"Holy acidic thermal paste Batman!"

Seven7Thirty30

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Check out this article. For those of you who are thinking of buying Coollaboratory Flussigmetall, read this first!

http://www.frostytech.com/permalink.cfm?NewsID=46586

 

millhouse

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Holy crap! Thats awesome! I mean not for the guy, but what it did to it. WOW... i gotta get my hands of some of that (looks at stock aluminum heatsink) ...this is gonna be fun!

 

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Incredible. I was thinking the same thing. This stuff can be fun!

But.. yea. What do AMD and Intel coat their heatspreaders with, Tin?

 

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Yuriman said:

Incredible. I was thinking the same thing. This stuff can be fun!

But.. yea. What do AMD and Intel coat their heatspreaders with, Tin?

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Ha, that sure is a good question to ask. Hey, at least you wouldn't have to worry about cutting the heat spreader off, just apply some thermal paste and voila! No more heat spreader!

 

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Yeah I assumed the heatspreaders were made of aluminum, but I guess not. Could be made of Tin or Nickel alloy.

 

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well it was bound to happen different metals usually are a problem especially aluminum. At least now reviewers have a good test to see if a HS is aluminum or not

 

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It's frightening.
I wonder if it dissolves what they use to connect heatpipes to copper base...

Conclusion? I'll stay with my pack of Arctic Silver pastes

 

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Seven7Thirty30

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I saw this stuff on eBay a few weeks ago and was tempted to buy some. The temptation is no more!

 

Alchemy1

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That seems to be some nasty stuff!

 

CWynn

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Don't companies test their products anymore?

 

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Does anyone know what chemical is in that stuff? At least it didn't deteriorate slowly and ruin the hsf while he was using it, or he could've blow his cpu or something.

 

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http://www.coollaboratory.com/en/
if he read the warning on the website that would have never happended.

Please do not use any aluminium coolers.

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edit i just found out what it is , heres an article
http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/thermo/liquid_metal/liquid_metal.html

gallium and alminum equal this

 

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LoneWolf121188

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Didn't our resident TIM taste tester order some of this stuff? I haven't heard his report on this yet...

 

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i know it eats aluminum but does it react to anything else? could that dmg a cpu if applyed directly to the die?

 

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lol my god thats awesome, i wanna get some and throw some stock HSFs in it . also, i wouldnt think it would do anything to the die, but i wouldnt exactly want to try it just incase

Careface*

 

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Nasty little invention
I guess its almost entirely useless because most new cpus have that heatspreader and aren't those usually aluminum? So it would burn away and destroy the cpu.

LoneWolf121188 said:

Didn't our resident TIM taste tester order some of this stuff? I haven't heard his report on this yet...

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Hope he didn't decide to taste this TIM.

 

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^^ belive me, we tried to get him to taste it . Now I'm glad he didn't!

 

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A lot of CPUs use Silicon thats been dubbed with Aluminum & Gallium. I guess making the aluminum/galium compound isn't that hard . My guess is that pouring it on an actual CPU (without the protective covering they put on top of the die [not the IHS but the "glassy" part]) you'd kill it by reactivating the process.

Also to answer an earlier question, IHSes are made of Copper that is plated with Nickel.

 

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C38368

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CWynn said:

Don't companies test their products anymore?

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Maybe, maybe not. But they did include a warning that was--for once--useful.

 

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damn that is pretty sweet...

Talking about chemical reactions... I still want to see how big of an explosion francium makes when it contacts water (from a safe distance of course).

My chemistry teacher said he was watching g4tv awhile back and they did drop cesium into a hot tub (blowing the thing apart).