Reviewer High Tech Point recently reviewed Asus' Vivobook S15 Copilot+ PC powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processor. The reviewer was underwhelmed by the laptop's thermal performance, which provided high CPU thermals in higher power profiles and warm surface temperatures even under lighter use. To cope with this temperature behavior, the reviewer swapped the thermal paste application from regular paste to liquid metal to see if the more thermally efficient material would help alleviate the Vivobook S15's thermal behavior.
Unfortunately, High Tech Point discovered that the liquid metal application did little to improve performance and temperatures. In Cinebench testing, the stock thermal paste application yielded a 10,962-point multi-threaded score, while the liquid metal application yielded a 3% improvement of 11,344 points. Thermals were much the same. The Snapdragon X Elite's maximum temperature dropped by two degrees with the liquid metal application, going from a maximum temperature of 88 degrees Celsius from two CPU sensors to 86 degrees Celsius.
