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No, no notebook maker of centrino systems would ever use "artic silver" as it's a name brand for a high quality thermal paste...... but no manufacturer would use anything other than a thermal pad in the case of a system like a W3. Thermal pads eliminate mess and leakage all together and since the warranty would be voided if anyone but Asus removed the cpu, there isn't a need for reusablity.
When it comes to the heat or really lack there of that a pentium-m creates next to a p4 or an a64, nothing else is needed. I've said this many times. Something like Artic Silver is used for two things when the heat is high... such in overclocked a64's or p4's..
1. increase part life
2. increase performance
On this system the heat at it's max is still well below operating temps and therefore isn't going to help with either of those issues. Since a pentium-m is really the anti-overclocking cpu....... it's really a non-issue.
Asus uses a heatpipe design which, as heat pipes do, turns a liquid into a gas as creates a cyclical movement towards the heatsink which is located near the edge of the system. The heat is absorbed into the heatsink fins and at that point a fan blows over the heatsink fins and blows the hot air out of the system.
This is how 95% of all Asus' systems have worked over the last few years.
That's correct..... and basically the whole "catastrophic" temp is if the fan dies....... but the thing is your system still isn't at risk as the system will shut down before and damage is done. All of the systems now are pretty failsafe.
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