Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Thermal Grease - 1 Gram Set + 3 Applicator + Spatulas & Pads - Liquid Metal Thermal Paste for Cooling The CPU, GPU Value Pack

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so have an older gpu (EVGA rtx 2060) and i was having loud fan noise and high temps. i figured it was time to pull the gpu card apart and clean it and replace both thermal paste and thermal pads. tl;dr HIGHLY RECOMMEND! surprisingly, my old thermal pads were not dry and hard, and the texture of feel of the old and new pads were very similar. i do not think that changing the thermal pads made a significant difference, but i did it out of caution and because i was already there replacing and cleaning things. on to the good stuff! i had a silver metal plate for my thermal interface (sadly, EVGA didn't get the memo about copper interfaces when my card was manufactured) and i tested it with sodium hydroxide (common in drain cleaning products; look online) and vinegar to ensure it wasn't aluminum or magnesium... so i assume it was nickel plated or other. sodium hydroxide reacts very obviously to aluminum (though it may take up to a minute or so for the reaction to really get going; don't inhale the fumes!), and conductonaut will corrode aluminum... so make sure your thermal interface isn't aluminum! grizzly does really good about pointing this out both on their product page and in the packaging, but i wanted to mention how i checked (because it wasn't obvious that my silver thermal interface wasn't aluminum). it very much reminded me of how mercury looks in videos... or the T1000 from the terminator series. at first, when trying to apply the conductonaut (to both the thermal interface, and the GPU core), it stuck to the provided q-tip and didn't spread around the surfaces. for whatever reason, it took a minute of just moving the q-tip around before the liquid metal broke surface tension and began actually spreading liquid metal across the surface. definitely take your time here and make sure it's even applied to the surface without any gaps. also, follow the instructions to make sure you do not apply too much. i did attach the heat sink to the base plate, after applying the liquid metal, and then had to take things apart again to replace thermal pads to the proper thickness. when i checked the thermal interface i did see signs of contact but also did not see signs of any gaps in the liquid metal... nor did i see any signs of excess liquid metal application. just a thin, non-liquid flowing looking, application is enough. if it looks like your pushing around a puddle, you probably applied too much. with the new thermal pads, and conductonaut liquid metal on the gpu core, my temps and fan speeds dropped from loud and 100% at about 80deg C on full load to about 20-30% and quiet at about 64deg C on full load! (main comparison is satisfactory as high/ultra settings) ROCK ON GRIZZLY! very impressed! will be doing my cpu with AIO cooler + standard thermal paste to liquid metal upgrade next!

This is the only brand of thermal paste that my husband uses on both his and my computers. We've had no issues with it, and it keeps the temps stable.

I was very surprised by how well this works. A gaming laptop with an Intel i9 and nvidia 3070, hits thermal throttle at idle, anywhere from 70-90 Celsius. Once replaced it note idles at around 45, and games no longer get thermal throttled by the CPU. Replaced stock thermal paste on both CPU and GPU.

Excellent product for my project - Re did my CPU and GPU. fantastic product!