Which laptop is this? I'd keep the liquid metal if I were you, I have a laptop that uses LM myself and I had an issue where there was an oxidized spot across a few cores that would in turn always hug the 95°C mark. Simply re-spreading the LM helped me get rid of the issue and it's been running perfectly fine ever since
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mystic patrol
What power consumption do you have on your CPU&GPU while your CPU is that high? My laptop still hits 90°C sometimes, but only when the GPU and CPU are pulling 130-140W combined (usually 80W GPU + 50W CPU)
I'd try, yeah. Is there a big temperature difference between your cores? That was the case with my CPU. Two cores would always hit 95°C while the coldest core barely exceeded 85°C. If you have that, it would indicate that there's likely an oxidized spot that you can get rid of by spreading the liquid metal over it with a bit of pressure. Just use any kind of cotton swab, it's pretty easy and laptops designed from the ground for LM have protection around the die so that in case of a spill, it wouldn't get to any small SMDs