My laptop has been cleaned and new thermal material / paste has been reapplied however there appears to be a shortage of Thermal Grizzly’s Conductornaut Extreme so my only choice has been to use the regular Conductornaut liquid metal. The extreme version doesn’t contain Tin which is added to reduce the melting point of the alloy mix, in other words the extreme version is not as fluid like at lower temperatures.
Using Arctic MX-4 To Make A Seal
I have done this but don’t have any images to show as I made a terrible mistake on the first attempt by using too much which ended up covering the entire heatsink and CPU when I reattached the heatsink so it got very messy. My final attempt was a thin bead around the CPU DIE and another thin bead on the foam seal of the heatsink.
Testing The New Liquid Metal And Arctic MX-7
Here are the results with the changes and it is clear that compared to Arctic MX-6 liquid metal does a much better job at keeping the CPU cooler. I have run the same test as previously using 2 games, Once Human and Robocop Rogue City.
Once human Liquid metal Test (New)
Once Human Arctic MX6 Test (Old)
Robocop Liquid Metal Test (New)
Robocop Arctic MX-6 Test (Old)
Overall the laptop is back to max performance on the CPU cooling and I will see how long the Liquid metal maintains performance along with the GPU / Arctic MX-7. In terms of the CPU frequency / temperatures and performance with liquid metal it can now sustain 5GHz without much issue and remains under 75 DegC, (this is also with the Llano V12 Cooling pad at 300RPM), which is a good result.
Default Factory settings with -80mV Voltage Offset
For further baseline testing I also have the laptop running default settings just to see how it runs compared to the above. This is essentially with all 16 E-Cores active, HT and the CPU left to run max boost on the P-Cores with the Llano V12 cooling pad at 300RPM.
