Thermal Compound

So I've recently decided to buy a new laptop and decided on a clevo P870DM-G from ava direct. I've never build a custom laptop and have had a lot of questions recently and Google isn't quite specific enough to help me out. Any tech-savvy people out there? Main questions are which SSD to load the...

So i've had this laptop for about a year and a half now. within the last few months i was having thermal trip issues. i replaced the thermal paste and it seems to have fixed that issue and i found no more errors in my logs. Although, the same time that was happening i was also getting random...

Hi all, I have a Pavilion DV6 3032TX laptop that has been pulled apart and had new thermal paste applied but after a while I saw no improvements and the thing is getting very hot still so I removed the heat sink and fan and found that the copper heat sink is not touching the full area of the cpu...

My laptop will shut itself off whenever I watch YouTube video. There would be no shutdown screen, it would just go black and restart again. I had cleaned the fan and reapplied the thermal paste. However, it didn't help. Thanks for any help and idea!!! :)

So I recently cleaned out my laptop, just generally got rid of dust and replaced any thermal paste and such. Once I closed it up, I booted up my laptop to check my temperatures. It then froze at the Windows 7 boot logo and when I restarted my laptop, it had a winload.exe missing error. Obviously...

Recently I changed the thermal paste on my MacBook. This did require me to remove the logic board. The process went well and the MacBook is now cooling properly. One problem though, the MacBook won't sleep when I put the lid down. I've resettled the smc and pram without success. Any ideas...

SOLUTION: Answer lies in overclocking. This video have helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GiF1rrWK7U After this fix I had maximum temp of CPU 84 Celsius and average 71-74 during gaming with higher presets than before. Hello everyone. I have faced with CPU overheating while playing 4...

See what is happening my computer suddenly started having 65degree Celsius to 70 degree on cpu and 55 degree to 60 degree on gpu.this happens after 1 month of gta online .I think the thermal compound has dried maybe not or dust on fan something HELP

I have a Samsung r 522 laptop. It had a very serious heating issue ,.I .E, every few minutes about 20 minutes the laptop would shut itself even though the fan is spinning. So I decided to change the thermal paste. I dismantled the laptop and saw the heatsink fully covered with dust and removed...

Hello there, I am having some issue with my old Hewlett-Packard Compaq 6910p, the issue are as below: 1: The wi-fi was disabled after a major service and I am having trouble to re-enable it. I have browsed the internet for solution but still no luck, none of it work. 2: The chipset was very hot...

I have an MSI Dominator Pro 17' gaming laptop. I modified it with Intel Core i7-4930MX, 768GB RAID 0 (3 x Samsung PM851 256GB mSATA SSD), Kingston HyperX 32GB Dual Channel DDR3L at 1866MHz, etc. (Running Windows 7 Pro) My problem is that it runs HOT! I just had my computer cleaned and Silicon...

I have bought a "gaming" laptop (G501JW) about a year ago, and i have experienced a lot of GPU throttling while gaming. I know its a thin laptop, but i payed a lot so i didn't expect such a bad performance. I have monitored my GPU clocks and as soon as the temps hit 79 °C (after 5 minutes of...

Hey man, I have an old ux31a and ive just used it recently for light gaming. Games like terraria, and some other light on graphic games. I have replaced my thermal pasting recently on my cpu, i asked a technician to do it since i barely know how to strip of an ultrabook and place it back again...

Please lemme know if I need to change my thermal compound. My HP Probook's fan runs at full speed but does not throw heated ai

Hi there, I need your opinion guys. I took my ASUS N56V Series (i7 3630QM, Geforce 740M, 8gb ram) to a service point (with apparent awesome reviews online) for a prophylactic dusting and cleaning since I had it for two years and my mate told me it's good to do it due to all the crap gathering...

Hey all, First i want to say Sorry for my English grammer. At the moment my fan is not Always turning on when it should. It sometimes turns on And sometimes gives a warning that the fan is nog working properly. But whenever i stimulate it to go on (by vacuüm cleaner or giving it a little spin)...

I bought this laptop long time ago , in june 2011 and I've never changed the paste , only used the vacuum on the cooler to clean it from time to time from dust , these are the temps I get now, 79C in flash browser games and while browsing temps are 45-55C at 21C ambient temp. That's the cpu temp...

My Alienware is overheating and once it gets to 75*C, its performance is seriously affected. Only when it gets back to 60*C does the performance return to the level it should be. In my research, I found the problem could be the thermal paste has dehydrated to the point it can no longer absorb...

I have a M6300 Dell. An old laptop that was working fine. Yesterday I decided to to have a routine service.I dissembled it in order to replace the thermal paste on both CPU and GPU processors. After I cleaned the fans,cleaned the surface of both chips, I put a good thermal paste and put it back...

Hi, how to correctly apply thermal paste to laptop? Spread paste with card, or let heatsink to do that? How much use, bit, or more? And what paste you can recommend? Any recommendations in this job?

