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    M-6864FX - Arctic Silver or Ceramique -Worth the trouble?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by nonamebrand, Apr 6, 2009.

  1. nonamebrand

    nonamebrand Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anybody applied AS5 or Ceramique on their CPU or GPU? If so, how much did your temps lower by? Was it worth it?

    I'm guessing to get the GPU/CPU, I'd have to disassemble everything.

    My current temps are:

    GPU: 52C Idle
    CPU: 37C Idle

    GPU: 90C Load
    CPU: 75C Load
     
    nonamebrand, Apr 6, 2009
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  2. martee

    martee Notebook Evangelist

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    Go for Arctic Cooling MX-2, much better than AS5. Done that.

    Cheers...
     
    martee, Apr 6, 2009
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    nonamebrand Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey thanks for the reply martee.

    Do you know how much your temps dropped?

    If I could drop my temps by 10C or more, then I might consider doing it. I just hate disassembling laptops, so if I did this, I would like to make sure it would be worth the trouble. Plus I'm still under warranty until January 2010. I should probably wait until the warranty expires.

    ***note***
    I can't really complain about my currents temps...CPUs 34C and GPU 50C...this is much better than before. My temps lowered when I clean installed Vista 64 and got rid of all the bloatware that was factory installed. But I would like lower temps when I over-clock the GPU when gaming. Especially for the GPU. I'm already undervolting and have been since about the day I bought it.

    I do want this laptop to last for a few years. I guess I shouldn't take any risks right now and stop over-clocking.
     
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  4. martee

    martee Notebook Evangelist

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    With MX-2 I run 27-30C at idle for cpu, browsing web and listening to music.
    The gpu runs about 48-52C at the same time with stock putty. At the load
    (Orthos) temps reach 69-71C and 67-70C respectively.

    When I had the AS5 under the hitsink the temps for cpu was 4-5c higher.
    I'm just about to order the bottom covers with more air flow. I'm curious,
    how much the temps will drop.
     
    martee, Apr 7, 2009
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  5. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    An altenative is Coollaboratory Liquid Pro, heat conducting and transferring from CPU/GPU to the heatsink is more important, to get dissipated faster.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Apr 7, 2009
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    sigsegv0x0b Notebook Geek

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    Unless you want to do the copper mod for the GPU and the North Bridge you're wasting time.
     
    sigsegv0x0b, Apr 8, 2009
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