My repasting experience with a disassembly video and pictures!

SUCCESS! I repasted my laptop today with ICD7 paste and I was really stressed about it, but it turned to be easy! The keyboard was pain, but was possible to do I didn't get any problems from the speaker cable, since I knew it was fragile. I had 67-70C idle and now I have 57 steady idle (had 47C right after repasting). Strangely, my subwoofer works way better now And I always had a corner of my keyboard lifting up so I added some tape underneath it.

Furmark about 1 month ago


and about 2 minutes ago


I was hitting 95C after about 1 minutes and kept increasing. Now, it goes straight to 86-87-88 and stays steady for 6 minutes (didn't try more than that) and the fans do not even go to 100%, it stays finally quiet!
I am happy with those temps, but I think it could be better. What do you guys think? I just they won't increase in the next days/weeks if I didn't paste well.

VIDEO

I know there's already other guides, but an other one to the list never hurts



-Remove the main access pannel
-Remove the blue ray drive screw
-Remove the drive
-Remove the 2 screws in the blue ray drive bay
-Remove every screw under the laptop (the big screw holes)
-Remove the 2 hard drives


-Remove the 2 screws near the RAM and the screw near the wireless
-Remove the small top cover


-Remove the 4 screws at each corners
-Gently remove the monitor
-Remove the keyboard by pressing on each tab and peel it off without bending it (it's pretty hard, take your time)
-Remove the 2 keyboard cables


Remove the 4 screws
-Remove the 2 ribbon cables
-Remove the speaker cable BE CAREFUL, easy to brake (loose the plug by using a small screwdriver)


-Remove the cover


-Remove all the cables (I don't think we need to unplug them all, but I did)
-Remove 3 screws from the mother board (2 at right and one up between 2 cables, there is a small "S" near each screws)
-Remove the 3 screws from each fan
-Remove your motherboard


-Remove your heatsink with the correct order (there are numbers on it)
-CLEAN your GPU and heatsink with alcohol
-Apply a small thermal compound ball
-Replace the heatsink with the correct order again

That's pretty much it, I don't think I forgot anything. Then just do everything backwards and be careful, some cables can get stuck underneath the motherboard.

 

Nice little guide +1

Could you post some information in regards to what Thermal Compound you used and also some benchmarks and stress tests with temps if you can.

Grats on your repaste!

 

You must of had slightly better drivers on there before after looking at your stress test you had a 2fps avg difference.

It's weird that you did this yesterday because I did the same except we might have used different pastes. I myself have been using mx3 because it's what I have lying around. Of course my other machine was repasted when I bought it so that is what made me repaste my first one. I'll take a couple screens to compare my mx3 paste shortly.

While not as good as yours.. It is slightly better than what it used to be. I didn't get GPU load to display on gpu-z though. Also, I dunno if the 30% fan at all times is actually occuring or it's actually spinning up and down during the tests. I would like to have a modded driver or something to reset when the fan turns up and down.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/682/testzt.jpg

 

I was using 11.4 but I updated this week to 15.b for The Witcher 2... but it just lowered my fps -_-

And I notice I have 50C idle when turn my laptop on, and after 1-2 hours it gets to 60C and maybe more

 

If you used IC7 your idle temperature shouldn't change by that amount unless the clocks/voltage are changing.

 

Yes I used IC Diamond 7, but seems to get steady near 57C. Before repasting, when turning my computer on I had about 60C and then was increasing til 67-68-69. After playing or doing a burn in test, my temps were not getting back to 67, but were staying arround 71C. Yesterday after my burn in tests, idle before was 57 and ater the test it was getting back to arround 60C.

 

@Blackluc:

Super Awsome job man !

 

Thank you!

 

lol unreal tournament music

 

that's some nice video man but if your main language is your english you should have talked instead of that music (don't be shy)

i don't get one thing
all the people claim that IC7 is the best but 60 C idle i think that is kinda more , shouldn't it be lower ? around 50 ?

i mean i have my laptop from around 15 september with stock paste (i am not sure if the guys from powernotebooks repasted or asus

and my temperature now at 400/1000 is 57/58 degrees idle

it was 68 idle before a month but then i made some blowing into the fans and it cooled 10 degrees

so is the way that you apply the paste so important ?

+1 rep for the video ... i think you are the second man doing a video after the btotech i am aware of

 

All?
I ordered some shin etsu 23. Will do some comparison against mx3 later.

Nice tut btw. +1

 

Good luck @tilla. Think you`ll need it when dealing with Shin etsu

 

That is the most important factor of any repaste. The paste thickness has a huge impact on thermals. Doesn't matter if the paste has awesome thermal conductivity if the layer between the GPU and heatsink is too thick. ICD7 is good exactly for that reason, easy to apply and get a thin layer on heatsink like those in the G73.

 

Thanks! And yes I think my temps could be better... Maybe I'll do it again some day I'm not sure if I did it well... In your case, seems like it was repasted or you are really lucky

And english isn't my native language, that's why But maybe i'll add my voice later. For now, there's the instructions in the info.

I hope the video will be useful!


EDIT* I just tested with 800/1100 in the witcher 2 and got a RSOD after 3-4 minutes, but went back ok after 2-3 seconds. I downclocked to 775/1100, but got a GSOD after 30-40 minutes and had to restart

 

Are you currently using mx3 now? If so are your temps anywhere close to the ones i linked earlier?

 

I just played about 4-5 hours of The Witcher 2 and my max temp was 85C. I find it good since before I think I was getting over 100C after 2 hours.

I also tried overclocking, 800/1100 gave me a RSOD but went away after a few seconds. Right after I tried 775/1100 and gave me a GSOD about 30-40 minutes after and had to restart. Later I guess I'll try 750/1050

 

You using the latest VBIOS?

Oy Oy! What this thermal compound that sounds like a karate chopping ninja? When, where, what, how and who? Because I want some

 

Quick google shows that shin etsu is probably the best out there

 

Very good tutorial Blackluc!

Detailed instructions with pics? Nice!
Excellent video of the procedure? Outstanding!

Seriously, this will help many. I havent repasted, and I doubt I'll ever need too, but if I was about to, you would have been a lifesaver. Glad you got some good temps! Enjoy it! *maybe even OC your GPU?

Favorite repasting tutorial for sure.

 

Yes.
79-80 was (is) the max at Furmark.
83 overclocked to 800/1100. This was in april.
IDK, if the temps are generally higher at the earlier card revisions. My is C1x.

LOL. I picked up some from a US ebay seller. Here
If I have some time, I will try this. A 6970 would bring me more joy.
Very thick stuff (like IC7?). You have to warm it up for easier applying.

 

Yes, everything is updated on my laptop

Thank you! and yeah, trying to OC but doesn't look stable enough