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well i was playing battlefield and i got a temp spike of 103 C . ive stopped playing any games until i get the arctic silver on Wednesday in the mail. anyone have any guides for applying the thermal paste. also i shouldn't have to do anything with the thermal pads correct?

 

i don't recommend arctic silver. Highly conductive stuff... don't want them floating around in my lappy.

thermal pads?.. I dunno what you are referring to by them, but if you mean the stock stuff that is pasted on the heatsinks now, yes. You have to get rid of them to apply your new thermal paste.

I suggest using arcticlean, which I bought to clean my stuff up before applying MX3.

Good luck to ur temps and gaming life!

 

If your using AS5 the install instructions can be found here:

http://www.arcticsilver.com/instructions.htm

Use the AS5 ONLY on the CPU & GPU, DO NOT use the the AS5 in place of the thicker thermal pads. The compound will not fill the thicker air gap that the thermal pads will.

 

ok well taking in your suggestions I ordered mx-3 and articlean. if one of my thermal pads has a slight dent from getting a tad bit melted should i fill that hole with a tad bit of mx-3?

 

I got rid of all my pads and use mx-3 to fill in the gaps. Works great

 

i still don't get what you refer to as the thermal pads....

do you mean the copper heatsinks?

or the stuff the company used before shipping as your thermal material?


If it is the first, it's gonna be fine because MX-3, when applied correctly, will fill up small dents and scratches.

If it is the latter, the arcticlean will just remove the thermal pads anyways, so no worries to that either.

 

That's the thing he was referring to , they put it on both sides.

 

thermal pads=blue foam like pads

 

Sometimes grey/brown

 

Ah.

That's the thermal pad.

Nah, you don't have to fill those gaps in.

 

what is the component that is above the ram? the square thing?






there are a couple scratches seen in this photo:

what can i do about these?


where is a picture of the pads. there are two rectangle ones and sever blue square pads i would leave those alone right? also there is some particles of random stuff like a couple folicles of hair should i get those off the pads?


here is the pad with the slight melt mark that is slightly indented:

 

Upload them on http://imageshack.us/ as your link doesn't work.

 

fixed in previous message.
I took only 6 min for my temps to rise from 60 C to 94 C.

 

Yep working now

Don't worry about the scratches , the blue one aren't that important.
You can use thermal paste where the rectangular pads are if they are dirty or damaged.

Replace the melted one with paste as well and ur good to go.

it's the northbridge.

Are you using it without paste ?

 

you mean the one with damaged one? if so at the moment there is not paste on it. so take the damaged pad off and put paste instead or put the paste on top of the damaged one?

also does anyone know what the component is within the star?

 

Take the damaged pads off , clean it up and apply the paste. Always apply to the components on the mobo , then put the heatsink on.

That thing is called the northbridge (memory controller).

 

I'm about to buy this thing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Core-2-Du...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efdcc1008
Do I have to replace the 90w power adapter that came with my laptop?

 

What version is the HDMI on the 1651? I can't seem to set resolution above 1920x1200. Is it because it is 1.0~1.2a?

Are the new MSI NBs coming out with HDMI 1.3 or 1.4?

 

No you don't need a new power adapter.

 

You should install BIOS version 10P, so you can have the 20% OC option to go to 3.6Ghz. That would be

 

Lol, I think 2.93 is already fast aplenty

 

ok im about to apply mx3. anyone have any tips, guides to doing this? i have articlean can i use this even though im not using arctic silver?

 

No problem.

You can use arcticlean for cleaning the residues of the thermal compounds, regardless of what you will use as the replacement thermal compound.

Good luck! MX-3 dropped about 4-5'c on my lappy.

 

ok cool now does anyone know of any guides they used? meraki can you explain the procedure?

Thanks ^^.

 

Well the procedure itself is simple, and pretty clear cut.

Use articlean 1 to liquidify the thermal stuff that is on there already.

Wipe it off, then use articlean 2 to polish the surfaces and remove the miniscule residue on the heatsinks.

After wiping articlean 2 off, apply MX-3 to the cores( I suggest a dot method, as the heatsink pushed on and screwed on will squish the dots to fit your gaps between the heatsink and the CPU.

 

You can also use rubbing alcohol (the higher the alcohol volume the better) as an alternative, more accessible way to clean off your thermal compound residue.

 

well instead of the dot methos i used a credit card to put a thin layer over the entire surface of the gpu and cpu

 

That will leave airpockets in the compound. Your better off with a single bead and then install the heatsink.

 

Wow, this place is dead now that the gx640 has been released...

 

hahah, yeah. there will always be something newer, better, shinier.

 

I'm attempting to replace the keyboard but im not sure how to take the old one out any know of any guides to doing this?

 

here you go:
http://forum-en.msi.com/moderator/assembly-guides/MS-1651 Disassemble SOP.pdf

 

Anyone willing to sell geforce 160m gts?

 

I recent.y did a fresh install of windows 7 on this computer. i am trying to use speedfan but it isn't finding my fans. i think this is a driver issue. does anyone know where i can get drivers for the fans. I have a force 3551 from xotic pc

 

I believe you can access it with the nvidia system tools.

 

hey guys my 2, s, caps lock, x, and w key are only semi responsive. I know I need to replace my keyboard. I just want to confirm 2 things. First is that this is the guide I need for replacing the keyboard http://forum-en.msi.com/moderator/as...mble SOP.pdf and the second thing is that this is the part I need to correct this problem MSI Notebook 103 Key Full Size Gaming Replacement Keyboard-Red Highlighted Gaming Keys

 

Any experience setting up the built in camera using webcamXP ( webcamXP - Webcam and Network Camera Surveillance Software) with this laptop? I got my spouse's Wind set up properly, but on the 1651 I'm having trouble. It somehow gives a message that the camera is in use or unavailable even if its not.