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    NP8662 CPU upgrade instructions-

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Totemobakadesu123, Jan 1, 2010.

  1. Totemobakadesu123

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    I was reading the service manual for the NP8662 regarding the CPU change instructions. It says that I need to remove the stickers from the heat sink.

    My question is: Do I really need to remove those stickers? I believe these are thermal pads for the cpu and gpu. Can I just clean them off and reapply thermal paste?

    Thanks.
     

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    Eivind Notebook Evangelist

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    The best thing to do is to clean it with alcohol and some cloth and apply some proper paste. I use freeze or something and it reduced the temps by 5-7c or more I think.

    Do not remove the blue thermal pads. Those are for the GPU-memory.
     
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    It is better to clean it with articlean or some specific thermal paste remover and a lint free cloth. When I installed my CPU, I didn't have any of those stickers though.
     
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    All right, I guess I will find out if mine came with those pads. thanks guys
     
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    Read on below.
    Sorry for the double post.
    HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.
     
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    I think this is the reason your heatsink did not come with them :p
    Yes peel those pink stickers off before applying the new CPU.
    Those are not really stickers.
    From what I can tell from that image is that the stickers are on to protect the factory applied thermal paste that's underneath those "stickers".
    When I got my new heatsink it came with those pink stickers.
    You can do two things peel those plastic pink thermal paste stickers off and use the factory applied paste.
    Or you can clean the factory applied thermal paste and use a better brand of thermal paste like AS5 or ICD7.
    Hope that helped.
     
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