Which Thermal Paste to buy and apply (Traditional and Liquid Metal)

Yeah its more like CM Maker V1 and not the flat tube V2 version. But CryoFuze is easy to spread and in the o version whenever I was using spatula I felt like a glue preventing for a even thin spread.

 

I was fallowing this thread closely before I bought my new laptop and have at home both TFX and SYY-157. I haven't tried TFX yet, repasted multiple times during first days due to finding the best way how to counter the heat from the laptop. Now it will be soon 3months since my last assemble with SYY-157 and the temp are more less the same. I wanted to say that in my point of view anyone who is taking care about the cooling his laptop will clean it lets say every year and the heatsink needs to be disassembled and repasted. Therefore there is no point that paste will needs to last longer time?? Anyway thanks everyone here for their advices and points, for now SYY-157 is the winner for me.

 

I have reached the point where I no longer need to repaste. Temperatures have been stable since I repasted 6-9 months ago. I still regularly disassemble the laptop to clean the heatsink fins though. Just re-lubricated the fans as well yesterday when cleaning the heatsink.

 

I repasted my laptop after 4 years. Just cleaned the fans and there was no difference in temps. I used CM Maker Revision 1 and Revision 2.

 

How do you lubricate fans? I couldn't see any entry point to even think about it to get there with some spray..

 

I have to take off the whole heatsink to take off the fans, I meant that in this way..

 

Never use sprays to lubricate fans. I used motor oil designed for use in high rpm drone motors.

 

Where do you apply the oil drop? Mine are sealed from both sides. I have never heard that needs to be done or some kind of maintenance needed.. Here is the link for the fans.. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003384828809.html?spm=a2g0o.9042311.0.0.4d4e4c4dxplipX

 

Mine just slide out of the motor hub. Then I add a small drop of lubricant into the hole and lightly coat the fan shaft.

 

I saw that the upcoming 12th gen MSI GS77 stealth notebooks are using something that they call Phase-Change Liquid Metal Pads:


It melts at 58C and is made of tin, indium, and bismuth. It is supposed to be easy to remove and not suffer from leakage or crystallization.

I am guessing this is something like the Coollaboratory Liquid MetalPads ?
https://www.coollaboratory.com/product/coollaboratory-liquid-metalpad-noebook/

I have read older comments about them with mixed results. But it seems to be about the standard version without the copper foil spacers - I imagine this would make a big difference for laptops. Has anyone tried the version with the copper foil? What are your results and your experience with them?

 

A simple google search gave me this: https://www.liquidmetalalloy.com/liquid-metal-thermal-pad
Has the same thermal properties MSI suggested/advertised.

EDIT: Also found a site/company who manufacturers all thermal pastes/pads etc..
https://www.thermalmgt.com/

 

Yeah, I saw the same ones. But I don't think that they are commercially available for regular consumers? I was just curious about getting something similar for my GS66 with a 11800H. The coollaboratory liquid metalpad are the only ones I found. I was wondering why they no one uses them, they seem like they would be a good fit for laptops. I have read that some have problems with the burnIn-process for the collaboratory metalpads.

I'm assuming from the marketing material that MSI provides, that the version that they use should work better than thermal paste(?)

 

As you probably know the forum goes offline in some days, what pity. There are so many useful postings here and most of it goes down forever. Is there any other forum (preferably notebook related) with a thermal paste thread?

 

https://www.laptopforum.net/index.php

Some users including myself have already migrated here and have started recreating the content here on NBR forums. We have a thermal paste thread there now. A lot of the thread titles are exact copies of the thread titles here.

 

A little OT but are the main contributors willing to also port the thread on the other forum that Hiew and Reciever opened up? ...I'm already jumped on both but it would be nice to know what the main contributors of each thread will do.

 

Field's metal? ~62C melting point ( bismuth, indium, tin )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field's_metal