Re:How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
by xxs on Sunday April 07, 2019 @07:14PM
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> I haven’t tried them myself,
you should. kryonaut and conductonaut are both great. However I'd not recommend liquid metal (gallium) for daily use in a laptop with low tension force. I use liquid metal on delidded ones and kryounat elsewhere.
Re:How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
by darkpuma on Sunday April 07, 2019 @05:54PM
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Is there no chance of that gallium alloy amalgamating with other metals it might encounter? It seems really sketchy, but I guess it's probably not since I've not heard horror stories.
Re:How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
by xxs on Sunday April 07, 2019 @07:21PM
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Gallium eats aluminum like butter[0]:. Copper is safe, nickel plated copper is ok as well (might tarnish though)... solder joins are dead however.
One should be very careful if that stuff can leak.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k919f7Qi4es&vl=en <--random video
I don’t think that thermal grizzly products are a bad place to start looking. I haven’t tried them myself, but GamersNexus are advertising/recommending them and I do trust them.