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    Replease thermal compound on 17R SE today

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Rassal, Aug 3, 2012.

  1. Rassal

    Rassal Notebook Consultant

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    Hi Everyone,

    This morning was one of those morning where i felt i had to dismantle something and my 17R SE was the target.

    Everything went well, took me overall roughly 1h to strip down the laptop, change the thermal compound on the CPU and GPU (with Arctic Silver 5) and reassemble the laptop to functional level.

    Nontheless, i am not surprised of the result, as Arctic Silver 5 takes 3-4 weeks under use to settle to the right spot. But so far, i achieved no better temps than i had before under full load.

    Under full load with Prime95 running i am getting 77-81C for the package (CPU) with Arctic Silver 5. I was getting the same exact 77-81C with stock Dell crap.

    Now, time will tell me if i only lost 1h of my time doing this... because so far nothing changed. WIll check the GPU later on after some Prime95 love to soften the compound... Laptop is in great shape...

    Was only dissapointed when i saw that a screw was missing from the palm rest assembly, it didn't got put in, so i replaced it with a brand new screw i had from my stock. Also one of the screws head was stripped, which i had to dremel out of the place. No harm done, but assembling quality (Made in China cheap!) is still poor with Dell, so is the Quality Check.... they should have noticed that stripped head screw and the missing screw... oh well... no big deal, the laptop works!
     
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    Rassal Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry, no video or walkthrough... i just used the User Manual Dell provides in the Support section on how to get to the heat sink... that's it. Easy thing to do for someone that is used to tear down laptops and desktops all the time.
     
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    Oh wrong section, could you move my post to Inspiron forums please. Thanks
     
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