I have an ASUS g712lv and as part of the cleaning I was going to replace the Thermals paste, then it occurred to me that being a gaming laptop it might have liquid metal instead. Thus the question, which does it use?
And is any particular rating of paste/Lmetal recommended? I have some arctic mx4 on hand, but want to get all I need before I tear into it since its my daily driver.
Is this a good question?
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Rating of thermal paste really doesn't matter much. It should just be paste, not liquid metal. Arctic MX-4 should work perfectly fine.
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I was actually wondering what was "under the hood" before I tear into it so I replace whats there.
If there is LM, id rather replace it with LM rather than replacing it with paste,
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a terrible answer. I'm very late to this party, I hope you never fried your Laptop Kevin.
The tight thermal limits on a laptops are important to consider. To answer it doesn't matter without the required information is silly. You were right to consider LM. to quote ASUS "Liquid Metal compound from Thermal Grizzly, is 12 to 15 times better when compared to standard non-metal thermal paste" And if that is what is was designed to use, it should be used to keep within thermal limits.
So to anyone stumbling across this now as I did. Don't just open up your laptop to replace paste or liquid metal without knowledge of what you are doing. Liquid metal especially is highly conductive and you could fry your device.
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