ShadowWolf712
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Sony patents say they have a compound that settles in a semi-solid state at room temperatures and liquefies when the internal temps hit over 30 celsius or something along those lines.Just watched the video and... JFC... liquid metal? REALLY? IN A F*CKING CONSOLE???? Is Sony really THAT stupid?
Liquid metal is an excellent TIM, HOWEVER, it comes with GREAT risks, mostly involving its electric conductivity. If the console is standing or on its side permanently, with no movement at all, there is no problem using it as a TIM and in fact it's a great choice. However, if you move the console around (which happens a lot with kids and people going from one place to another), you risk the APU to short-circuit with other parts because of the liquid metal leakage.
Also, liquid metal corrodes the heatsink metal, even if it's copper-based, so it requires constant manteinance (at least checking every year in order to check wether it has or hasn't corroded the heatsink enough). In the PC world, that's a usual thing among enthusiasts. In the console world? not at all.
Mark my words: there will be a lot of complaints about liquid metal leakage and motherboards short-circuited because of the console movement.
If you plan on getting a PS5, just keep it still in one place and do a regular yearly manteinance job on the heatsink and all will be fine. =)
Idk why people act like Cerny & the Engineering team at PS are some sort of rich hobbyists who just toss this stuff in because they have money to burn and heard it was good. They spent years working out how to implement that alone.