Hi, I have dell vostro 3750. I changed thermal paste few times, but I think is still hot. Also my hdd is died few weeks ago. So I wanna ask, can bad hdd rise cpu and gpu temps? I use arctic silver 5, somewhere heard, that is good choice, but I don't know that is good for copper - aluminum cooler...

I was monitoring temperature during a 3dmark11 basic test. Is this a good result or do I need to clean up and reapply thermal paste? Please check RealTemp screenshot here: http://prnt.sc/ch26kw and look at max values which were recorded during the test. CPU-Z info: http://prnt.sc/ch28py GPU...

My laptop keeps shutting down unexpectedly and im unsure of what to do. I have cleaned it with air spray, taken it apart and cleaned the fan, and replaced the thermal paste. I know someones going to say its overheating which is why ive taken a video and uploaded it to youtube here...

I want to buy asus g73jh,and I want to reaplied thermal paste on gpu and cpu.Which thermal paste is better: Arctic silver 5 or MX-2?For me is important any degree.Thanks,

I have an Acer Aspire 4738zg and it overheats after 30 minutes. I have checked if there was any spots that were hot, no spots were hot. I've applied thermal paste on the cpu and the gpu but it still overheats. Someone give me a solution ASAP please!

Hello, so my HP DV6 (2012, AMD Trinity) laptop will not start after taking it apart for thermal paste replacement. I fought the urge to take it and smash it and came here instead. After replacing the paste and putting it back together the first time, I tried starting it and the fan would run...

I just opened up my laptop as it was over heating. I found the thermal paste pretty much as is in the pictures.this is after I cleaned the surface with arcticlean. My question is, should I clean around the sides and remove more thermal paste?I just don't think I can without risking damaging a...

Hey, so recently ( yesterday) I disassembled my HP Pavilion g6 for cleaning and to aply a new layer of thermal paste. Everything went well and i applied the new layer of thermal paste. I re assembled the laptop and when pushed the power button, it wouldn't power on. I disassembled it and made...

http://imgur.com/a/lh7IW it looks like this when I put my laptop back on, I put some thermal paste because it's overheating..now it became like this...PLEASE HELP! THIS LAPTOP CONTAINS A LOT OF DATA T^T Acer Aspire 4745G Ati Radeon Mobility HD 5650

hello everyone , i'm new at this forum.So i live in a small town and people here can't really solve problem and don't know much.So i thought i'd ask on this forum. Last couple of days , my laptop is overheating . I don't know what is the problem . I play cod 4 : modern warfare and after just...

Hey, as in title, what is this pad, I assume it's for cooling purposes, can I replace it with thermal paste? I'm just trying to revive this old machine I'm gonna use in my workshop, and it got HOT during normal operation, so I stripped it down, cleaned all the parts out of dust and want to...

Hi, My laptop was heating up a bit too much (temperature above 90’s in normal load, and sometimes shutting down after hitting 100C), so I finally decided to open up my Dell XPS 15 (L502X) and replace the thermal paste. I have few questions: When I opened it up, apart from the thermal paste on...

I watched a video on how to replace the CPU of a E6400 in order to figure out how easy it is to access the CPU, it seems all i gotta do is remove the heat sink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYVWVieailQ I installed thermal paste on desktop CPUs, but I'm not sure if you can use them for...

Hello everyone. I bought a while ago (almost a year) a Proteus II (link from a review) from Pc Specialist in UK and today i decided to open it and change the thermal paste to a better one. Somehow i broke one of the two fans. It doesn't spin at all and the fan itself can be detached from the...

I've been experiencing this problem for a while now. Whenever I play games. (Warframe,CSGO, Dota 2, etc) By the time I leave the Main Menu of the game and start playing my laptop dies like it just turns off without warning. I think it is because of overheating problems. So I took it to a repair...

I've done quite a bit of research recently to understand what testing has been done relative to laptop processors and thermal compounds. The majority of thermal compound testing that I've seen has been for desktop/workstation processor between the IHS and the copper/aluminum/nickel...

Greetings y'all, lately my 2 year old laptop has been overheating really bad ( 200f / 93c) so yesterday i decided to clean my laptop and apply a new thermal paste unfortunately that's when the real trouble began so here is what i did and what happened: First i opend up the laptop...

My Macbook 13" late 2008 trackpad firstly stopped moving after i replaced the thermal paste so i tried to reconnect the cable a couple of times but when reconnecting the cable i accidentally pressed to hard on the back and cracked the keypad and the mouse still doesn't move! i can get a...

I will be traveling from the USA to India and while I've been home I bought some Thermal paste for my gaming computer back in my college in India. What is the protocol for getting this stuff through TSA? Do I have to check it in and declare it? Or can i simply put it in a plastic bag and stick...

Hello all, I recently added some new thermal paste to my Lenovo X60. Upon putting it back together, I have noticed that 7 out of the 9 lights on the LCD don't work. I've gone through the laptop again and can't find any cable not plugged in, so it's beyond me for what is wrong. Blue is what...

