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    8130 - Replaced Stock Thermal Compound with Arctic Silver 5 - Temperature went up?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by craznn, Jan 28, 2011.

  1. craznn

    craznn Newbie

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    Hey,

    So I decided to change the stock thermal compound from my 8130 with Arctic Silver 5, and I noticed that now when gaming the temperature has increased.

    It was at 40'C (on GPU) before I switched the thermal compounds, and now it is at 60'C.

    I thought it was a bad application, so I cleaned off the AS5 and reapplied it, and the temperatures didn't improve.

    What did I do wrong?

    EDIT : Crap. I was viewing the wrong forum when I pressed New Topic. Someone mind moving this thread?
     
  2. mmarchid

    mmarchid Notebook Evangelist

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    AS5 has a cure time, but the change in temps is very dissapointing.
    Look for thermal paste application tutorials on youtube, there are several techniques.
     
  3. HTWingNut

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    Sounds like either your paste is way too thick, or you're not getting good compression of the heatsink on the GPU. Make sure it's fully secured and it's not being held up by something underneth (ie. bent capacitor, edge of housing, etc). I've seen some pretty strange things like that happen before.
     
  4. craznn

    craznn Newbie

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    Just redid application with less compound, and screwed the heatsink in more tightly. Seems like that did the trick :), temperatures are now ~40'C
     
  5. HTWingNut

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    Congrats... enjoy!
     
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    tobs Notebook Enthusiast

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    same as before... that really sounds worth it...
     
  7. craznn

    craznn Newbie

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    Yeah :p What a waste eh?

    My temps off-load are better though. like ~3 degrees lower than what I had before