Why you shouldn't use Liquid Metal...

Anybody know where I can get one of those NES style mouse he's using???

You used copper dumbass sorry for the word but Liquid metal is fantastic if you know what you're doing. Now for laptops buy a thin nickel sheet and have it above your CPU it'll negate any corrosion and allow the liquid metal to last a lot longer

Wth the hair under your lip looks glued on

My processor i7 4790k. gaming Temps are in the 85-90°C rang. reduced my temperatures best solution liquid metal or thermal paste?

You don't really need to remove it as it becomes part of the dye and part of the heat sink. I don't think you applied it correctly initially, or that heat sink is low purity copper.

i used liquid metal for almost 3 years on my ps4 pro. didn't opened yet but i play everyday and still it stays cool and nice much much better than it was on stock paste.

Youre not supposed to keep liquid metal untouched for a year...

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I'm sorry but gallium starts evaporating at 134,8 °C and it has thoroughly proven to not effect other metals and many other tests show it does actually work long term (one year) so all it can be is that it was badly applied
My sources math, wikipedia and the case study from gamers nexus
Edit: after further research I have found a tests that show that gallium can effect copper so that's probably what is happening here

You can't rip it apart and then say ohhh, it's "broken".
I had coollaboratory's liquid metal paste on my i7-920 for 10 years, OC @4.2 GHz, and it still works perfectly.

I used a razor blade came right off

Which one did you use thermal grizzly or cool laboratory?

You remind me of Will Smith from the Foo Show, combined with the energy of the guy from Donut Media

LMAO... sanded the die... tells people not to do it...

I've seen another reviewer that did a long term stress test of liquid metal and didn't have any degredation over a year of constant use. The amount of corrosion is actually kind of surprising compared to what other's have experienced.

maybe you should inform yourself better on liquid metal before doing stuff like that.
Liquid metal migrating into copper that's not nickel plated, is nothing new. You can't scrub it off, and unlike thermal paste, you shouldn't.
When temperatures get worse, caused by the liquid metal migrating into the nickel, you just apply new liquid metal. Repeat that 2 or 3 times and it will stop drying out, when the nickel is sufficiently plated with the liquid metal.

If your messing around with liquid metal your best off using nickel plated copper. Less issues.

Its been proven that 'dryed up' liquid metal does not degrade the cooling performance.
infact i think its called plating when the LM is 'dryed' or looks like its fused with the cooling block.
and this could also mean that it formed a protective layer for that specific cooling block area.
just beware that if this happens to you to clean the area a few times before reapplying LM.

I don't have a degree at all, but I'm a BIM Manager, and I wear the hat of the local IT "person" at work. A degree is great, but I know a great deal about hardware and software because it interests me, and I've been doing it for 15 years. I'm very fortunate. My professional situation is not typical.

Brasso might have been better then sanding.

Never sand your CPU or heatsink. You'll just ruin it. No turning back.

What repair kit is he using?

Liquid metal sucks worst stuff to work with.

Okay so there's a few flaws with your video, first of all you should absolutely not use sandpaper on your cooler, that will completely remove the factory finish, second of all the gallium cannot "dry off", gallium is an element, not a chemical so if it did "dry off" it would mean that the gallium completely vapourised which would realistically take thousands of years, not 1. What's most likely happened is a chemical reaction. And I don't even want to get started on the fact that you sanded the bare cpu die, it's a miracle that the laptop booted.

dissimilar metals never play nice together. We got a bunch of noobs just applying stuff without knowing the consequences.

I'm a german software engineer/architect, hardware hobbyist and computer enthusiast.
Don't know about mr. fischer but you are doing great.
Yeah liquid metal needs to be applied multiple times and NEVER be used if theres gallium inside!
There's gallium free liquid metal available. There's even liquid metal pads but the burnIn process is a bit tricky.

PS: Dear people never polish your cpu/gpu/heatsink. I also don't recommend die lapping.
In this video Timmy had to polish the remnants^^

I wouldn't have used a sand paper, I would use polishing compound...

Lol do you seriously discuss haters' comments in your videos? I would be ashamed of myself too

Watched it for 4 mins, then just closed the tab...

personally think at 8.99 for liquid metal that does about 10 times, then youre doing cpu and gpu , and that lasts you about 10 months lets say, thats 5 x 10 months, which is over 4 years , im not going to be complaining about applying it when it arrives thats for sure ! , two mins work with 1200 grit and youre back to new application again

It's always the Germans😂😂😂

that looks like some of the shit i tried scrapeing off of a 360 i repasted

Pfuscher is the word you are looking for.

Well obviously you do not use liquid metal on a copper surface. Gallium in thermal paste reacts with copper. Ions move to copper from thermal paste and thermal paste imbeds itself into copper making new alloy. This is why stuff like this happens and why people had created this myth that you need to change your liquid metal thermal paste frequently. Original Intel nickel covered copper IHS largely avoids this problem, because nickel draw electrons from thermal paste a lot weaker. They still make a new alloy, but it is a lot weaker reaction which does not ruin thermal paste, but still leaves an ugly, dirty look on the IHS.

This video gave me an idea to look up for liquid thermal solutions which would play nice with copper. I found liquid copper paste, will have to investigate this solution further. To me it is very important, because most cooler solutions are copper based. You can even replace base Intel IHS with a better custom one made out of copper. Putting a custom interface with liquid metal without this nasty maintenance might be an interesting experiment.

do you think it is better for me to apply liquid metal in my 5800x? I have a noctua d15 heatsink with obviously noctua thermal paste and while I play I always remain around 70/75 degrees c.

Just reapply liquid metal over the stain which is actually a new alloy layer. Eventually after a certain amount of applications, the Copper will stop absorbing and you won't have to repaste for many years.

My GTX 980 Ti has been rocking Conductonaut for 3.5 years and my delidded i7 3770K has had it on both sides of the IHS for the same amount of time without ever needing to reapply. The 980 Ti has been shunt modded and still never sees above 73° and the CPU has been at 5.0GHz @1.455v for 2 years and still doesn't get above 82°. It's all about providing ample liquid metal when on direct copper as copper will absorb just a little bit of it over the course of a couple months. If you don't account for absorption of course it will dry out.

My question is who in the hell had the idea that using liquid metal as thermal paste was a good idea?

Awwww, fatty got his feelings hurt by some hate mail. 🤣

im scared of liquid metal its just so so wrong it should be baned i want to buy laptop this year and i found one but it hase liquid metal its jus wrong i duno soon ill get it ill put silicone thermal paste i have loooots of it so still will need to tear down every month or 2 for dust and evefy time put liquid metal???? NO TO LIQUID METAL ITS CRAP!!!! 🤮🤮🤮

wait wtf no thermal paste? just puted like that? no nothing???? wtf im confused!!!!

what a tool, gets 5 to 10 degrees in heat reduction, but because it doesnt look pretty(on a part you see once a year) he reapplies that peanut butter like thermal paste.

One quick glance and I’d say user error. You didn’t put enough LM on there to begin with, imo

yeah, this is why you should put a hard nickel plate on anything copper that you want to apply liquid metal to.

Complaining too much.

I´m german and he means "Pfuscher". That´s mostly used for people who do their work not good enough or not proessional because they rush or are lazy