Can I use this thermal compound?

Zolltane

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Hello,
I just stumbled across this thermal compound - "Phobya liquid metal Paste LM". According to some reviews it's the best thermal compound as it does not contain any non-metal substances and thus is conducts heat much better.

Other than the price the drawbacks are that it conducts electricity as well so it can short hardware if applied improperly and is also not suitable for use with aluminum heatsinks (no idea why).

So I am currently running a 4790K machine with a Noctua NH-D15 cooler and two R9 290's cooled with two ARCTIC Accelero Hybrid II-120.

I just wanted to ask if it was a good idea to swap the regular Noctua thermal compound on the CPU and GPUs with the Phobya's liquid metal compound? Is it safe and is it compatible with those coolers? AFAIK both coolers have copper bases and the CPU cap is also copper with an outer layer of something (nickel?).

Thanks in advance.
 
I tried it once and it was a complete pain the the arse to apply, it doesn't spead like you think it would it kind of just rolls, like balls of hot solder. . Added to the fact it is conductive I soon cleaned it off, and went back to NTH1. People mainly use it for delided chips as far as I no. Cleaning it off wasn't a simple task either. I'd stick to the NTH1 mate.
 
i dont think you can use it near aluminium either it would usually eat through it and turn it in to the consitancy of damp cardboard.
 
Yeah if it's gallium based, don't let it touch aluminium, it quite literally eats it.

I've got some gallium based liquid ultra on my cpu, it's amazing stuff but yeah you do have to be careful.

Also, with regards 'conductivity' if you can't handle putting paste on a cpu with splodging it on electrically sensitive things and shorting them out, in my honest opinion, you shouldn't be doing it at all.
 
I had a real bad experience with this kind of stuff, it killed my £200 nforce board back then when it shot out across the board. unless you have steady hands and your good at not applying too much pressure when squeezing it out you should be ok but I would stick to normal tim. not worth risking killing your components for an extra couple of degrees.
 
I had a real bad experience with this kind of stuff, it killed my £200 nforce board back then when it shot out across the board. unless you have steady hands and your good at not applying too much pressure when squeezing it out you should be ok but I would stick to normal tim. not worth risking killing your components for an extra couple of degrees.

Like I said.. if you aren't capable of not screwing this up.. I wouldn't be doing *any* thermal compound changes tbh.. if you don't have the kind of fine-motor control required to squeeze goop out of a syringe... perhaps Tim'ing cpu's isn't for you!
 
I learnt that the hard way now I stick to using tim that my big sausage fingers and appalling motor skills cant mess up.

SuB I am loving the iphone quote made me chuckle to myself
 
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