Precision M4600 - Dual Core - 4 DIMM RAM???

Oh in the first post it says pads i thought you put paste instead of pads lol.
Have you tried checking to see if your fans are working properly (or clean them out)? Maybe you can alter the fan speed using HWiNFO to lower your temps some more.

If you're saying that you're experienced with repasting and know what you're doing then maybe its not the paste job...

The only other thing I can think of is that the heatsink isnt fully touching the die because the pads were moved around or that it just needs time to cure....

if it says 200+ hour cure time then its probably true. IMO thats a long time lol. Id try another paste.

 

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

1) Heat sink is clean since it is essentially a new one. The fans are working properly i think, hitting 100% when the temps are all so high.

2) I did make sure that I screwed in properly so that the sink touches the die properly. the issue here is that it got actually much higher in temp after repasting...

3) I used AC5 on all my repasting and I was able to see results RIGHT AWAY, if not no change at all. This is actually my first time in a dozen time experience that the temp is actually higher... The paste should be good though..

Did anyone see a huge difference in die temp after replacing dell stock pads with 0.5mm like this one:

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

1) Heat sink is clean since it is essentially a new one. The fans are working properly i think, hitting 100% when the temps are all so high.

2) I did make sure that I screwed in properly so that the sink touches the die properly. the issue here is that it got actually much higher in temp after repasting...

3) I used AC5 on all my repasting and I was able to see results RIGHT AWAY, if not no change at all. This is actually my first time in a dozen time experience that the temp is actually higher... The paste should be good though..

Did anyone see a huge difference in die temp after replacing dell stock pads with 0.5mm like this one:
fujipoly premium thermal pad from Frozencpu.com

Thanks for your reply again.

 

I used 0.5mm pads and put them on the same time I repasted, so I couldn't tell if it was them making the difference in temps or the new paste. I'm sure they helped though, the stock Dell pads on mine were rubbish.

Your heatsink isn't screwed in too tightly is it? Mine was a bit tight on the CPU and when I back it off the smallest bit, the temps dropped by 10*C. This might not be the case for you but it is something to try I guess.

 

oh really?? how could that happen?? did you screw back small in all four screws?

 

I tried using the 0.5mm fujipoly pads on my 6990m and it almost bricked my card (I Think. I have a post about it a page back or so.). I regret trying to replace the pads because I had to keep removing the heatsink to apply more pads (which did not work to revive my card) which affected my paste job (im considering redoing it but not anytime soon). Instead I reapplied my stock ones and they worked fine. I don't recommend changing the pads unless you have the exact correct sizes required.

But yeah...Maybe your heatsink is too tight.

 

how did is specifically brick your card?

Hmm.. I thought it was just simple to just cut the pad and just replace it... What else should I know?

 

Well this is what happened. I dont know exactly if it was because I physically took out the card from its slot to do a repaste/repadding or if it was just the repadding in general. This is because after trying every possible technique to get my BIOS to recognize my card again I decided to just put the stock pads back and reseat the card one more time and boom the card was detected again. The reason why It could have been the pads becasue the 0.5mm pads were not thick enough to touch the vram on the 6990m. But then I tried to stack 2x 0.5mm pads to give me a total of 1.0mm and that didnt work to bring my card up in the BIOS. Only when I put the stock pads back on and reseat the card (for the 3rd time) did it work. Oh i also had to reset my BIOS a couple times in the whole process.

All in all if you know what measurement pads to use for your gpu then I believe you should be ok. For your card I am not exactly sure what size pads you would need. But then again from what I learned in this whole experience is that an awesome paste job will do a much better job at lowering your temps than a thermal pad swap.

EDIT: If i plan to repaste in the future I will try stacking the fujipoly pads again to see if it was in fact the 3rd reseating of the card that did the trick because i am damn curious to find out. This time around though Ill probably try stacking 3 pads to make it 1.5mm (Fujipoly pads are very very soft).

 

Thank you for sharing. I will try to see if it will readjust and if not, i will probably just do another repasting...

To confirm, is the card on the LEFT SIDE the master card?

 

Try some other brands of pastes maybe that'll do the trick if readjusting the heatsink doesnt work. I used ICD 7 which cured in like a couple hours.

And yeah the card on the left is the GPU for the R3.

 

Settling of the AS5 takes many hours of hot/cool cycles. Negligible. Are you sure that you didn't mess something else up? A fresh paste job should be lower than whatever you had before, and then should continue to go down.