Metal thermal paste also tastes better and doesnt stick to to roof of your mouth like the silicon stuff

Having nothing but a flimsy piece of plastic preventing my motherboard from being fried would keep me up at night.

"It's not going anywhere." Famous last words.

"Phase Changing" = Apple style PR language for "It Melts"

Some say he’s still trying to get the liquid metal to spread

Back in the pentium golden days we use to take turns pissing on CPUs to cool them off

Circuit board designer here: This is stupid.

The aerospace industry already solved this for us. It's call Honeywell PTM7950, nearly identical thermal performance as liquid metal but with zero risk to your components.

Try using solder as thermal paste

Computer running on high heat Him: why does it smell like burnt plastic?

The PS5 uses something similar to this. It's a horrifying idea

Just use transparent nail polish for being protected parts of the motherboard. And dont forget deliding process under te core heatsink cap!!

I thought it’s gonna be some incredible solution. It just ended up being: let’s put something above the metal

The risk reward just seems ridiculous. Risk destroying your motherboard. Reward a tiny bit cooler in temp than normal battle tested thermal paste.

The problem with liquid metal is the gallium, it eats through a lot of the copper water blocks, dust, turning on liquid into a grime that doesn’t conduct much at all

This is why I always said that people use to much thermal paste. The paste is only there to fill the air gaps, not to replace metal to metal contact.

Thermal past works just fine I’ll keep using that.

Just a note guys but not all thermal pastes are non conductive. Make sure you check the packaging before applying so know what type you have and the risks/benefits associated

Graphite pads have been out for a while. They perform better than normal paste, are solid and clean to apply, and since they dont decay or dry out, they keep their thermal properties. Best part is that they are at most $15 and last decades.

There are also frames one can purchase. They sit snuggly around the cpu preventing overflow and can help thermal transference. It does require a very simple socket mod tho.

Why not just surround a dob of the metal stuff with the silicone stuff basically making an insulated wire to conduct the heat better without risking the metal touching the other components

Cool but the plastic is now a barrier between the metal paste and the cooler.

My freezer creates phase changing blocks of water.

They should make a new type of mobo/aio socket for watercooling that can facilitate this imo

This is the dumbest idea I've ever heard of

Hell yeah. A solution to a problem that’s already been solved, with additional risk of a new problem to solve if this solution fails. I like it.

Bro removed all bass and made the trebble as high as possible on his mic

it's going everywhere I can feel it

I haven't seen something this flimsy, unpromising, and risky in a while.

Eh. I used liquid metal successfully for nearly three years. Was very careful about the application. You only really need both sides to be wet, so it's not like it'll go anywhere once applied. But it's a pain to reapply, stains your ihs, and application has so much room for imperfection you'll never feel certain you're getting the most out of it, or whether one day it'll short something. I switched back to noctua paste after my recent coolant change and loop clean, and using the spread method I actually can't tell the difference between the paste and the LM. Temps are basically the same, and I have peace of mind knowing my next application will be simple to clean and can't hurt anything if I use too much. Worrying about TIM really IS just obsessing over the margin of error. Don't sweat it.

I’m obsessed with this!

You're destined for greatness.

I just laid a Silver-Dollar over my 12600K . Temps never go over 185 Celsius and its still worth a Buck.

No way that's keeping that all contained when in a standard upright position for long enough

My last two builds used a high-end thermal pad instead of paste (Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet). Works great & won't degrade over time.

Bro was so quick, he forgot to finish the sentence.

Arctic Silver 5 has done me well for 15 years. I think I'll keep going with that. Lol

Liquid metal. 10x the thermal conductivity. 1 degree difference in benchmarks. 90% you smoke your machine. Im all set thanks.

Honeywell just needs to release sheets of those nutty semi-phase shift pads for some easy pocket change.

Car poster 😎, really cool! I also notice in your video title, your iOS is spelled wrong. But your video is great!

