Best thermal interface material for laptops? Any other cooling mods uL50

I use IC diamond on my desktop, but as you may know it requires alot of seat pressure and while i can achieve that with my cpu heatsink, I dont know if thats possible in the laptop.

I also have used ceramic TIM on my nb/sb, and artic silver in the past...

if I take this thing apart for any reason, I will re paste it, I would like to gain some overhead in cooling..

I have a zalman cooling pad, which has space for 4 fans but only comes with two... maybe more/ higher cfm fans are in order, but they're the goofy sideways blowing ones...

I picked up 5 fps in scII by pushing to just over 2000 mhz on my UL50. I was able to get it up to 2094, almost 800 mhz over stock...

I am running the video card at 735 mhz. I had it up to 760-740 but it did not seem happy. I notice I can run there higher speeds in my bedroom which is extra insulated and about 10* f cooler than the rest of the house...

other times, the screen would go blank, and the gpu would downclock to 400 core/800 shader.. i am not sure if it's cooling, some kinda of error, or a driver issue. I am using evga precision.

voltages are stock.

I really wanna push this laptop to the hairy edge of performance... b4 you say i should have got a performance oriented one, i like the form factor of this one alot better and the ability to get lots of battery life with all the turbocharging turned off

I'm going to find / make some low profile heatsinks for the ram itself... i think that oculd help a bit with stability of it durring OC

 

ICD 7 should work just fine on a laptop as long as the heatsinks are secured by screws. Most laptop CPU and GPU heatsinks are secured that way so I wouldn't worry too much about the pressure issue.

 

My CPU has screws, yes, but they have springs, and they're what actually hold the heatsink down. I've shimmed them up so they compress ALOT. (and more shims on the top one so the weight of the heatsink doesn't make it )This type of attachment lets you load up the joint pressure.

I would imagine in the laptop, that even with the screws tightened all the way down there would be a gap if there were no TIM.