Re-pasting your M71X

How many of you have re-pasted your alienware? And did you do it insied or outside of warranty? I've seen a few videos and youtube of people doing this and they say the saw a good drop in temps. However do you void your waranty by doing this and if you do it is there anyway for alienware to tell?

 

Although I don't have an AW, but almost all notebooks have a small "warranty void if removed" sticker attached on the heatsinks, which you got to remove before you repaste your CPU/GPU. Yes, doing that will avoid your warranty.

I would only do a repaste job once the warranty ends, that's what I did with my ASUS. A few degree drop in temp is not worth to void warranty IMO. I have ordered a M17x R3 a few days ago, I have no intention to repaste it when it arrives, not until the warranty expires.

 

No such a thing exist on the alienware. no warranty stickers. You can repaste and they wont tell the differences. I had a bad slave video card when i first purchased my AW and before realizing it, i did a repaste on the main card. When the problem arised and i had both cards swapped by Dell technician, they didn't even look at them.

 

You can definitely repaste without voiding your warranty as long as you don't break/damage anything in the process, if you ask most of AW's techs and engineers they know the paste they use is crap and most of them actually appreciate you repasting if you know how to do it correctly as it decreases the chances of overheating a part and having to get warranty replacements. There are a lot of visual guides if you need help or you can always just ask.

 

hmm, that's a good thing to hear. I will consider repasting then when I receive my machine, what's you guys' CPU/GPU temp before repasting?

 

I think it depends what you have . If you have the 460 it's not worth repasting. With stock paste I was maxing at 65 degrees with over clock running furmark for 30 mins. After repaste, the temp didn't move much. Maybe I did it wrong.

 

^^^ Very true, you don't even really need to repaste with a 6970m unless you get one with a bad paste job, most of the 460's top out in the 60-70's and the 6970m's top out in the 70-80's. Neither of those temps are a problem in daily use, so unless you get a bad paste job or want to do heavy benching/ocing the stock job should be just fine.

 

M 71x!!! Talk about a desktop replacement! That's a massive screen! j/k

 

My replacement R3 came with the wrong processor so when the tech came to my house to swap it out I asked him if we could repaste the CPU and he said yea definetly, and repasted it for me. I asked if it voids the warranty and he said no. I just have to repaste my gpu now.

So ur good man, go for the repaste.

 

Well, thanks for the info, I am getting a 6970, hopefully it will stay within 80 C and if it doesn't, then I will repaste it then.

 

Well for me, they just send 3rd party techs to my house so I don't think they will notice or even care if I have done a repaste.