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    Reapplied Thermal Paste Safe CPU Temp Range?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by QuicKSwitcH, Dec 27, 2010.

  1. QuicKSwitcH

    QuicKSwitcH Notebook Guru

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    So, just had a replacement LCD put in and was suppose to have a new mobo but dell sent the wrong piece. The dell tech forgot to attach the heatsink power so when i opened it back up i took the time to apply some new MX-2.

    However now when im watching the temps in HWmonitor and CoreTemp i see that the cores temps now fluctuate anywhere between 10 C of each other, so i could be 65 and the other 75..... I was wondering if this was safe or normal?
     
    QuicKSwitcH, Dec 27, 2010
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    What is the:

    -Ambient room temperature
    -Processor
    -Laptop (model)

    Without these 3 key pieces of information, helping you is rather hard!
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 27, 2010
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