[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers for the top Liquid Metals and Traditional Paste:
(As we know the numbers don't mean everything, however, from all my tests done so far, Grizzly Conductonaut has always topped CLLU by an average of ~3C....

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

[Liquid Metal Showdown] Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut vs Cool Laboratory Liquid Ultra / Pro

As some of you know, there is a new kid on the block, Grizzly Conductonaut that is also a liquid metal thermal compound with some impressive stats.

Below are the conductivity numbers:

Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut - 73 W/mk
Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra - 38.4 W/mk
Coollaboratory Liquid Pro - 32.6 W/mk

I have a shot of Grizzly Conductonaut on the way and will be repasting my 17R3, yes both CPU and GPU.

Pre-Game Thoughts:

Well...numbers are numbers so we won't know until it's actually tested, but according to the conductivity numbers being almost double compared to CLLU/P....well? - As I've shared my thoughts with
@sirleeofroy, my theory is that the higher conductivity of GC could allow the AW to cool at it's maximum efficiency in respect to the laptops maximum ability to draw out the heat. So whatever that limit is, GC may allow that to happen even more effectively...who knows...however, if GC pans out to be even 1C better than CLLU/P, then it's good enough for me to switch. Why? Because when we're dancing in the territory where even 1C can make the difference of thermal throttling or not...well you get the drift. 1C equates to a lot in this sport.

What are your thoughts? Anyone else planning to try out the new cool aid? It's only ~$13 on Amazon...

* As a reminder, please refrain from any comments on the risks of liquid metal thermal compounds. We already know that lol...

Great Resources / Threads / How To's:

2016 Alienware 17 R3 Re-Paste Guide
(This is an excellent thread by: @jpowell490)

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And the Winner is?

I've just successfully completed my re-paste/re-thermal tape and the results are very impressive. About a week ago I had re-pasted using CLLU and following the same habits as I do with all my desktop re-pastes with CLLU, I had painted it on as usual. Upon firing it up, my Core #0 was being wacho and it was very apparent that there was not enough CLLU. Crap, I had thought....because I didn't want to open it back up again, however, since I had to anyway, this is what made me take a closer look at Grizzly's new liquid metal thermal paste, Conductonaut.

During my CLLU re-paste a week ago, I had notice the stock thermal pads looking like rubbish, therefore, I had ordered some thermal pads as well...

I took my time today in re-pasting / re-taping the laptop, making sure everything was done as perfectly as possible. As you can see from the pictures, I took some painters tape to mask off the surrounding areas when cleaning off the CLLU, which by the way came off very easily with just rubbing alcohol, although I did still use formula #1 and #2 of the Arctic cleaning solution...just because.

I didn't want any of the old CLLU to touch the PCB...

The thing that took the longest was polishing off the old CLLU off of the heat sink...

Re-taping was just as enjoyable as re-pasting, because the stock blue thermal pads are complete rubbish...

Work in progress...Thermal Pads: Fujiploy 17.0 mK/w ~ $20 for a 2x3 slab.

Oddly enough the contact points on the heat sink for the thermal pads had a lot of adhesive on it, so I polished those areas off for the heck of it...

Instead of using whole strips of electrical tape, I took a strip of tape and cut them into 4 smaller strips to tape over the transistors around the GPU.

I had also wanted to keep the tape inside of the metal box area. Much cleaner...

Here is all four sides covered...

I wasn't going tape around the CPU at first but...my OCD led me to cut smaller strips to cover all the gold points...

However...my OCD got to the best of me and so then I cut small strips and placed them around the CPU anyway LOL...

Getting ready to re-paste with Grizzly Conductonaut! So the syringe comes with a cap, then you have to take that off and put on the end piece as you can in the picture below...

This stuff is noticeably more liquidy than CLLU and spreads much nicer.

This stuff is awesome....very easy to work with...oh and btw I did end up using the Q-Tip that came with the kit...it is much better than the one in the CLLU kit.

The Q-Tip is way more practical as the swab itself is very tightly packed so it doesn't shed cotton everywhere like regular Q-Tips.

All set and ready to be put back together...

Painted the heat sinks...

A little more generous than before with the CLLU...I'm a firm believer that you have to use a little more on laptops than on desktops....ie..."just painting it on," ain't going to cut it on laptops. (At least from my experience and the finished product (temps) shows that to be true...I'm staring at my temps right now and can't believe it....)

Tip:

When removing and/or putting the Mobo back into place, start with inserting the right side of Mobo first (USB C side) and make sure the PCB is under that little clip that you see in the picture. This will save a lot of unnecessary bending of the Mobo. Once you have the right side nice and clipped in, the rest will fall into place with ease. Hope this helps...Cheers

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And the winner is...Grizzly Conductonaut. I'm extremely happy with the results and the temps are holding strong...

Idle Temps: ~8C cooler than Grizzly Kyronaut.

CLLU Idle and Under load Temps:

Gaming Temps: 52-55C! That's ~8C to ~10C cooler than Grizzly Kyronaut.

Video Encoding: (Mostly all CPU)

wPrime Scores: Not too shabby...The 1024M run is at #2 World Ranking at the moment. Someone beat it! I'm all for that....the 6820HK is a beast!

Below are the BEFORE and AFTER temps after running wPrime v1.55 on both of my 17R3's. One of my 17R3 still has stock paste (for testing and temp data), while the other 17R3 has been repasted with Grizzly Conductonaut.

As you can see the package temp for example is a difference of 21C.

BEFORE: (Stock Paste on 17R3 #1)


AFTER: (Grizzly Conductonaut on 17R3 #2)

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