thermal compund and laptops :o

Sasso

Sasso

Sasso

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well my mates laptops fan was making quite a noise so we decided to take it apart and clean it up. so lots of undoing screws and scratching heads we managed to get into it :D undidd the fan and cleaned it up nicely, and well the little rag thats attached to the HS we decided to take off the HS and low and behold the horrible white icky paste, so i said lets put some of my silver5 on it. cleaned it all up nicely and put it back together...

woudlnt boot and started smoking!!!

hehe nah im only joking it booted up fine, so i decided i would do the same on mine as i always have the bottom panel off it cos it is 2 years old and cooks abit under load so i have a cooling stand helping out (runs crysis tho.. see my benchmark im near the bottom :p)...
...sorry trailed off there, so i took the significantly larger HS of my cpu and gpu (they all joined with one copper bar) and it was the silly little pads... pah these have got to go! so i cleaned them off but the one on the cpu had got rock hard so was almost hacking it off (carefully ofcourse) with my student card :p was nice and shiny after i finished so applied some silver5 to both and re sat the HS....

boot up no problem... get into windows where my folding@home started straight away... and i was amazed... normally after a few mins of that doing full stress my lappy gets up to 66 degrees... it was casually sitting on the 55 mark tho :o wow what a difference!!!!!! of course after about 20 mins it had crept up to 61 but still seeing as sometimes it was going up to almost 70 this is good going silver5! :D
 
Thats given me motivation to do same to wifes lapy :)

Fans too loud and gets on my nerves. Its an old amd xp2500 barton cpu so run very hot indeed....idles at 60c at the best of times and under prime load gets up nearer 90c :eek:

Had it shut down once at 94c (cpu max is 95c) so guessing the 4 year old paste isnt doing its job properly anymore.

And to think i used to freak if my old overclocked socket A rig got near 50c :)
 
tread carefully here, some of them have quite thick pads because the heatsink doesn't sit flush up against the chip. This was the case with the GPU in my old one, maybe the reason why it blew up 3 cards lol.
 
I'm another one who's pro "clean/re-apply thermal paste to old laptops"...
One of the best moves I've ever made, CoreDuo and 7800go worked so much cooler, enough for the fan to not be on all the time. :)
 
hehe ayy the pads in mine were pretty comperssed down and the Hs is held on by spring screws and i did the whole apply some paste, put it on to make sure it actually makes contact and check and it spread it out nicely so re did it and woooo cooler laptop :)
 
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