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You would need some thermal tape too. The chipset and GPU components have some kind of soft thick thermal compound. Looks like you will need a thermal tape for that.
Ok, I opened her up and unscrewed the 6 screws. There was very little paste on my cpu (temps around 82 at max load), so i put some new stuff on there. I didnt do anything to the gpu. Put everything back together and the cpu temps were about the same but seem to be sketchy (like spiking almost) and the gpu temps seemed to have dropped about 10* from 107 to 97. I didnt do anything to it.
Any input as to what to do for the cpu? Also, can I remove the pad for the gpu and just use the thermal paste? Or just leave it be? Or can I add thermal paste ontop of using the pads??
This is what you want to do. You want to google how to lap the heat sink. This will do more than using different thermal grease since the stock one is probably very good.
The next one is if you do use thermal grease, need to look up if it needs to be cured.
Leave the CPU ALONE... the heat issue is only the GPU. Their is absolutely no reason to touch the CPU, leave it be and retain your warranty.
But really, I'd just buy a laptop cooler instead of all of the above.
Warranty is already over. I didnt find any info on whether the grease needed cure time ( shin etsu g751). Have a cooler, but its never on a surface other then my lap and its not comfortable.
Thanks though, ill look into the heat sink lapping.
In order to get to the GPU you have to remove the CPU/NB heatsink. This is a one-heatsink G50vt model. That being said, the more efficient the CPU cooling is the better the GPU will be.
Plus the X5 variant has the Worst Buy warranty. Nothing to lose there.
Some things you can do to is to clean out your fans and make sure they're dust-free. Second is to spread the thinest layer of thermal paste on the GPU and replace it, and then remove it to see if your GPU is making full contact. If your GPU is making full contact with a thin layer, screw it down and leave it be. (Do
not replace the thermal pads with thermal paste; only use the same thermal pads or new thermal pads). And since it's out of warranty, look into case mods.
Shin-Etsu doesn't nominally require a cure time. Still, giving a couple of regular thermal cycles won't hurt.
No. Do
nothing to the thermal pads unless you need to move them back into place or something.
I meant to say put a thin layer of paste on the GPU die.
And if it turned out a thin layer doesn't work, I have spare copper lying around. I'm actually doing a shim for my friend's G50vt-X6, so I could cut another one and send it you for like $0.75.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
