How do you remove Dell thermal paste....

from the processor and heatsink? I want AS5 my chip but the Dell paste is literally like dried gum! Does anybody know of a solvent that would safely remove this?

Thanks a million,

Snes

 

Many people typically use a combination of alcohol and acetone. Personally, I use ArctiClean, which from experience, works much easier than either alcohol or acetone.

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arcticlean.htm

 

well about the dried gum part... you could put it in the freezer but i doubt that the notebook will survive this..

 

Is it just me or did they use thermal pads instead in the past - which were really easy to take out?

 

Some alcohol on a cotton swab works fine. I bought a thing of ArctiClean on accident and that works great too.

 

Nice! I'll find some Arctic Clean then.

 

I once had a dell repair guy come out to my house to replace a processor
He used blue tubes of gray thermal paste.

 

I think it is the M1330 that uses pads and the 1530 uses paste. I just did the AS5 to my 1530 and there was so much dried paste on there, it was like cement. I used Goof Off

 

The M1330 has 1 pad and 1 paste. The 1530 has 1 pad and 2 pastes. I'm not sure why there are 3 processor type things in there. I'm sure 1 CPU, 1 GPU, and the other?

 

Not an "other". Its called a northbridge.

 

I used a blunt flat object and scraped off the old thermal paste. The ArctiClean is really just citrus, Take a lemon, squeeze the juice out, and use that, it should work just as good as ArctiClean.

It came off extremely easy. I don't understand why some of you are having a difficult time getting rid of it.

 

m1330 has paste on cpu, a pad on gpu and a pad on northbridge

 

Its a citrus DEGREASER - Not just citrus juice.

Buy any generic citrus degreaser, not a lemon

 

What temperature results are you guys getting?

 

Ok ok, It's still some sort of citrus. Hey maybe the lemon thing will work. I'm gonna try it.

 

I finished. Used a razor blade, then acetone with a warshcloth! AS5'd the CPU and GPU. I'll let you know when I full throttle these with TF2...

 

I used OCZ Freeze which is better than AS5 according to a number of comparisons, and my after using that and undervolting my idles are 38-41c for CPU and 57-59 GPU. My stress tests are 65c CPU and 70 GPU

 

articlean 1 + 2 (purifier) would be the best way

you should have purchased it with your AS5

 

Um, TF2 is a pretty bad way to "full throttle".

 

Why?
It's hot in my office and I stand behind a sentry and OWN!

Usually, I peak @ 79C CPU now I peaked @ 71C. GPU I peak @ 79C, now 78C (Overclocked). <-- May be cause that chip is far back and wont fluctuate too much regardless.

The biggest thing I noticed is the fan is on for literally a 5th of the time it used to be on. My CPU drops to 38C very very quick.

I would say the AS5 is a success.