Thermal Compound

Is it safe to remove the kapton tape and them put it back in from CPU and GPU? Some of the old thermal paste which dried got stuck under the tape should I remove that thermal paste from underneath or it won't affect performance?

Hi guys, I have this old ASUS PEM that I recently got out to use, I cleaned it out, changed the thermal paste, everything was almost new, never had much use, but I'm noticing heat, 65 on idle, around 72-73 browsing, I've noticed that the fan just runs slowly, it doen's kick in at any time for no...

So my laptop is Acer aspire v15 nitro black edition vn7-593g, It has i7-7700HQ, GTX 1060 6gb and 16gb of ram and 500gb hard disk. Been playing since day 1, lately been turning off unexpectedly, so I replaced thermal paste, and still the same, now I replaced once more, and the thermal gums all...

As the title says, I cleaned my old thermal paste from my cpu and applied a new one, after i did that, i connected everything the way it should be connected, my power supply works, the cpu fan works as well, gpu works, but im still getting blackscreen, i tried unplugging ram/gpu and all that...

Hi guys, would really need some help here as I'm basically experience a laptop problem and attempting to fix it while I'm on holidays (frequent usage basically). So pretty much as the title says, I've had the problem ever since I've disassembled and reassembled the laptop. It was an attempt to...

Feels like its radiating from the Video card. Dust free and new thermal paste. Am I about to blow up my GTX 850m? Or will it survive games? Everywhere else was far cooler.

I have an asus rog gl552v. I7 6700hq 8gb ram, 960m 2gb. I was playing csgo and my temps would be around 90 degrees with jumps up to even 98 as highest I decided to change the thermal paste, after opening up the laptop to the bare bone I found a crack beside the cpu and got worried...

I bought MSI GL62M 7REX about a year ago with i7-7700HQ and GTX 1050 Ti 4gb, but i noticed that my laptop run slower than any laptop with similar configuration (i got ~690cb on cinebench r15 multicore performance), and my cpu sitting at 60-70 degree Celsius on idle. is it normal or something's...

hello, been running into trouble recently with my Acer 5755g's detecated graphics card GT 630m, whenever i start a game's campagin or a multiplayer match, i get the error " GT 630M is not removable and can't be unplugged or ejected" and my PC freezes after about 10 seconds. I sent it to a...

Hi everyone , So after seeing my laptop (ASUS ROG GL502VM) go to temperatures above 90c I though that I just needed to replace the thermal paste (I thought no Biggie I've done that before on computers ). So I bought Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut (made sure it wasn't electrically conductive ) and I...

My pc shutdown while watching a streaming movie. I checked the thermal paste and it looks dried or wasted. My pc won't turn on but the psu is working. Would reapplying help or is the shut down something deeper?

I opened my laptop to do some dusting because the fans were getting loud on idle. While it was opened, I wanted to replace the thermal paste on the cpu to help with the fan noise. I can only find the fans for the air vent and not the cpu fan unless it is under the mobo. Picture I'm guessing the...

Hello. I've got problem with Acer Aspire 5742g. It turns off extacly after 4m57s - everytime. Is doesn't matter if i enter BIOS, or let Windows to load - it is 4min57s no matter what. I have disassembled it, cleaned fan, changed thermal pads and thermal paste. I didn't notice any signs of...

Hi everyone, I'm having quite a few thermal issues with my laptop (Lenovo Y510P) - mainly under full load. It is now about 4-5 years old and I'd like to repaste the CPU and both GPUs. I was considering using the Noctua NT-H1 but I did some research and it turns out that it undergoes the...

Hi i tried changing my thermal paste on my EVGA SC15 Laptop because it was getting really hot CPU was hitting about 85-88° and GPU about 80° no thermal throttling but the fans were really loud and my room would get really how after 1 hour or playing so i changed the paste connected everything...

So i aplied some mx4 on my laptop cpu and gpu (im not a newbie) cleaned my fan, mounted and it worked, -10c on cpu and -5c on gpu, my brother played for 30min, then went to bed, today (next day) he played a couple of hours, then he turned of the laptop, 1h later, he came back and the laptop wont...

Hello there. I have this laptop from about 3-4 years and I have never replaced its thermal compound. Now that is summer, my inner room's temperature is about 30-32°C and my laptop is running quite hot. While I'm writing here it's stuck at 50°C but in about 20/30 minutes of a soft game session...

The PC has an i7 6700HQ, all drivers and also the bios are up to date. I was having heavy thermal throttling recently then I decided to repaste both the CPU and the GPU. I used a CoolerMaster brand thermal paste, done it nicely and closed the heatsink in place very firmly. Also dusted and...

Hello guys, So I got 2 old laptops that got pretty slow and a bit hot. I decided to both get them an ssd (I have to remove the old HDD to apply this), clean the dust inside them, and to reapply the old thermal paste with a newer and better one to eliminate heat and make them boot and run...

So I just bought a new laptop in Malaysia model number is MSI GP63-8RE-299MY. I am going get a shop to repaste for me I was told to get my own stuffs. I am confuse they told me to notebook use thermal pads for cpu/gpu? I already bought Grizzly Kryonaut. Do I need buy Thermal pads too? I thought...