equalize87 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Hi Guys,i have a question about this thermal grease. Is it possible to use this in conjunction with the cooling solution of the M18x R2? ...keyword aluminium...?!What do u think about it? Is it possible to use it without any problems?kind regardseQualize87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxender Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 I used it recently on my 675mx upgrade with a 75watt 660m heatsink. The m18x's heatsinks are aluminium with copper bases, in other words the part that contacts the core is copper so there's no worry of corrosion. Does pretty good job considering I'm not even using the correct heatsink, never gets above 75c. Nothing to write home about but not bad either. Pro tip: you only need the tiniest, teenie tiniest drop. I mean tiny, this stuff seems to grow when you spread it out! When you put the heatsink back on it also seems to "vacuum suck" itself to the heatsink, strange stuff. Edit: Practically impossible to remove excess, so get it right the first time! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equalize87 Posted May 7, 2013 Author Share Posted May 7, 2013 I have this thermal compound already used very often, I was just not quite sure about the material of the cooler in R2. I will test it once, thank you: D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxender Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 No problem! Strange stuff though isn't it? haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted May 9, 2013 Founder Share Posted May 9, 2013 What are you guys using to remove it? Does it come off with alcohol like other pastes?Sent from my GT-N7000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Alcohol won't do anything on this, it's a liquid metal alloy after all and can't just be dissolved. All you can do is wipe it off, but if you put it on an IHS there will always be a rest, you can clean it pretty good with the included cleaning set, but it makes the writing on the IHS unreadable in most cases... so good bye warranty.But the performance is really good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted May 9, 2013 Founder Share Posted May 9, 2013 Alcohol won't do anything on this, it's a liquid metal alloy after all and can't just be dissolved. All you can do is wipe it off, but if you put it on an IHS there will always be a rest, you can clean it pretty good with the included cleaning set, but it makes the writing on the IHS unreadable in most cases... so good bye warranty.But the performance is really good.Ok yeah definitely not for me. I'll stick with mx4.Sent from my GT-N7000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 yeah I can't get the stuff off other than sanding, which is OK for the heatsink, but probably a bad idea for the CPU die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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