does putting electric insulation tape around the cpu and gpu help prevent short circuit in case liquid metal paste spills to the other parts of the board?

[Rain]

laptop btw

[Cathulhu]

I seriously doubt that.

[Gin]

Electrical tape will not fully protect or prevent short circuits, in fact, such tape might even facilitate the metal to flow towards critical areas and components.

In a worst case scenario....

If a drop of liquid metal doesn't get under the tape, that's fine...
But then it surely will roll right over it until it decides to stick to something.

You can't tape off the whole board either because that will also start trapping heat.

So, the best advice is, don't use liquid metal when you're not entirely certain. It's that simple.

[_I_]

black electrical tape, no

do not put that anywhere near a pc or somewhere thats needed for more than a day or month
it will degrade and turn to crap, its glue will dissolve and make a huge mess

kapton tape would have a better chance, as its thermal resistant, and longer life span, but nothing can truly stop the flow of liquid metal, it will weep and wick, making cleanup difficult

laptop coolers and heatpipe need to be flexible, just use thermal paste and pads

[AmaiAmai]

Why would you need liquid metal on a laptop?

If it's not performing to spec or it's too old, overclocking won't help you as you will be power limited anyway.

If it's because overheating like on Ryzen 5000 + (and similar Intel CPUs) you can disable boost clock or adjust the fan, power, or clock speed in software.

Usual advice when modding overclocking anything: don't abuse what you can't lose. REally, if you aren't willing to lose whatever you are using, be content with what you have.

I drilled a hole in my laptop case to cool it, dumb decision. Well at least it looks cool with metal tape and I could add water cooling port if I wanted...still was a bad decision because it cut the resale value down.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you seriously need "tape" for that sort of thing then look at thermal tape used under the hood of autos (cars/trucks)

[Raoul]

The best would be dielectric grease or you can also get away with some petroleum jelly (vaseline)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Raoul:

The best would be dielectric grease or you can also get away with some petroleum jelly (vaseline)

That would melt to a point of becoming "runny" ~ you don't want that

[Captain]

Use nail polish around the CPU and GPU
After drying, use the kapton tape on the top of nail polish and surround the CPU and GPU .
Then put Liquid metal on CPU and GPU and after that on Copper heat pipe .

Then you will see the magic but remember after 2 weeks , open your laptop again and take a look and re-apply the process and then you are done for 2 years without worry.