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    thermalpad for Inspiron 8100 cpu

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by caller210, Nov 25, 2008.

  1. caller210

    caller210 Newbie

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    I have a dell inspiron 8100 i need an thermal pad for the CPU I tried Acrtic silver 5 but it isnt working well. Where can i by a thermal for intel P3 1Ghz?Also i need a thermal pad for the video card an nividia2GO 32 Mb video card. where would i find that also?
     
    caller210, Nov 25, 2008
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  2. elijahRW

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    What do you mean as5 isn't working?
    It should be just fine :confused: Are you saying that there is a gap between the heatsink and cpu?
     
    elijahRW, Nov 25, 2008
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    caller210 Newbie

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    The AS5 is not the problem, thought it was apparently the video card is getting extremeley hot and the heat inside the system is causing the temps of Hdd, modem cdrom and Cpu to get hot anyway to change the thermal pad on video card?
     
    caller210, Nov 25, 2008
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    A thermal pad won't do any better than as5.

    BTW what software are you using to check your temps?
     
    elijahRW, Nov 26, 2008
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    cpucool is theone I have been using
     
    caller210, Nov 28, 2008
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  6. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    What qualifies as "extremely hot"? These old P3 systems really shouldn't be dumping a lot of heat, even if cooling performance has degraded over the years. And yes, a thermal pad will definitely not perform any better than AS5.
     
    Commander Wolf, Nov 28, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Actually thermal pads can cool systems much better than arctic silver. If the thermal pad is say 1mm thick, and you replace it with a layer of arctic silver, the heatsink will not even touch the cpu. This is because as5 is a paste and normally the thickness of paper when spread. The difference in thickness may be causing the cpu to build up heat and not conduct it through the heatsink.

    I know thermal pads are still sold.
    http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/shpc.html

    A thin strip of metal can also be used if the gap is pretty large. If you need some copper shims let me know I have a bunch I can just send over.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Nov 29, 2008
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    renegadefury Notebook Enthusiast

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    Use mx-2 it's the best or ocz freeze
     
    renegadefury, Nov 29, 2008
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