Collaboratory Liquid Ultra or IC Diamond Thermal Compound on laptop

Buying a 14" , 20mm thick laptop with 7700 and 1060.

The re-seller offers both Collaboratory Liquid Ultra and IC Diamond Thermal Compound on both CPU/GPU. And even an option to select both? I am not sure how that will work/works?

Which is the better option (either or both), especially long term (4ish years) since I wont be re pasting myself, and will be traveling too.

 

If the heatsink makes good contact CLU is the way to go! But you either can't do anything wrong with ICD. It's literally a Jack of all Trades paste.

BUT: i would never trust someone you don't know making a proper paste job. That has to be done by yourself, if you want to keep the piece in mind.

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Agreed with second point above. CLU is conductive and certain precautions need to be taken such as masking surrounding components so that the paste does not have the ability to cause a short.

Perhaps the option to choose both means they put CLU on one component like the CPU and ICD on the GPU? You may want to check with the seller.

I am assuming there's a price tag to these paste options as well because usually they are considered upgrades. You may just want to leave it with stock paste, see how it goes and upgrade later on. It's not as hard as you may think and with the amount of disassembly videos online nowadays, anyone can do it.

 

Personally i would go for CLU. If its a laptop that thin with those components, (i'm guessing the new Blade, updated MSI GE/GS series, Asus Strix or a Clevo barebones) liquid metal would be my personal choice. Both these compounds are targeted to different users to say. IC i would say its towards people who want a long lasting compound that also performs well. Interesting note is that people who's laptop heatsinks arent that flat (Clevo's in particular), will use IC for its thickness and ability to spread properly even under not so flat heatsinks. CLU and liquid metal in general is more geared towards the enthusiasts crowd. No compromises in performance and willing to take the risk of leakage or spill out.

This is how i split the two types of compound (pastes and liquid metal) with users according to what i have observed on forums. Please correct me if i am wrong

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If the option is available, get the CLU. I have it on my Clevo, and the CPU idles in the mid-upper 30s and never gets above 75 under an intense gaming load. It gets into the 80s when running an AIDA64 benchmark that taxes the processor, RAM, and GPU, but since that's not a realistic usage case, it doesn't really count as far as I'm concerned.

 

it all boils down to how good the CPU heatsink makes contact.

On my Clevo P870DM/DM3 I had a not so great heatsink so CLU was actually worse. IC Diamond being thicker made better contact with the CPU in that heatsink so it actually gave me lower temps.

On my MSI GT73VR Titan Pro, the heatsink is much better and thus Liquid Ultra was better.

Which reseller are you buying it from? can you have them try CLU first and if temps were not good try IC Diamond?

 

Sounds like either HID or Xotic. Xotic started offering clu on their configurations

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Its a Gigabyte Aero 14v7 and the service is from GentechPC

 

Like @Phoenix said: ask them if they can put CLU on it and run some benches to monitor the heat output.

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Honestly, I would go for ICD on both... CLU is great but there are risks of frying your computer when using it... On the other hand, ICD has no such risks and if your heatsink contact sucks, can't ask for anything better to sort that out.. I had ICD on my Asus G73JH for 3.5 years and never needed a repaste!

 

CLU FTW!
If the vendor is applying it they would hopefully be making sure the HS contact is worth them offering it to begin with. I'd make sure they can garuantee that before getting it.

 

If they don't then it won't be worth having that option available to the consumer. It would end up being a waste. Maybe if they find out that the heatsink does not have good contact with the die, maybe we could request them to do the sanding technique to flatten it out for proper contact