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    "upgrade" gpu thermal with thermal paste?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sandrodz, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. sandrodz

    sandrodz Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guyz,

    My laptop has 1 cooler, and copper arms on cpu and gpu to transfer heat effectively towards the cooler.

    I looked inside and saw that cpu has a thermal paste, while gpu and few other touching points have thermal pads instead. Is there any difference? why would hp use thermal pads on gpu?

    I'm going to buy some new materials today, and I was wondering if I should get thermal pad also, or just put thermal paste everywhere?

    I also read that hp uses low quality thermal pads...

    any thoughts on this?
     
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  2. Kuu

    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    The pads fill in space where the heatpipe doesn't touch areas that need cooling; if you're ripping them off you might as well replace them.

    Get a decent thermal paste though.
     
    Kuu, Jul 18, 2011
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  3. sandrodz

    sandrodz Notebook Consultant

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    so on gpu I put thermal pad + thermal paste?
     
    sandrodz, Jul 18, 2011
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    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    Nope, the only thing that should go in between the GPU and the heatpipe is some thermal paste... unless your gpu already had a pad there before.
     
    Kuu, Jul 18, 2011
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    sandrodz Notebook Consultant

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    yes now that I remember, it was gpu + cpu thermal paste, and there was also 2 thermal pads touching chips on mb.

    Can I leave thermal pads? or should I change them too with newer ones?
     
    sandrodz, Jul 18, 2011
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    The thermal pads are probably there for the video memory, you should definitely leave them there. It is standard for notebooks to have paste on the GPU die and pads for the GDDR. You won't want to fry your GDDR now do you ;).
     
    tijo, Jul 18, 2011
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