 

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, ILI-BIG said:

Hi everyone. I recently upgraded my laptop's CPU T6400 to X9100. But it overheats. It reaches 95⁰C at gaming. I m using 1.63w/m-k thermal paste. I found Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for laptop. Will it cool down?

if the cooler in the laptop isn't made for the cpu you installed then i imagine no it won't

[ILI-BIG]

3 minutes ago, Bob__ said:

buy some liquid metal also im intrested what laptop allows you to change the CPU

Liquid metal is risky.

[Bob__]

Just now, ILI-BIG said:

Liquid metal is risky.

says the man that swapped a laptop CPU

[YoungBlade]

49 minutes ago, Bob__ said:

says the man that swapped a laptop CPU

Those are ancient chips, which are PGA. They are no harder to swap than desktop parts - often the chassis is even just as easy to enter, because laptop makers back then didn't use glue for everything.

 

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Also, @ILI-BIG, I second the recommendation of a laptop cooling pad, but I'll give a much cheaper recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Cooling-KeiBn-10-15-6-S039/dp/B0B5QT3197

 

I've been using that for my work laptop, and it's surprisingly good for the money. Since you're using such old hardware, I figured you might be interested in saving a buck there.

[Bob__]

1 minute ago, YoungBlade said:

Those are ancient chips, which are PGA. They are no harder to swap than desktop parts - often the chassis is even just as easy to enter, because laptop makers back then didn't use glue for everything.

Oh had no idea

[SorryBella]

6 hours ago, Bob__ said:

buy some liquid metal

"And then itll die" -Linus G. Sebastian

 

Anything you had would be it if it hadnt fall off into dissolution, or the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut if you really wanna splurge. NT-H2, MX6, and Arctic Silver 5 is good shout too. But yeah, @PC HEROES got the good point there, the issue of laptop cooling is the gap between the laptop fan intake and the ground. Raising it up would help a lot in temps, but it doesnt have to be a laptop cooling pad, a laptop stand would fall cheaper in most cases. 

[freeagent]

Thermalright TFX is very good, has plenty of good reviews from laptop  users. It is a bit thick, so no pump out worries.

[ILI-BIG]

On 4/17/2023 at 7:57 PM, Tan3l6 said:

It will probably lower temps 2-3 degrees perhaps. But hard to predict how much exactly, probably not enough though. Actually it might not do much at all, since some laptops just have a low capability to cool components, as they have small heatsinks anyway, but the Thermal Grizzly paste would do no harm.

I repasted CPU with Hydronaut. It lowered temperature about 25-30 degree and CPU heats slowly.

[Tan3l6]

1 hour ago, ILI-BIG said:

I repasted CPU with Hydronaut. It lowered temperature about 25-30 degree and CPU heats slowly.

Yeah, 1.63 W/mK is quite bad for any thermal paste, yet perhaps there was not enough of it before. Because 30C difference would be when comparing a good thermal paste to a toothpaste.

Anyway, good to let us know!

[RascalPaws]

On 4/17/2023 at 12:00 PM, PC HEROES said:

Thermal Grizzly is the "BEST" Thermal Paste on the market. Just be sure that you don't use the Hydronaut variant, it's meant for Liquid Cooling.

 

Also I recommend a Laptop Cooling Pad, Link and pic below...

 

Laptop Cooling Pad

 

 

I  know this thread is just over a year old, and I don't mean to flame you if that's how it's taken, however I've taken your advice on the Kryonaut and used it in my laptop with an 11900h, The Kryonaut starts hardening and becomes brittle and QUICKLY starts losing it's thermal conductivity at 80c so a Laptop environment is NOT good for it with newer procs. Kryonaut extreme however is supposedly designed for extreme overclocking and also laptop environments where procs can easily hit 80c and higher.

[RevGAM]

55 minutes ago, RascalPaws said:

I  know this thread is just over a year old, and I don't mean to flame you if that's how it's taken, however I've taken your advice on the Kryonaut and used it in my laptop with an 11900h, The Kryonaut starts hardening and becomes brittle and QUICKLY starts losing it's thermal conductivity at 80c so a Laptop environment is NOT good for it with newer procs. Kryonaut extreme however is supposedly designed for extreme overclocking and also laptop environments where procs can easily hit 80c and higher.

I would go with Honeywell PTM7950, paste or "pad". It's phase-changing and once you "bake" it with high temps, it gets better over time. A couple of months ago someone switched to it and said that, initially, it seemed to do poorly but, once it had been baked, it was really good. Others who've used it a long time have commented on how it lasts so long without replacing it and may even improve more. I don't have this product at this time, so take those statements with a grain of salt.