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    Finally Fixed my Suttering Problem!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Lucanesti, Jul 18, 2008.

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    Well, if anyone has seen my posts before, they know im a whining little girl when it comes to my suttering problem. Well, I had a guy from "BancTec" out to replace my Motherboard and cooling tubing and he was nice enough to show me the contact points on the CPU and GPU. The CPUs had a nice thermal paste, but the GPU was covered by this hard plastic sponge like thing. I asked him if we could take that off and he said since hes on the clock he couldnt but he "forgot" some high end cooling paste in a syringe for me to experiment with.

    Idleing Desktop for 1 Hour after cold boot WITH Blue Sponge Thing: 65c!

    Wiped off the blue sponge and used the tech guys thermal paste: 53!

    1 Hour of WoW With Blue Thing: 88!
    Without, 74!

    This has allowed me to OC to around 630/820 perfectly stable and score 5.2k on 3dmark (but I only have 1400x900 resolution)

    Awesome! I told the tech guy I wish they hired them to build their laptops instead of 12 year old's in India.
     
    Lucanesti, Jul 18, 2008
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