PS5 Changing Liquid Metal for something else?

erm, sth I have forgotten to add. if you are that concerned about safety, I would recommend pure Gallium. this will only melt at body temperature (~37°C) and hardens below. so you would only have the liquid state when using the device. though, it is a bit more uncomfortable to apply, cause of the temperature limit
 
from my experience, when using liquid metal you have to let it first "burn in" for a while (a few months) until it builds up a kind of alloy to heatspreader and heatsink. after that you just have to apply just tiny bit more of it without cleaning up and after that it won't dry again
for a 1st (Sony Factory Application) or we need let it "burn in" for a few months on a LM replacement ??
 
erm, sth I have forgotten to add. if you are that concerned about safety, I would recommend pure Gallium. this will only melt at body temperature (~37°C) and hardens below. so you would only have the liquid state when using the device. though, it is a bit more uncomfortable to apply, cause of the temperature limit
check this out :
 
I'd say that the liquid metal used in the ps5 is not that aggressive and if it were, the effects that it causes would take a lot of time to manifest and destroy the chip or heatsink.
 
Generally speaking, people tampering and repasting laptops do nothing good. They work on the assumption that they know better than a company that makes laptops, have factories, QA and whatnot. The chances you F%$# it up are high. The best result if you do a good job is for it to work the same as before or to gain a couple of celsius degrees.
Back in the 2000s I overclocked the shit out of everything I had at hand. Unlocking cpu multiplier bridging the pins with a pencil, flashing firmwares on gpu, all the set. In those days cool people would "uncover" intel cpus so that the heatsink would make direct contact with the chip. To gain 5% of frequency. Repasting back then didn't exist, cause we pasted stuff in the first place
Anyway I'm digressing, my point is that it's unlikely that your laptop was pasted wrong, or the heatsink doesn't make good contact, or any other crap. What is likely is that you have this idea in your mind that it needs to run at 60° under load instead I don't know 90°. If you have proof that's how it should be then fix it. Otherwise leave it, unless you do it just because you can.
 
Generally speaking, people tampering and repasting laptops do nothing good. They work on the assumption that they know better than a company that makes laptops, have factories, QA and whatnot. The chances you F%$# it up are high. The best result if you do a good job is for it to work the same as before or to gain a couple of celsius degrees.
Back in the 2000s I overclocked the shit out of everything I had at hand. Unlocking cpu multiplier bridging the pins with a pencil, flashing firmwares on gpu, all the set. In those days cool people would "uncover" intel cpus so that the heatsink would make direct contact with the chip. To gain 5% of frequency. Repasting back then didn't exist, cause we pasted stuff in the first place
Anyway I'm digressing, my point is that it's unlikely that your laptop was pasted wrong, or the heatsink doesn't make good contact, or any other crap. What is likely is that you have this idea in your mind that it needs to run at 60° under load instead I don't know 90°. If you have proof that's how it should be then fix it. Otherwise leave it, unless you do it just because you can.

We are in 2024 now
People install thermal pad , super effective , 0% liquid leak/damage , top performance , internal temperature recorded live , no CPU overheating/damage.
 
I'd say that the liquid metal used in the ps5 is not that aggressive and if it were, the effects that it causes would take a lot of time to manifest and destroy the chip or heatsink.
 
I'd say that the liquid metal used in the ps5 is not that aggressive and if it were, the effects that it causes would take a lot of time to manifest and destroy the chip or heatsink.

this has NO connection with the corrosion caused by the liquid metal but by the flow if the console is in an extended vertical position.
Several console repairers have stressed the importance of placing the console flat on its horizontal base for several months.
and if the liquid metal escapes, it is not corrosion that is the problem but rather short circuits because liquid metal remains a highly electrically conductive metal....
 
I hope I dont have to replace the liquid metal or something in the future.
put your PS5 horizontally with his stand , that will greatly help ...but its sure that one day or another we will have to change the metal liquid in the bay like we had to change the termal paste on the PS3 consoles.

theses beast heat a lots (even more without jailbreak/control of the speed of the fan) and who say heat say....damage...

when you check video tutorial online , many private became pro doing this , its not as challenging that you might think but personally when your console will start (AS SOON) to have glitch , problems i would pack it and ship it to someone that have a good reputation doing so. then you should be fine.

A little video to understand better :

How to apply liquid metal thermal paste (compound) to PS5
 
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it builds up a kind of alloy to heatspreader and heatsink. after that you just have to apply just tiny bit more of it without cleaning up and after that it won't dry again
 
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