So a shopowner suggested me this metal thermal cooler for my Ryzen 5 2600 which ended up melting my stock cooler. Stupid me didn't do prior research that this paste doesn't go well with aluminium. Anyways can anyone suggest me a budget friendly cpu air cooler which supports this paste ? Thanks
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my suggestion is to not use liquid metal with that cpu because the isn’t much point in trying to overclock it and it doesn’t run that hot anyway. Get something like a Peerless Assassin and run it with the regular Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut
shop owner should have known better.
liquid metal cannot be used on any cooler that uses an aluminium contact base, may also cause staining on copper.
also imo you should only be using it on direct die contacts anyway, most good thermal pastes are sufficient for this task.
find a thermalright cooler, they are very cheap and very good performers, they come with paste in them too.
You don’t need Liquid Metal for that cooler. Get a peerless assassin and use some paste like mx4 or ptm7950
I think every aftermarket cooler uses copper or copper with nickel plating base.
Even cheapest 20 dollar ones.
Noone would imagine you are gonna use a 30-40 dollar compound with the stock cooler…
Anyways… anything will do for your 2600, cpu draws very little power.
Get a iwongu 240 AIO from ali express if you want something decent cheap and beautiful. They go for about 40dollars. I bought their fans, they are AMAZING. I actually replaced my Thermaltake pure plus fans with them and they costed one fourth of the prize.
You are from India, aren’t you?
Cheap air cooler to consider, Cooler Master Hyper 620S. The cheaper 212 series and DeepCool AK/AG 400 have direct copper contact pipes with aluminium between them. Not a good idea to mix that with Liquid Metal paste.
Lol, a stock cooler with liquid metal Tim… What was the repair guy thinking?