Is liquid metal good ?

[DG Result]

I'm going to buy a prebuild PC and I have the option to choose what thermal compound I will get preinstalled on my CPU.

The higher grade one that they are offering my is Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut and the other one is Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. I just want to know which one is better?

Its for the AMD FX-8300 8-Core.

 

I dont know too much about thermal compounds, but I watched Linus' video and now I have mixed opinions. Hope you guys can help me out.

[Gikero]

How much are you buying that system for and what are the specs? FX-8300 is a older CPU and platform. Not bad, but unless it is really cheap, you should be able to do better at the same price point.

And to give input on the original question, I have a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo with Artic Silver thermal compound on my 8320 and it doesn't run hot at all. Never used the liquid metal product, but I know you'd be fine with some more general compound.

[SeanAngelo]

6 minutes ago, DG Result said:

I'm going to buy a prebuild PC and I have the option to choose what thermal compound I will get preinstalled on my CPU.

The higher grade one that they are offering my is Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut and the other one is Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. I just want to know which one is better?

Its for the AMD FX-8300 8-Core.

 

I dont know too much about thermal compounds, but I watched Linus' video and now I have mixed opinions. Hope you guys can help me out.

you're going to buy a prebuilt computer in 2018 with an FX-8300? lolwut.

[Parideboy]

If the cpu it's not delidded, liquid metal is useless. Just go with Kryonaut or Hydronaut

[divito]

The variance in temperature from the standard and common thermal compounds is +/- < 4C from benchmarks.  It's really not worth all the trouble people make about it. 

[The Pizza Thief]

I believe it is not, long time ago it tried to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[Energycore]

20 minutes ago, DG Result said:

I'm going to buy a prebuild PC and I have the option to choose what thermal compound I will get preinstalled on my CPU.

The higher grade one that they are offering my is Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut and the other one is Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut. I just want to know which one is better?

Its for the AMD FX-8300 8-Core.

 

I dont know too much about thermal compounds, but I watched Linus' video and now I have mixed opinions. Hope you guys can help me out.

First of all, don't even think about buying a prebuilt with an FX-8300. Its architecture is 5 years old now, has high power consumption and low performance.

 

Look for computers with Ryzen 5 or even Ryzen 3 instead. Or Intel chips from this gen.

 

With that said, the options you're given for thermal paste are not the best. The best one for CPU to cooler thermal conductivity is Kryonaut.

[Energycore]

16 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

you're going to buy a prebuilt computer in 2018 with an FX-8300? lolwut.

#currentyearargument

[DG Result]

Thank you so much for the information !

I am currently waiting for my European scholarship and I am saving some more money on my own. So this march I will probably get a new PC with a GTX 1060.

[SeanAngelo]

1 hour ago, Energycore said:

#currentyearargument

i'm surprised that stores that build computers still offer the FX processors  should at least be offering Ryzen by now...

[bcredeur97]

if you're buying an FX processor today, then just get normal thermal paste....