Thermal Compound

I have year old laptop that I have been using and although everything works fins it overheats like crazy! I have repasted undervolted and use a cooling pad to try to dissipate the heat. Most games I cannot play now including csgo pubg and even league. On these games with the lowest settings, I...

I have never repasted a laptop before and wanted to ask the community if a repaste would help my thermals, according to the pictures attached (this is the factory paste job). Repaste or am I fine?

Hello everyone, here's my laptop config and my problem 17 R4 (Alienware) i7 7820HK @ 2.8ghz 32gb DDR4 2400 GTX 1080 8gb GDDR5x It's not a myth, Dell put ridiculous thermal paste on Alienware laptops. L've recently got mine repasted by a pro. It was 2 weeks ago, and since then everything...

I recently cleaned my lap top from dust and replaced the thermal paste.Also i reinstalled my windows like a week ago, and i bought a cooling pad.However my lap top still runs too hot, while idle on desktop the temp is around 60~62 C,surfing the web on chrome with 5-6 tabs open 70~74 C and while...

Lenovo is known to be a go-to brand when it comes to building reliable and well-priced laptops. They seem to have pretty much every segment of the market covered with their laptops. Sometimes you can come across unusual issues. This tutorial will show you how to resolve a buzzing fan in your...

Like a well-oiled machine, if you maintain the laptop performing regular maintenance runs the laptop can see its useful lifespan increased as well as being a crucial hardware during a mission critical event. This tutorial will show you to replace the thermal grease in your Lenovo Thinkpad. 1...

With latest breakthroughs in lithography and performance numbers packed into a small die, it’s not unusual to come across a laptop that might seem like an ultrabook but in essence it’s capable of delivering some good visuals when gaming. This tutorial will show you how to improve your gaming...

I have one of their newer predator 15 models (G9 593) and it runs way too hot. I am not really in a position to be able to send the unit back and I'd like to keep this one as it has all of my information along with the fact that, aside from the temperatures, it works very well. Does anybody know...

just cleaned my laptop and replaced the thermal paste, this is the 3rd time I replaced the paste, then i did not get any signal to my laptop monitor which was odd. The laptop was powering on and the fan was spinning so I connected a external monitor thru HDMI and it displayed fine. So I thought...

I have a overheating Sony Vaio laptop and was planning on taking it apart and replacing the thermal paste. Doing research I found out that the heatsink on my laptop has three metal bases. Two with copper and one with another material, it also has black squares (thermal pads?). I am wondering...

I bought a prebuilt pc that had some screws missing from the fan and a cheap off brand psu so ive checked everything else in the pc but the heatsink. The cpu is an i7 7700k with a corsair h60 liquid cooler. Ive had the pc for about 5 months and daily have long gaming sessions. If they had forgot...

Spec: CPU: i7 6700hq 2.60Ghz GPU: gtx960m 2gb Storage: Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 250gb and Hitachi 1tb HDD Ram: 16gb DDR3 Alright so this laptop is pretty old estimated 2-3 years but recently I have noticed that the temperatures have been higher than I would like it to be. While idle it is...

The laptop in-question is the Sager NP8157 (Clevo P650HS-G) 1. There are two cpu options, a i7-7700HQ and a i7-7820HK. Considering that the graphics option, a GTX 1070, is a fixed option, how big of a performance difference is there and is it worth $125? 2. The default ram option is 16GB (2x8...

My laptop has been serviced recently (cleaned + thermal paste changed). But about 2 weeks back it started overheating with nothing running. There were some windows updates that were being downloaded i thought i could be because of them. I use a dual booted system and when i boot to linux, laptop...

My specs: ASUS R556uqk i5 7th gen 2.5GHz 8GB RAM Nvidia 940mx windows 10 I have been getting cpu throttling for about 2 months now. Earlier it was just for gaming but now even watching a video on youtube causes system to get laggy every 15 minutes. Cleaning and changing thermal paste had almost...

I haven't dusted my laptop in 2 years now (my apartment s very dusty)and the temps on the cpu are hitting 93 degrees so I think its time. I want to lower the temps more by changing the thermal paste too. I keep hearing people saying that the MX 4 thermal paste is great but it has 8.5W/mk while I...

Im not new to computers, which is why i dont know why i cant get the temps to go down, I have applied new thermal paste, i have cleaned the heatsinks, i have cleaned the fans. Idle its 46-50 and on load its 80-90, thats not UBER hot but its enough for throttling, its an I7 5700HQ in an MSI ge 72 2qf

Hello everybody, I'm reaching out to you guys because I see a lot of good forum topics about similar problems. I've tried a lot of thing but my laptop still won’t turn on. Sorry for any bad English i hope u guys can understand what I’m talking about. My laptop: Asus N56JN-CN035H Vram: 2GB...

So the other day I got a cheap 'gaming' laptop of gumtree for £250. It is an ASUS K550JX with i7-4720hq and a GTX 950m 4gb with 8gb RAM. I installed a SSD and reinstalled windows and downloaded a game. My CPU and GPU was getting over 90c! So I took the laptop apart and replaced the thermal...

Hi everybody, My 4-year-old HP envy laptop (dv6-7245) was frequently crashing due to overheating, so I decided to clean the fan and apply new thermal paste. I fully disassembled the laptop to access the fan, from which I removed a thick layer of dust. Then I removed the old thermal paste from...