Hello guys, My laptop has started using the fan more than usual and it is getting annoying, I have cleaned it inside but it is still the same. I have core i5 3230M and i am getting 60-75C with only using Firefox for surfing. I am considering it as high for my usability, right? The summer hasn't...

Bottom of my laptop heats a lot.Idle laptop temperatures are 54-61 degrees. I recently replaced stock thermal paste with coolermaster IC essential E2 in hope of improvement but still heating. My Laptop is ASUS K55VM-SX086V.In gaming temperatures reach 70+.

I have an 5 years old Asus A52JE notebook which has the following problem. The hinge was broken and I decided I will repair it. When I disassembled the device I realized that the thermal paste also very dried so I removed it also but I haven't got any spare at home so I fully assembled the...

Replaced the stock thermal paste on an HP 15-AB125AX (AMD A10-8700P with R6 GPU and AMD R7 M360) with Cooler Master's paste. With an ambient temp of 30 degrees centigrade (+/-2), my CPU is running at around 45 - 50 degree centigrade on idle. I did a stress test using AIDA64, the temp stays...

Hello, I'm not sure where to post this, but here goes: Simple question really - can you recommend a trustworthy, good quality and preferably inexpesive repair person in London? There's nothing actually wrong with my laptop except it's dusty and has started to over heat, I would like it...

It's been +1 year since my laptop Dell Inspiron 15 3537 has got it's mobo replaced. It's still having the stock shipped thermal paste. And I feel like the temperatures are rising a bit( Upto 78-82 degrees Celsius ). Is it the time to change the thermal paste ? Also the fan is making a weird...

Hey forum, I'm really looking at buying an alienware laptop soon. I might wait for the next gen gpu's but I will see what the future brings. I hear from tons of people having overheating issues with their brand new laptops from AW but would the staff there be willing to use different thermal...

Hi all, so i'm all out of options on what to do with my laptop which is a Hp Pavilion dv6-1359wm and its over heating issues which is very weird. I can do normal stuff like surf the web and watch videos and stream movies but when I play games such as League of Legends or Hearthstone, my pc...

Hey guys. My dad has a laptop with Pentium P6200, when I launch MSI Kombustor on it it heats up to 79C but does not thermal throttle and stays at its 2.13 Ghz, why is that so?

I have a Lenovo y50-70 which has more or less run normally until a few weeks ago, when I noticed the GPU would suddenly spike up to 80-90 *C on a game that it would normally run at 65*C. This obviously caused performance problems and fps issues. I thought it might be dust/ old thermal paste, so...

The fan on my 2 year old HP Dv7-6c10eo laptop has started to spin fast pretty much all the time that my computer is on, even when doing nothing, or when doing light work, like watching a movie in VLC, listening to music, or surfing forums. I've opened it up to clean it, but there was no dust...

I need your help chieftains and gods in laptop hardware department. I am trying to clean this laptop HP i3 Pavilion 15b001ee. Which among them is GPU, CPU? What are those things encricled in red? Where should I apply thermal paste? Also, what are the things i need besides thermal paste and...

I have owned this laptop for around nearly 5 years, though it has been having heating problems which resulted into the laptop overheating at times, but never anymore and gets really hot. P.S It burnt my leg one time too. So, I thought that maybe the fan was clogged since I could hear it still...

I am about to order a Clevo laptop and the reseller said they do not apply thermal paste to this unit because the CPU/GPU are soldered onto the motherboard. Are they right? Or should the thermal paste be applied anyway? If not, can someone explain why?

Hi everyone ! I have some issue that I aware that could happen since 3 years I buy my rig ..MY LAPTOP JUST GET STUTTER SLOWLY WHEN PLAYING ANY VIDEO GAMES!! *ehmm* So my problem already appear about one month ago, when i just very excited to download some "big data" via torrent coz i usually...

Before I give my problem let me first explain what I did. My laptop CPU core temps were always very different. Sometimes I would see that core 1 is running up to 10 degrees hotter than core 2, even when idle. So today I decided to fix this. I have a tube of Cooler Master IC Value lying around...

Dear tom'sGuide users, I have been looking for a solution to cure my laptop from overheating. I have then finally decided to reapply a new thermal compound Arctic mx4 on my GPU and CPU. After successfully doing that, I have reinstalled every wire and started the computer. After a while, it...

I bought zeroTherm thermal paste for my desktop but i was wondering if i could also use it on my laptop cpu. I have read somewhere desktop thermal paste is different than laptop's. Not sure is it true

hi. I have a repair shop in India and I am thinking of offering Laptop cleaning solution for my customers. Need some insight on what cleaning tools and solutions I should purchase. We can clean optical drive Outer Body Fan Apply Thermal Paste. Etc. This is like general service which we...

hi.i have a samsung np550p5c-s05tr and nvdia 650m gpu.in the game my gpu increase 90C.i tried change thermal paste and i cleaned my laptop but it still same.