I got carried away writing this, but I had fun doing the math, so I let it go. The problem with the concept of liquid metal pastes, it essentially doesn't matter outside of benchmarking and scoring. Usually the limitation isn't the interface between the Integrated Heat Spreader and the cooler block. It's not like you have a paper thin gap you are trying to fill, often the gap is fractions that thickness. Thermal conductivity measurement is W/mK or Watt per meter-Kelvin. Essentially measuring how many watts of heat a 1 meter block of material will transfer per degree kelvin difference across the distance (1m) of block. So when you have to transfer heat across a fraction of a millimeter, that W/mK number doesn't matter as much if it's 4 like most realistic figures for paste, or 60 for liquid metal. For an intel 13900, with a 1mm gap between the IHS and cooler block (20 sheets of paper), standard Arctic MX-4 can transfer a theoretical 400W of energy at a 60 degree C differential. If you have that big a mounting gap, you don't need liquid metal, you need to fix your mounting. Taking the gap to a more reasonable 0.1mm or less turns that thermal transfer for standard Arctic MX-4 up to 4,000W. You will never hit that kind of power limit before you burn up the chip. You will also be bottlenecked by literally everything else in the system before the paste is an issue. Going to liquid metal so you can theoretically transfer 60,000W sounds cool, but it's really not a factor at all for 99% of applications. Reverse the equation, yes you can see improvement by using liquid metal. It can be statistically significant, but it's not practically significant. Using the same surface area and 0.1mm gap, if you put 1000W into the IHS with Arctic MX-4, you would see a temperature differential between the IHS and cooler block of 15 degrees. Yes, using liquid metal allows you to move that same 1kW with only a 1 degree differential. But there is no case where you are dropping 1kW from a processor outside of a crazy lab test. Maxing out the 13900k at something like 300W would give you a temp drop of 4.5 degrees between the IHS and cooler. Sure, going to liquid metal would give you a 0.3 degree temp drop. But thats not really where you are going to make up thermal headroom on your build. You are going to need a better cooler that can actually dissipate that heat long before your thermal paste matters. Yes there is more to the total system dissipation, and dropping even from 4 degrees to 1 degree between the IHS and cooler block can provide more than 4 degrees drop in die temp, sometimes even up to 10-15 degrees total reduction in die temp. As you are now moving the differential between the IHS and die closer to total system differential, which results in more dissipation from the die. But that doesn't really matter outside of 1% of use cases where you are pushing the actual limitations of the system where a couple degrees crashes the system. You aren't doing that for gaming, you are doing that for benchmarking without regard for killing the system. Just buy a good air/water cooler and you will keep 20-40 degrees thermal headroom on standard thermal paste. Or replace your old paste that has stopped working correctly, that also happens and people often attribute going to liquid metal as the reason for the improvement and not the fact they replaced 5 year old thermal paste. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed doing the math for it.

This shit is terrifying, I personally could never. Feels safer just having a more intense cooling system

I’ve used this brand once. The way it was applied via instructions. Is to place it then install your cooler rather water block or air cooler then disable cooler and use speed fan to watch the cpu go into thermal then shut the system down. Once system cools remove cooler and remove plastic. Notice I said I used it once. It’s great works great. But you gotta reach down and grab you marbles and hope for the best.

Sweet! I'm gonna use this on all my electronics that are exposed to a lot of bumps/vibrations!

Thermal paste isn’t necessarily meant to conduct heat super well, it’s also meant to displace air which conducts heat horribly, ensuring good contact between the cold plate and the IHS.

you literally showed it doesnt fucking work, and then say its future? :D

Bro is Shakespeare when talking about thermal paste

For those wondering, the metal he's using is called gallium.

Meanwhile plastic starts to melt and you know your motherboard screwed

The Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet works great without any mess to clean.

i used liquid metal on my red devil 6900xt vertically mounted (coated around the socket with clear nail polish) lasted about 2 years under heavy use, then the temps started running super high. spent hours cleaning it to put paste on and all is well again.

What I might do is figure out what size dollop you'd need for half coverage with silicone, the but that amount of solder in the middle, then encircle it with silicone so you can ensure increased efficiency and mitigate the risk of solder leaking out, only silicone on the edge would leak out.

Thermal paste? Real homies use toothpaste.

When you discover that gallium is solid at room temp and liquid when warm lol

This is why I always make sure I have some spare Uranium

I still using the old white ceramic termal paste without problems, cheap and good

This is the dumbest, most impractical shit in my life

I have always used and will continue to use silver infused silicone thermal paste My wife did point out while watching this video that you could put a thin layer of silicone paste around the outside of the ihs and then the liquid metal in the middle so as to achieve the same function without the goofy plastic tag

This has been around for years now. To get the stuff to melt, you have to work the cpu with no cooling, like turn the pump off or cover the cooler with a bag. It works very well, but not something you want to use on any PGA equipment, it's hard to remove the cooler/water block. Even on an LGA, it's recommended to get it a bit hot to make it let go. I have one I got for an i7 2600K, and never got around to using because my custom loop was already doing well, still have it though.

Seems practical enough

Be careful if there is any aluminum in your system at all. If the galium touched the aluminum, it would corrode it. Not only that, but galium can remove the oxidization layer on the aluminum, which could produce hydrogen gas if any water or condensation touches it. Honestly, those facts alone don't concern me as much as the fact that galium acts like water and is very difficult to 'smoosh'. So you would be getting this metal everywhere. Plus, galium melts at temperatures higher than 83°F. So you could cause a lot of damage by leaving your hardware in the sun too long.

