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    Which GentechPC Thermal Paste to get?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Scionyde, Apr 29, 2018.

  1. Scionyde

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    So, I'm considering buying a Sager NP8851 from GentechPC. It looks like they offer free replacement of the thermal paste, which is cool. I'm just curious what would be best. The options are:

    -IC Diamond on CPU/GPU
    -Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra on CPU/GPU
    -CLU on CPU/IC Diamond on GPU
    -Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU/GPU
    -TGC on CPU/IC Diamond on GPU
    -Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on CPU/GPU

    Any thoughts?
     
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    TG Kryonaut on the CPU/GPU. The P950 has a tripod heatsink (for the CPU) which makes the installing liquid metal inadvisable. I can't be sure of this, but I seem to remember that liquid metals etches the dies of nvidia gpus, so I'd stick to using kryonaut.
     
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    Liquid metal reacts with and stains copper but does nothing to silicon dies and is easily wiped off with IPA.
     
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    Watch this:
     
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    What about it?
     
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    Interesting. What about the tripod heatsink makes liquid metal inadvisable, exactly?

    Thanks for the replies, both of you!
     
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    Uneven contact/pressure.
     
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