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so i decided to apply liquid metal to both of my GPU's as well as my cpu, it spread and applied well to both of the GPU's but for the cpu I had to apply it on the heat sink side and then attach it to the cpu which was the opposite of the GPU in which it did not seem to want to spread on the heat sink. Both graphics cards had a massive temperature drop which is great! the cpu on the other hand went from an aida 64 test running in the 60-70max to now reaching thermal throttling, I am going to replace the cpu paste with normal stuff but I am curious why this failed?

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You need to rub it until it sticks using the included swabs.

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If it's thermal throttling you screwed up badly.

Try it applying it again.

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Have you resealed the CPU? I don't really recommend doing that, if you did, maybe the IHS sits too much above the CPU die.

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For the Cpu, youre meant to apply it om both sides. this is probably wht it failed.

 

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4 minutes ago, For Science! said:

For the Cpu, youre meant to apply it om both sides. this is probably wht it failed.

 

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It's a CPU with a soldered IHS I am only applying it between the IHS and heat sink. Also that's good to know but I did it on a 6700k with just one side and it worked perfect so I guess its luck to, it has it on the ihs to and is perfect temps. also no I did not delid the CPU so no reseal, the 6700k I delided but did not reseal. I shall try again, It worked on a 6700k so it should work on a 6850k

 

19 minutes ago, Enderman said:

You need to rub it until it sticks using the included swabs.

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If it's thermal throttling you screwed up badly.

Try it applying it again.

I mean it's a 1% thermal throttle at a large overclock but like... it was way cooler before, I'll try again.

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12 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

 

I mean it's a 1% thermal throttle at a large overclock but like... it was way cooler before, I'll try again.

Clearly you have a hot spot where thr LM is not contacting the die. Just put it on the CPU side to make surr its done properly.  You got lucky once, but not point tempting fate.

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59 minutes ago, For Science! said:

Clearly you have a hot spot where thr LM is not contacting the die. Just put it on the CPU side to make surr its done properly.  You got lucky once, but not point tempting fate.

You still missed the part where I said this CPU is not delided 

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1 hour ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

You still missed the part where I said this CPU is not delided 

I see, my apologies, I thought you meant the IHS when talking about the heat sink. Which CPU cooler are you using?

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2 hours ago, For Science! said:

I see, my apologies, I thought you meant the IHS when talking about the heat sink. Which CPU cooler are you using?

Before liquid metal I had good temps and now bad and I am water cooled so it's one of the ek blocks

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31 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Before liquid metal I had good temps and now bad and I am water cooled so it's one of the ek blocks

So it's a custom loop with one of their copper blocks or one their aluminum sets?

 

If it's copper then probably something funny happened to LM while installing the block, you'd need to reapply and try again or better yet not try at all since on soldered CPU's with LC the benefit of LM is minimal against the unnecessary risk you are taking.

 

If it's one of their aluminum sets then, well, rekt. I hope it isn't ;-)

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6 hours ago, For Science! said:

For the Cpu, youre meant to apply it om both sides. this is probably wht it failed.

 

 

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10 hours ago, Lathlaer said:

So it's a custom loop with one of their copper blocks or one their aluminum sets?

 

If it's copper then probably something funny happened to LM while installing the block, you'd need to reapply and try again or better yet not try at all since on soldered CPU's with LC the benefit of LM is minimal against the unnecessary risk you are taking.

 

If it's one of their aluminum sets then, well, rekt. I hope it isn't ;-)

Heat sink is not aluminum it almost looks gold plated. Owell it worked good for the GPU so I'll just put the CPU back to something else

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