...did this mf just say to put a piece of plastic around my CPU?

You could put the thermal paste in a square as the outline and inside the metal one

What if you mix small metal granules with your thermalpaste

Thermal paste conducts heat well yes, but it's primary function is to remove air pockets between the CPU IHS and the cooler. You see, they CPU and cooler surface may look perfectly flat and smooth to us but if you zoom in microscopically you'll see lots of grooves and imperfections.

Didn’t look like it was spreading too well though.. Maybe needs more pressure from an actual bolt on cooler.

Phase changing like Hughies Dad 💀

bro made perfect loop and he though we didnt noticed

Honestly I just recommend the Thermal Grizzly graphite pads to people who want to build their own PC but get scared of adding the paste, it's clean, easy to apply, and doesn't require any replacement due to time as it doesn't degrade, unlike thermal pastes. If you choose the crush style pads you can get heat transfer roughly the same as the best pastes out there, and the pads have the added bonus of completely removing the concern of hotspots as the heat travels horizontally far faster than any paste and thus spreads the heat across the entire heatsink interface to improve heat transfer.

Use the silicone on the outside to stop liquid metal from running outwards.

I hope this goes mainstream

i love this guy

If its solid at room temp. There will be a gap during installation. And when it melts the will have a slight wiggle so it won’t be seated properly

This is really cool! Likely the phase changer is using bismuth as its substrate. Which is non-toxic. Unlike liquid metal compound using gallium; Which is highly antagonistic to aluminum and tin. It'll unseat your SMDs if it contacts the motherboard.

I've been running liquid metal in both of my computers for about a year and a half and if you use the right techniques and precautions it's pretty safe. I use liquid electrical tape around the CPU socket and then I get fish tank filtering media..... it's black and squishy and I cut out square and then I put it around the CPU... So that way if any liquid metal leaks it's caught by that media and then if it gets past that then the liquid electrical tape stops the rest.

Another trick: use gallium as termal paste, he is very healty for your motherboard 💪💪 (Please don't do that 💀💀)

"Ohh look it's a metal submarine.... I bet I can make a submarine out of bread."

What is the music in the background ??

IDK if that helps? It's like putting another metal layer on the CPU, and then you have the plastic on this. If someone as silly as you cuts the plastic and then mount the PC horizontally, the metal would fell off. I believe it shouldn't be cut, rather the metal should be covered in plastic. In this case, we're back to the initial issue - it's like just putting a plastic on the CPU itself, which is metal. Why do you need another layer! Also, the main purpose of the heatsink is to fill the gaps so that there's more contact area. The silicone based solution isn't great, but this solution isn't also going to be great either.

At first I thought this video was a satire on some guy that forgot to remove the sticker before installing the heatsink and then brought it to his shop for repair

Boron Nitride conducts heat like Diamond and doesn't conduct electricity

Legend said that he is still trying to get the liquid metal to the processor

Someone is going to steam mercury and lose their proverbial marbles like the Mad Hatter.

Anti-seize it is a paste that has metal in it, it works as good as liquid metal with the control of a paste. And, as it is made for car engines, will not dry out or break down due to the heat.

Been around for over 10 years. Just never caught on because it's like 15 bucks per application. That said, used it for about 8 years straight without ever changing it, worked perfectly. Brand is indigo Xtreme. IF you decide to buy and install it, you have to do a few extra hoops on install, unlike normal thermal paste. Make sure your cpu is laying flat, and any fans/pumps are turned off, then do a CPU torture test. You'll know it's done right when your cpu instantly drops by like 50c even without the fans. Then just do a quick extra screw down on all 4 corners of the cpu heatsink to make sure you didn't get a gap when it melted.

Viscosity is important as well. Noctuas thermal paste is worse at conducting heat but still conducts more heat because it has the perfect viscosity for the cooler. It fills all the air gaps.

Arctic Silver Eye…love that feeling

Metal is really good. I've been using my leftover thermal paste as personal lube.

Use as little paste as possible. The best heat transfer occurs when the chip is touching the heat sink directly, the paste is only there to fill any tiny uneven spots, it is Not a gasket.

Ah. Yes. Just casually rub gallium on your aluminum heatsink. Rip.

I use IC Diamond 24 Carat 4.8 Gram Thermal Compound last for along time I always my PC running 24-7 and still running good for 3 years already

Man, I waited for him to squeeze the metal

Love this

Unless this stuff drops temperatures by over 10 to 15° I don't feel it's worth it

I've seen some graphene thermal pads maybe worth checking out

The silicone paste lore only grows...

Vertically mounted CPUs are laughing right now

Petition for mryeester to use solder as thermal paste 👇

I used copper slip one time works really well

Would thermalpaste on the borders and metal in middle work?