Coollaboratory Liquid Pro

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I want to apply Coollaboratory Liquid Pro on my i7 4790k, i am using coolermaster gts v8 for cooling. i heard that it isnt safe to use Coollaboratory Liquid Pro with some heatsinks, is it safe for mine?
 
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It's not about the heatsink. Coollaboratory's Liquid Pro and Liquid Ultra are electrically conductive. This means that unless you're very careful with the application, if even a bit of it flows down into the CPU socket or on the CPU die (under the heat spreader), your CPU and potentially your motherboard are dead. IMO they do not offer a tangible benefit if you don't have a massive watercooling loop, so just stick to something like ARCTIC MX4.
It's not about the heatsink. Coollaboratory's Liquid Pro and Liquid Ultra are electrically conductive. This means that unless you're very careful with the application, if even a bit of it flows down into the CPU socket or on the CPU die (under the heat spreader), your CPU and potentially your motherboard are dead. IMO they do not offer a tangible benefit if you don't have a massive watercooling loop, so just stick to something like ARCTIC MX4.
 
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