The quest to waste time/money and lower my low temperature

So, sitting alone bored as hell, the thought occurred to me.

What kind of results would I see, if I removed the crappie thermal compound on the CPU and put something better like Arctic Silver or something. 1-3 degrees, or 5-10?

Then I though, maybe I can yank those torque screws off my GPU, remove the heat sink and investigate if it also uses thermal compound - or - some proprietary cooling mat thing. And if it were to use compound, think I'd see mediocre results or high results if I also replaced it with Arctic Silver compound?

I've had amazing results doing this with desktops..never laptops.

What do you guys think? I feel like wasting time and voiding my warranty - would be a fun project I guess..

 

you can not remove the gpu's thermal pad. there is a height difference so it needs a thermal pad, not just compound. if you remove it and replace it with arctic sliver, the heatsink will not reach the card.

as for the processor, the difference will be minimal, maybe 1-3 at most.

 

Hey nizzy,

Yeah, I figured the GPU has cooling mat/pads. Because I remember seeing the CPU heat sink, the extension that goes to the chipset had a cooling pad thing.

Really you think it's that small of a difference on a laptop? Damn.. I got 10-15 degrees lower on my desktop parts.

 

If I remember correctly, someone has tried Arctic Silver on his 1400 or 1420... it's buried somewhere in that 1420/1400 overclocking thread. I recall it was more towards the 5-10 range, although my memory is pretty bad you may want to check out that thread

 

5 or 10?!!? Wow, now that's a massive difference if you ask me.

Thanks gonna check it out.

 

Ok I wasn't sure if I recalled that correctly. Don't know if there's more than this but I think this might be the post I remembered:

So apparently he put in more than the AS, and yeah those temp diffs were under OC conditions. My apologies

 

No worries I found the thread, didn't see that post. That's amazing results. I got some old crappie heat sinks laying around I can mock something up myself.

Funny thing is my GPU goes at 73 max with 20 degrees added to the original reading because I was told that it doesn't read accurately. So my GPU will be frosty 50 or so...

Thanks for digging that up for me, I went looking seen every post besides the one that counted. Now I'm very turned on to this little mod/project.