The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Source and P/N for "thermal cooling pad" for T8300 Upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jnewell, Aug 16, 2008.

  1. jnewell

    jnewell Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    14
    Messages:
    104
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I'm planning to upgrade my M1330 to a T8300. The Dell service manual says I should replace the "thermal cooling pad." I don't find anything on the Dell parts website that matches that description. Questions:

    Can I reuse the existing one?

    If not, or if not advisable, where can I get a replacement?

    Thanks!
     
    jnewell, Aug 16, 2008
    #1
  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

    Reputations:
    6,156
    Messages:
    11,214
    Likes Received:
    68
    Trophy Points:
    466
    The thermal cooling pad is for the GPU.

    CPU's use thermal paste
     
    flipfire, Aug 16, 2008
    #2
  3. jnewell

    jnewell Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    14
    Messages:
    104
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    OK, my error. I went back and re-read the SM. Looks like no new thermal cooling pad would be required if the cooling assembly comes out and goes back in as a unit, which I assume is the case if you are just taking that assembly out to get to the CPU socket. (Am I right?)
     
    jnewell, Aug 16, 2008
    #3