Liquid Pro

Anyone know if i can use liquid pro for my CPU/GPU?

The Liquid Pro is metal compound and conducts electricity, most other pasts insulate and often for a reason.

I have a 940 and 7970

 

Isn't conductivity bad for laptops??

 

I wouldn't. It's really runny and it is Gallium based. If that touches the aluminium (silver parts) on your heatsink it will react and start eating its way through it and cause all kinds of issues. Not to mention if you spill it on your motherboard you might short it out.

Other pastes are better for laptops such as Gelid Extreme or PK-1. I use IC Diamond.

 

i use Diamond, and have read loads about compounds today

Just bought Glid extreeme after reading [eXtreme-roundup] 26 Thermal Compounds tested - hwbot.org

 

i used cooler master xtreme fusion x1

it gave me pretty awesome results

 

Most of the tests ive read shows slight differences in best result.
The only 2013 test i found from the link had Gelid and JunPus at top, but other tests score Gelid lower and the Arctic highest.
Ive started having slight issues about temperature in my computer again (about a year after pasting in the CPU) and have had to remove OC and slightly elevate computer to cope with temperatures.

 

Your spike in temperatures could be because there is some dust build up in your heatsink/fans. Consider cleaning those without a repaste. Might help.

 

Did it 2 weeks ago, and it helped a bit, but still running a bit high. Still can close down in heavy load with no elevation no OC.

Have invested in new GPU2 fan since the old has been out for a while, hoping it will help a bit.
Will look into how to transfer heat from CPU heatsink to GPU2 heatsink, perhaps make copper links between them.
Plus i bought a "fantray" for alienware with 4 fans on correct spots with external power. (dont have to draw USB power ) Might have a look at getting a airfilter for the "fantray" to remove some of the dust from the air beeing blown into computer.

Have bought the new compound just in case i have to re-paste soon.
(Also got me another GTX disk to be able to run RAID disks in my computer. )

 

Let us know how that goes, I personally use Arctic Silver.

 

MX-4 is what I usually use. It's right up at the top in terms of competitors (really, the margin of error with all of this is so big you can't really rank them individually) but it has the advantage of not needing any curing time, as well as not being electrically conductive.

 

+1 for MX-4,very good temps with minimal fuss.

 

Conductivity is not problem for gpu as each gpu is grounded in alienware laptops (simple current leak will give static colours on the LCD) but still alienware gpu's are very sensitive. CPU I won't suggest.

Bone can get away with it, if applied very carefully but Galium is not good anywhere near aluminium, so it's automatically a no no.

As suggested mx4 and Ic diamond are very good and available readily as well.

 

i second this, that's what i use too

Edit, about the arctic silver, it is slightly capacitive, i would keep it away from the surface mounted components on a gpu/cpu