xps 1530 with arctic silver 5 is it good?

hi, i have a dell xps 1530, with geforce 8600 gt, i would like to know, if i apply the arctic silver 5, can i reduce some degres? or is it the same?
why dell notebooks has a poor coolling system, when i had the hp pavilion dv6645us i never had problem with temperature and noises

 

If the stock thermal compound is a cheap/inferior product (or badly applied), then YES, replacing it with AS5 will make some difference. Probably not an awful lot, maybe a couple of degrees.

But on the flip side, if the stock compound is already a good material and very well applied, you could replace it with AS5 and maybe see little/no difference.

Be aware it will void your warranty, if they notice/care.

 

Yes it will make a big difference, provided nothing else is wrong with the cooling system, and you are suffering high temps (past 84c).

As v c stated, if your temps are already good (max 80c or less), then you will only see maybe 2 - 4c drop in max temp.

I went from a GPU max of 94c to 76c and I didn't even use Arctic Silver, I used Dynex Silver Paste which isn't as good as AS5. I had failed thermal pads.

It has been my experience, as well as many others, that the heatsink assembly actually does a reasonable job of cooling. The problem seems to be the thermal pads that Dell uses. It seems that those pads fail most of the time. Cleaning the remains and applying thermal compound will fix this.

I hope you know what you are doing. There are a few ways that this mod can go wrong.

 

hey elverde, i have applied AS5 on my m1530, and ive only been able to kick off 1 C of my GPU's max temp from 81 to 80, so its really not a big difference, but it may actually help if you are experiencing higher temps than, say, 84 C, because that could mean that your thermal paste was badly applied, and you can go with AS5, but also remember that high temps can be caused by defective motherboards/GPUs so if you are getting higher temps, get yours replaced

 

whell, now i will go to the shop for buying arctic silver 5, i would like to ask you people, where can i apply?
when i open the motherboard, i found the processor, the vga, and another thing simillar to a vga, but i dont know what is this? is simillar as a vga,
can i apply as5 on the memory ram?

 

u crazy? no way just cpu gpu and chipset!!! no ram! forget it... abort! XD

 

can i put on the gforce fan?

 

why would you wanna put it on the fan...
It won't help the fan run faster...

Honestly if you're not sure, i don't think you should be trying this out...you may end up screwing something up, especially using AS5, a metallic based thermal, you may short something @_@.

And im still trying to figure out if its "official" that replaying the thermal = warranty void.

 

Nope, i just had a tech replace my mobo witch had AS5 and it was no problem ... its official

 

its not really official

its like the tech wouldn't care if you replaced thermal paste...as long as u have some paste...

 

True! and you wouldnt beleive they actually F*cked up really bad with my computer, they scratched my palmrest, speaker cover... and ! they gave me a 8400gs, instead of a 8600gt... oh man, this thing is really bad for games

giving them a call now to change all those parts

 

k then its time to put some IC Diamond 7 on my notebook =)

 

speaking of wich.... i had to apply arctic silver today to my m1530.... dell replaced my motherboard back in december.... i was getting good temps... but started raising and today playing cod 5 got to87 the gpu.... so i applied arctic silver.. and now it wont get pas 85... and is my understanding that this is in the break in period.... after a week a should get better temps... after several thermal cicles... i usually play with a belking kooler.... u would go past 81.... not it wont go pat 75 in the cooler.... without cooler... max 85, with dell pads almost 97... so there u got a living proof... recent proof.... it is good.... freaking dell pads will last two months only..

 

lol, it was actually funny, the thermal paste on the heatsink ( especially on the gpu) actually had dirt, and the tech was like ..... mmm thats not normal.... oh well if you get high temps you can just call us..... if you like... , gonna demand for brand new replacements this time, enough is enough!

 

Just put some IC Diamond 7 on mine

Realtemp for the CPU is 41/46 while downloading windows updates
Notebook just on the belkin cooler without it actually turned on
Will check the temps after playing a game after i install some games lol.
But yeah before it was around 50s yesterday @_@