suggestions on thermal paste

[thantibus]

hi, i'm new to repasting and that sort of stuff, i have an alienware 15r1 which i barely move, it usually stays in one place and i pretty much use it like a desktop, i'm gonna have it repasted by tomorrow and i've read many articles saying that the quality of the thermal paste actually matters, i also read about how efficient and cool liquid metal can be, but i also read a ton of warnings about it and people saying that you could brick your computer if you use it wrong, i'd like to know what you think about this, should i have my laptop repasted with liquid metal? should i use regular thermal paste? and if so, which brand do you suggest?, thanks.

pd, i won't be the one doing the job, i'll leave it to a professional.

pd, my laptop tends to throttle while running dota or ds3, it runs perfectly for like 20 minutes and then throttles for like 4, then it runs fine for like 5 minutes and the cicle starts all over again.

[Nogghan]

3 minutes ago, thantibus said:

hi, i'm new to repasting and that sort of stuff, i have an alienware 15r1 which i barely move, it usually stays in one place and i pretty much use it like a desktop, i'm gonna have it repasted by tomorrow and i've read many articles saying that the quality of the thermal paste actually matters, i also read about how efficient and cool liquid metal can be, but i also read a ton of warnings about it and people saying that you could brick your computer if you use it wrong, i'd like to know what you think about this, should i have my laptop repasted with liquid metal? should i use regular thermal paste? and if so, which brand do you suggest?, thanks.

pd, i won't be the one doing the job, i'll leave it to a professional.

pd, my laptop tends to throttle while running dota or ds3, it runs perfectly for like 20 minutes and then throttles for like 4, then it runs fine for like 5 minutes and the cicle starts all over again.

you shouldnt put LM between the cooelr and the IHS, while you can its much more likely that if you apply a little too much that it could run into your socket, best to keep it to the DIE an the IHS otherwise use regular high end thermal paste they all perform with in 2 degrees of each other at the highest end, if you want a good thermal paste thats cheap use MX-4 from arctic or if you want one of the best commercial pastes get thermal grizzly hydronaut or kryonaut,the conductonaut liquid metal is more suitable for delidding 

[Nogghan]

6 minutes ago, thantibus said:

hi, i'm new to repasting and that sort of stuff, i have an alienware 15r1 which i barely move, it usually stays in one place and i pretty much use it like a desktop, i'm gonna have it repasted by tomorrow and i've read many articles saying that the quality of the thermal paste actually matters, i also read about how efficient and cool liquid metal can be, but i also read a ton of warnings about it and people saying that you could brick your computer if you use it wrong, i'd like to know what you think about this, should i have my laptop repasted with liquid metal? should i use regular thermal paste? and if so, which brand do you suggest?, thanks.

pd, i won't be the one doing the job, i'll leave it to a professional.

pd, my laptop tends to throttle while running dota or ds3, it runs perfectly for like 20 minutes and then throttles for like 4, then it runs fine for like 5 minutes and the cicle starts all over again.

im also not aware of any tech services that will redo the thermal paste on your CPU with liquid metal?

[thantibus]

Just now, Nogghan said:

im also not aware of any tech services that will redo the thermal paste on your CPU with liquid metal?

there are people in my country that will do pretty much anything tech related, they told me that they could repaste so i was planning to ask them what they thought about liquid metal.

also, i don't live in the states.

[Nogghan]

well its probably better to just use a high end thermal paste unless youre delidding your laptop CPU, then in that case use liquid metal on the DIE and IHS and regualar thermal paste on the top of the IHS and under the cooler 

[TheBean]

use anything non-conductive. you can use anything because the stock ones are garbage, so anything is better than nothing. 

[Neo-revo]

you can, but if you dont have exp with liq metal yourself please dont try it unless you are willing to risk the life of any thing you put it near (electrical wise)

 

 

I voted NO, not cause it cant be dont, but cause of whatevery one else said, the gains you'd realize are small compared to the risk involved if you are not confident you'd put on the right amount you could kill your computer easily

[markr54632]

So every laptop I've ever worked on in the past 10 years has been bare die to cooler. No ihs.

 

Liquid metal is risky, and the  loser we get to hitting the limits of laptop coolers the smaller the difference. Personally I just use a good non conductive paste.

 

 

[wuod]

I would recommend Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut if you go for the non-liquid metal.