Hp omen 2023 thermal solution ?

[uguraygun]

Hello all i hope you all have wonderful day.

I have a question about omen 2023 thermal solution ?

Is this laptop use liquid metal or traditional thermal paste ? I could not find any information about it.

And secondly if it is using normal thermal paste is it safe to apply liquid metal ? ( does laptop's heat pipes are aluminium or copper?)

Thanks for answer.

[TzortzisG]

Hello uguraygun.

HP has used LM on one or two laptops (maybe) and YOURS is certainly not one of them. HP generally uses normal thermal paste. The heatsinks on the original generation (17-ck0000) were full copper for better conductivity (as far as I know). However nowadays manufacturers use some copper alloys or even copper plated aluminum heatsinks -which could be a problem.The picture of the heatsink HP has on its servers for your model (the part number is N35249-001) seems to indicate that it's made at least partly of copper........

You'll have to take it out, examine it carefully, maybe scrape it a bit with something sharp to see if it's just copper plated.....

Generally speaking, liquid metal and SAFE should never be used in the same sentence. Even copper heatsinks will corrode to some extent. The best thing to have when pasting LM is nickel-plated heatsinks. Also, the benefits of pasting LM between CPU and heatsink are very small unless delidding the CPU and pasting it on the bare die. Mobile CPUs have no IHS and therefore already use bare-die cooling. You must also understand that liquid metal is electrically conductive, and if not applied with the most extreme caution will lead to short circuits on your motherboard.

The general consensus these days is that it is better to use Phase Change Material instead of thermal paste or LM. Genuine PTM7950, if you can find it, gets you the best results. Read this thread.

This is one of the HP laptops that used LM by design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HmBMUHMXo