This WAY of applying Liquid Metal to your laptop is AMAZING !!!
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Published 2020-04-17
This is the Gigabyte Aero 15. It has an AMOLED display by Samsung, an i7 6 core CPU, and the Nvidia 2070 RTX Max Q.
As you might know, liquid metal is great, it has more than 6 times better hit transfer capabilities than any other thermal paste out there. It’s problem, however, is that it is made out of metal, which means that it is electric conducive. If for any reason it touches the motherboard or any other component, it could potencially damage your computer.
Therefore if you’re careful, and your warranty is about to end (because this will void the warranty of you laptop), the process I show you will minimize the risk by applying the right amount of liquid metal on the limited surface. This way, there won’t be any excess that could fall of the junction.
By doing this, I was able to decrease the temperature of the graphic’s card by 9 degree Celsius and 11 degree Celsius on the CPU. This has been my case anyway. So if your laptop is even older than mine, you could decrease the temperature even more because the thermalpaste will probably be dried or fairly deteriorated.
Please make sure the heatsink is not aluminum because the liquid metal we are going to be using contains gallium, and it literally destroys the aluminum.
You can buy this Liquid Metal on Amazon:
www.amazon.es/Thermal-Grizzly-Conductonaut-73W-Com…
All Comments (21)
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Engineering tip: the number adjacent to each screw indicates the ORDER in which you should tighten the screws.
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This is genius but you seriously have some balls for not putting down some conformal coating. On a desktop you can get away without using a conformal coating but on a laptop that moves around and is prone to shock impacts it’s a huge, huge risk to not use it.
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Genius, thankyou will be sure to try this method.
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I have seen some people install a foam barrier on their laptops with Liquid Metal. I know it may not be necessary but I would install some kind of dam because laptops get held at many odd angles and I am scared it will leak and fry components.
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That's a great idea. Thanks for the share.
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Great help man. Thanks
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Informative way of determining contact surface, thank you
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thanks for this video brother
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Good video really helped me put lquid thermel paste!
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Should keep some electrical tape around the die just to keep it safe from leaks
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This is nice and cheap way. The best way is deep cleaning and put conformal coating on micro components, you can use kapton tape to for more protect ;)
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Damn. He is genius. Thump up!
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really amazing and daring. I own a AERO 15x 9.. does that mean that my heat sink is the same as you?
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The title: NOT A CLICK-BAIT.... I was so hoping I would ever be able to say this in my lifetime.... This way IS awesome! (Just at the midpoint now where He flipper over to reveal the contact area such as to mask the remainder. I am sure everyone watching this should already know that liquid metal is NOT supposed to touch any of your components such as to not short circuit/roast your board.
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Get rid of the music.
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On the lesser powerful laptops this rubber limiter presents already Don’t know if they need that but it’s just nice it allows doing that already
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What thermal pads were you using? What's the thickness?
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Hi! Thank you for your video. I just bought myself an Aero 17 HDR XD and am wondering about long term viability of your method. May I ask, since its been a year, how did your solution pan out? It would be great to hear how things turn out in the long run. Thank you again from Vancouver! :-)
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Guys, shall I put tape and coating on my cpu when I add liquid metal or just tape?
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Dont forget to give an update video to see what's the effect of LM on heatsink after several months 👍
