G50VT GPU repaste

Ight, so after a month of waiting and using a jerry rigged fan to run this laptop, I finally got the right part. So, I used this as an opportunity to repast everything. I noticed that on all of the gpu, there is a putty like thermal pad on all the parts rather than regular thermal paste. I cleaned everything off and used thermal grease. after tightening the plate back on, I noticed that a lot of the contacts weren't secure and I had gaps. I took it back off, cleaned again, and put the putty back on that came off. I didnt get it perfect, but it was back on there. so the GPU was hovering around 58*C on idle at first and now it is back to 73*C. Any Ideas?

 

Make a sandwich:
thermal paste <> copper shim <> thermal paste.

 

Making a copper shim sandwich will conduct heat better than the stock thermal pad, provided you do it right. But I would just clean off/reapply the paste on the GPU core other than tearing off all the thermal pads on the memory chips, I hope you still have the thermal pads you removed, if not, do as moral said.

 

He already said he put the thermal pads back on because the paste wasnt thick enough to touch. Its usually inadvisable to use paste over pads on vram.

Cant say he described it well.

His issue is the gpu temps still as the vram does not have temp sensors on this. Of course moral didnt say what to do it on, I would have assumed he was talking the gpu core not the ram.

 

Yes, I thought he was talking about the core. For the vram get new thermal pads if yours are damaged.

 

Thanks...I did put a good layer of paste on the core. All the pads were put on as I said. It has been running cooler today, I dont know what the problem was last night. All I was doing was surfing the web....