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    Accessing my GPU in a Sager NP2096

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by guitarpolitix, Oct 24, 2010.

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    Hi all, I recently got my hands on some Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound. My Sager NP2096 had been running quite hot lately, especially my graphics card. I know that this model of notebook has been known to run very hot, so I opened up my back panel and applied some AS5 to the Core 2 Duo processor. I was going to replace the compound on the GPU, but I couldn't find any way to get at it.

    My GPU idles at over 60c, so I was... worried. Does anyone know how to get the entire back panel of the laptop off so that I could remove the heatsink from the GPU to replace the thermal paste, any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks a million,
    GP

    EDIT: I should have also mentioned that while trying to remove the back piece, I stripped the head of one screw. I discarded it, figuring one of the outside screws gone wouldn't wreck anything, but wanted to make sure this is the case. Thanks.
     
    guitarpolitix, Oct 24, 2010
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