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Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company. Intel designs, manufactures and sells computer components and related products for business and consumer markets.

Intel supplies microprocessors for most manufacturers of computer systems, and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets found in most personal computers (PCs). It also manufactures chipsets, network interface controllers, flash memory, graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and other devices related to communications and computing. Intel has a strong presence in the high-performance general-purpose and gaming PC market with its Intel Core line of CPUs, whose high-end models are among the fastest consumer CPUs, as well as its Intel Arc series of GPUs.


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Liquid metal permanently obfuscates key CPU information that is otherwise visible after cleaning off conventional thermal paste.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Liquid metal has never been good for long term use. It's great for tinkerers. But OEMs putting it on laptops like mine is the dumbest thing in the world. My laptop is only a few months old and I can already see that the liquid metal has started heat pump it's way out and my temps are getting worse. My friends laptop that was less than a year old was almost unusable because all of the liquid metal pumped itself out.

As soon as I'm not busy with work I'm going to do what I did with my previous laptop, and install the PTM thermal pad on there and hope the liquid metal didn't do too much damage to my heatsink or CPU.