Liquid metal thermal paste???

[DonFaygo]

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=4373

Thoughts?

[HuffPCair]

Want to see how it performs before I replace my AS5

[DonFaygo]

Wonder if it would be ok under phase

[itslogz]

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=227681

Theres a decent lil review of it.


heres some more

http://www.overclockingwiki.org/foru...ead.php?t=2218

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=233780

[HuffPCair]

Wow very cool. I may look at it after I get a new rig. Very nice temps

[Vienna]

Pfft, I've got a lifetime supply of AS5, until AS5 is proven to kill my children in their sleep I will continue to use it!

[itslogz]

yeah different thermal pastes really i dont see the overrated point, it may lower 2-3C at the best conditions, whats the point of paying that much more for something just to POSSIBLY see the diff. To each his own though, personally I buy 22 Gram syringes of ceramique from bestbyte.net for $4.28 + shipping. And 22grams is anough for prolly 150+ apps

[basserdan]

yeah different thermal pastes really i dont see the overrated point, it may lower 2-3C at the best conditions, whats the point of paying that much more for something just to POSSIBLY see the diff. To each his own though, personally I buy 22 Gram syringes of ceramique from bestbyte.net for $4.28 + shipping. And 22grams is anough for prolly 150+ apps

2-3C from a TIM(!) I'll take it! Really though, are you using that much interface? I ask because, if you are saving it for long periods, how do you do so? I kept mine in the fridge in a ziplock bag for a year. When I used it again it seemed to be dried out. Of course Ceramique is a little funky in that it seems a little dry anyway.

[jasonelmore]

is this the same Liquid Metal substance NASA invented? They use it now in high grade Snow Ski's and is supposed to be really good stuff.

[Fairydust]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=159752
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=72814

One of the few cooling related prducts that actually lived up to the hype (although not problem free).

[HESmelaugh]

Didn't Martin test this too at some point?

The temps are probably the best you can get from any TIM. Problem is that you need to sand off the IHS and heatsink once you want to remove the liquid metal again...

[largon]

This stuff has two nasty features:
1. It becomes solid after a month or so after it's applied on the chip.
2. It stains copper permanently, as if it would soak into the metal itself. Which is exactly what it (gallium) actually does.

Good thing it's totally awesome as a thermal interface material.

[Chruschef]

This stuff has two nasty features:
1. It becomes solid after a month or so after it's applied on the chip.
2. It stains copper permanently, as if it would soak into the metal itself. Which is exactly what it (gallium) actually does.

Good thing it's totally awesome as a thermal interface material.

i was worried about the solid thing, so basically your waterblock is STUCK to the IHS, or did they find a way around the solidifying?

[largon]

Oh, one cant really say it would cause a problem when unmounting. The solidifies paste isn't that strong as an adhesive to make the block stuck because of it. Removing the hardened metal off the block and the chip is tedious, though.

[p2501]

It's best to wipe off what you can (maybe with a little acohol to help it) and then lap the rest off of the heatsink and heatspreader. It'll be faster if you already lapped both of them. And as largon already said, the bonding of the HSF to the heatspreader isn't that bad, nothing to worry about here.

[largon]

Isopropanol doesn't do anything to CLLP.
But there are chemicals that can "sort of" dissolve it.
I have some ancient jewelry polishing paste that just eats through CLLP, it turns into black powder once it comes into contact with the polishing paste. Consequently, the paste also does the same to the metal alloy they use to bond IHS to the core. I think it also causes cancer even if you just look at it.
Anyways, lapping is not necessarily necessary.

[p2501]

Maybe not necessary, but I found it worked pretty well. And lapping an IHS is never a bad thing now is it?

About Isopropanol... well it _felt_ like it was easier to wipe the paste off with the help of it. I know that it does pretty much nothing to the stuff, though.

[Hondacity]

this is good stuff...tried it...it sorta bonds with copper...a little sandpaper will help removing it....

1. application is easy..its liquid
2. removal is the hardest for any tim

[moogle]

It eats CPU tops!!!

I've got two syringes (makes me sound like a druggie ) of the stuff. It ate the top of my AMD Athlon 4600 X2. You'll have to void your warranty in the end as you'll have to lap the CPU to get the stuff off. Damn good temps thoughs. If you don't give a damn about the CPU go for it. My TRUE was left unharmed so don't worry about it messing your cooling solutions up.