Heatsinks

So I took apart my alienware 18 for a repaste but Im struggling to get the CPU heatsink off. The 4 screws are the issue, no matter what I do the heatsink doesn't come off. The screws turn but I have no idea if they're coming out or going in when i try to re tighten them. Attempting to remove it...

I would like to get better thermals on this laptop and Liquid Metal has the best thermal performance hands-down. I do not know if the laptop has a copper heatsink or an aluminum heatsink, however, so I don’t know if liquid metal can be used safely. I don’t have the laptop yet so that’s why I’m...

The fan on my laptop's heatsink starts to rattles really loudly at seemingly random, I've opened up the laptop to check for random bits of garbage that might've been causing it, but even after cleaning it it still goes crazy for no reason. Is there any way to fix this ir should I just buy a new...

Obligatory "I'm a newbie to laptops". Please excuse my lack of knowledge on the topic. Model: Dell G3 17" i5 8300h, gtx 1060 maxQ, 2 days old So after finding out that this model's cooling solution wasn't the best, hence the high GPU and CPU temps that hover anywhere from 72-85 degree celcius...

I have asus Rog laptop and the base socket where you screw down the heatsink screws is loose and came off as a result i am experiencing high temps because of loose connection between the processor and the heatsink , i am thinking of using epoxy adhesive to re paste the socket but confused...

Hi i have pc with Pentium 4 cpu but I don’t have a heatsink for it and i was planning to buy the stock intel LGA heatsink since it is cheap but im afraid it won’t work with it So i want to ask will it work with that CPU ?

Hi My laptop model is HP pavilion g6 1318ax with amd a4 3305m apu with radeon 6480g and a dedicated 7450m radeon GPU. I have been using my laptop for more than four years and it has never gone for a cleaning service.But lately I have been experiencing problems with the fan and the CPU temps...

Can someone tell me how to remove this heatsink so i can access the chip below it.

Which software can be used to measure the laptop heatsink (not cpu) temperature near the fan? Are there any alternate methods to measure the heat sink temperature (experimental or software based or by calculation)? Any website which might provide me charts/graphs/relations between cpu...

Hi guys, I got new Asus GL502VM from ao.com few days ago. I opened up the back cover and was shocked to see very badly scratched heatsink pipes. Both sides got scratches and the right one is even worse got like tiny dents as well. Anyone has seen something like this before? Does anyone know how...

I have a dell laptop i5-2450m , 4gb, 500gb, no graphic card except the inbuilt with the processor. Overclocking is disabled. I have been trying to run the Fifa 2011, which i think should run fine on my current configuration, but it is lagging. So while running Fifa i found the CPU utilization...

Hi Im using Alienware 15 R2, I had an issue where my laptop kinda hot. Here are some of the situations 1. I can feel the hot thru the fan wind even not doing anything 2. When heavy gaming, ex. BF4 on ultra it can get 70-60 fps..very smooth then not even 5 min playing it wud drop fps and in the...

I have home speakers for PC that worked normally for years. However, since few days ago, the left one (the passive one, that doesn't have any electronics inside), started humming all the time. It's very noticeable. Just to be sure I tried the following: - Switched them off from the PC -...

hi if someone could look at this pic and tell me whether i need a new heatsink i would be really grateful. i think fan has failed. after cleaning with compressed air and putting back together it shuts off after two mins. many many thanks.

So I bought myself a Lenovo G510 a while back mid 2013 and I got the highest spec I could at the time. My Specs are: i7-4700MQ which runs locked at 2.4Ghz 24/7 R7 M265 with an OC of about 25% 8GB of 1600mhz ram so a month after i got my laptop , I repasted the cpu and gpu with AS5 since i...

I am working on a friend's older Toshiba laptop, it is Intel I7 based. She bought it 4 or so years ago. It had worked fine until recently. It is apparently shutting down after being on about 5 minutes due to high CPU temp, my best guess from a bunch of troubleshooting. When starting work on...

I just bought Asus r558UQ and started playing some of my old games Like WATCH-DOGS , Witcher 2 and gta4. i usually play games on mid settings but i dont know why my " Laptop is Heating on Mid & low settings". There is no Glitch on high Settings or on medium settings . But Heating is a major...

I have Clevo P150SM with GTX 880m. My laptop was getting heat up so I decided to replace the thermal paste of the CPU and GPU. The CPU temp dropped but the GPU temp did not drop. It was still hanging around 93C. While playing battlefield 4, the GPU is 99% under load and after every 30 seconds or...

I am thinking to buy a new cpu heatsink for my T420s due to overheating issues. Is possible to exchange the heatsink with the T430s?

my laptop is the asus q550lf and i took it apart and ripped off a black strip of tape on the exhaust and i have no idea what it is here is a picture i found online of the heatsink with the tape on http://www.imsob.com/item-images/17/1723/172311/3/image1-10517231130036.jpg id like to know what...