Question Best thermal paste for pump out ?

[ILI-BIG]

Hi. I applied Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut on both CPU and GPU. Temperatures were great but couple of days after the GPU and CPU become very hot. I disassembled laptop and i saw thermal paste move away from the CPU die. What thermal paste should i use?

 

[faalin]

Thermal paste isn't meant to be like some thick peanut butter layer between the core and cooler, its only meant to fill very small cracks and imperfections from the manufacturing process.

If your wanting to stay with Thermal Grizzly i would move to their Kryonaut, if not then KPx

 

[ILI-BIG]

Thermal paste isn't meant to be like some thick peanut butter layer between the core and cooler, its only meant to fill very small cracks and imperfections from the manufacturing process.

I didnt put too much thermal paste

 

[PC Tailor]

Thermal paste doesn't matter a whole bunch. Unless you start talking liquid metal cooling, which isn't needed in many circumstances, you can even cool a CPU using toothpaste (not that you would)!

The application is usually more important than the paste itself, I wouldn't worry about what thermal paste you use, just get a pea size dot on the CPU then evenly screw the cooler down. I tend to just always use Arctic MX4 because it is pretty standard and easy to get.

In short, don't go looking for thermal paste alternatives, just focus on applying it appropriately.

 

[ILI-BIG]

Thermal paste doesn't matter a whole bunch. Unless you start talking liquid metal cooling, which isn't needed in many circumstances, you can even cool a CPU using toothpaste!

The application is usually more important than the paste itself, I wouldn't worry about what thermal paste you use, just get a pea size dot on the CPU then evenly screw the cooler down. I tend to just always use Arctic MX4 because it is pretty standard and easy to get.

In short, don't go looking for thermal paste alternatives, just focus on applying it appropriately.

I m saying again. I put thermal paste normally and spread paste all the surface
Also toothpaste is stupid idea for cooling. It can damage components

 

[kerberos_20]

for direct die, mx-6 is pretty decent

 

[PC Tailor]

I m saying again. I put thermal paste normally and spread paste all the surface
Also toothpaste is stupid idea for cooling. It can damage components

I don't think you understood the premise of the point. I'm not saying toothpaste is a good cooling solution, but what I am saying is that the thermal paste itself won't make a huge difference. When you say you spread it all the surface? Did you actually manually spread it? If so, don't, just let the cooler do it.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-performance-benchmark,3616-19.html they even tested toothpaste here just to demonstrate the point.

If you don't like the one you have, you can probably get any other one and it will be fine. If you think the other one did not work correctly, it was either inappropriately applied or you perhaps had a bit of a bad batch (which I've had on MX5 before).

 

[faalin]

Give this a watch

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWVVTY63hc
as long as the thermal past is not conductive, you could unload and entire 1g tube onto the cpu and be fine.

When you tighten the cooler down to the cpu it will squeeze out 90% of the past and then as you do heat and cool cycles it will pump out the rest that is not needed. Once again, thermal paste is only there to fill in the imperfections in the machining of the two surfaces and replace what would be air that is trapped in said microscopic scratches with thermal transfer material.