Thermal Compound

I have an acer aspire 4738G which kept overheating. Decided to change the thermal compound after going thru loads of YouTube videos. However I discovered that the GPU does not contact the copper conductor at all, ie, I placed 2 small plastic sheet on the GPU and CPU, replaced the fan unit and...

My little brother's laptop kept overheating and he tried to play operation with it...... He took it apart, cleaned the vent and the fan but he didn't apply thermal paste on it. After a few weeks it started overheating and shuting down again. I took it apart, cleaned it again, applied thermal...

I have replaced my thermal paste a ton of times. My laptop I have owned since 09. Every time I applied new paste, the pc would run fine around 40 to 50 c, no issues. IN the past few years, it has over heated more and more. A few times ago, I saw the pads over the gpu and surrounding areas (must...

My computer shuts down when i enter in bios settings or do disk check.It reaches beyond 90 degree. I replaced thermal paste, even the problem persists.After replacing thermal paste twice. i run IntelBurnTest on standard mode with 1024 MB ram configuration.Both core's temperature reached to 87...

I bought a used laptop (Medion Erazer X6821). When I received and booted it up I heard the fan nearly the whole time. I blew all the dust out and replaced the thermal paste. After booting up the laptop again I noticed the temps were higher and the noisy fan was blowing all the time. I tried...

Greattings everyone, a week ago a purchase an used laptop wich i open to changue the thermal paste. When i was puting everything back, i accidentally use a wrong screw, a bigger one and that happend, see pic below. Well after that i try turning it on again but it wont boot and the processor...

Does anyone know what is the thickness of thermal pad in laptop Samsung NP-300 E5A or any similar laptop? I assume that the same thickness of pad is used in all Samsung laptops.

please i have disassembly my dv7 hp laptop and clean the heat sink but i dont have thermal paste to put on the cpu surface wha

Hello, please help. I have a problem with the temperature. more pictures laptop is cleaned, thermal compound: Arctic Cooling MX-2 Please help.

Yesterday I put in new thermal paste on my CPU and did better cable management in my system. I ran a stress test for an hour and the computer ran fine. When I was gaming on Arma 2 OA (Yeah I know, an oldie) everything was well until an hour later, I started getting static noise through my...

I saw a M15x for sale on ebay and the seller said it turns off after 20 mins. Seems to me like its overheating, think i can just clean out the vents and throw some new thermal paste on it ?

So I replaced my thermal paste today after experiencing lag about 10-20 minutes of playing Dead or Alive 5. The lag is now gone. after 1 hour of playing, the max temp of the GPU is around 75-84 degrees while gaming and for the CPU it's about 70-84 degrees. These are the idle temps exactly 3...

Disassembling an old laptop to check for damaged parts, and anything to salvage if so, and have found what looks like the culprit causing this old thing's death in the past. The graphics chip has small fragments of dust and what looks like tiny specs of plastic gathered around the outer edges...

Hey guys i have been experiencing in last month that my notebook runs very hot unlike past 1,5years i already had it.The temperateures increased for about 10C for gpu!!!cpu also but that cause of gpu increase.So there is something wrong with my gpu?can it be thermal paste?Guys most talk about...

Hey guys im worried if my fan is broken or just the thermal paste is worn?I know its hot and summer here and last year it raised my temps up to 78-79C for gpu but now i get a little above 85C which isnt probably with outside temperature related cause last year in 8 month it was even hotter and i...

Hello, After couple of years i wanted to clean my Acer from dust and applied new thermal paste. After cleaning the CPU is overheating, Fan cooler works and max RPM but it doesent blow hot air. CPU itself is 80 degrees Celcius hot but the heatsink and air is breeze. I was thinking that maybe i...

I recently took the terrible stock thermal paste off of my lenovo y50 and replaced it with some Arctic Silver 5. Before my max stressed temps were around 76?C. Now they spike to 95? right after starting the stress test, and then the laptop thermal throttles to 90. Is this normal for a fresh...

Just disassembled my laptop to apply thermal paste and Clean fan. Got this msg on bootup: Pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable Pxe-m0f: exiting Broadcom pxe rom No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key The keyboard works tho :) All cables, as far as I could tell when. I...

My laptop is overheating. I have installed a new fan and replaced the thermal paste .. still overheating !! .. IDPT check passes everything until the "CPU stress test" when the laptop shuts down, overheated. IDPT check shows temp at 40C below max .. but .. the "core temp" shows 90C just...

Hi guys, just wonderdring if anyone can help me with a problem basicly my laptop shuts down after 20 mins, no warning signs or anything just shuts off, i start it back up no error logs or anything my first thought was overheating, so i stripped it down, got the old duster out and gave it a...

Hello everyone. My Toshiba Satellite this week suddenly started to running slow. I have defraged the HDD, changed the thermal paste, cleaned the cooler, scanned for virus, cleaned all the computer with Advanced System Care and CCleaner, formated te pc and it is still running slow. Do you have...

Hi, I've had an laptop for 4 years, and recently GPU temps started going nuts, 100-110° (close to dying?) degrees when playing, and 60° when idle. Now as far as I know, that's not normal. I also have a cooling pad. So I bought thermal paste (Cheapest that they had - Arctic cooling MX-2). First...

how to change thermal paste cpu hp pro book 6555b ....i am worry

I have a Dell e6530 and I replaced my mobo 3 months ago. I never had overheating issues with my old mobo. For the past week, my laptop has been overheating and shutting down by itself. I always work on a hard surface. My fan is working. I am very confident that I seated the heatsink properly and...

Hello everyone, Today, when I using my laptop as usual, it suddenly freezed and I had to make a hard switch off. After that, when I tried to turn on, the sreen just show a black screen and it will not make it to boot screen. After searching for a while on the internet, I think there is a...

My laptop is a HP g6 2091ex. I have currently been experiencing overheating within the laptop. The cpu runs at around 60-70 degrees celsius on just stand by. It goes up to around 90-95 degrees when I try to play a game. Should I replace its thermal compound?

I have a gaming laptop, actually more like just a multimedia laptop. I brought it to the service center one time to have my RAM and SSD upgraded. The technician (who seemed to be not in his proper state of mind), lifted a foil-looking sheet inside my laptop. He seemed to have realized this...

laptop turns on seconds after disassembling lenovo z510.... fan working then it shuts down i tried every possible way maybe its the thermal paste ...its few

my girlfriend and I took apart her asus g74sx because it was idling at 80c. when we took it apart it became apparent to us that the thermal paste had been completely dried out. We then reapplied thermal paste to the cpu and gpu and put it back together. The fans are spinning and working but...

How hard is it to apply thermal paste to a laptop? I am planning on buying a Sager NP7339 from XoticPC and I saw that the IC Diamond paste was an extra $35. I heard that IC Diamond can scratch the CPU and that most companies usually botch the paste jobs anyway. As someone completely...

my almost new laptop now idles at around 70-90 degrees while talking on facebook and watching youtube. it is a toshiba satellite s70b with the intel i7-4710hq and the amd radeon r9 m265x. it has always been free of dust and on a hard surface(it only has 80 hours of running time) but it...

I have a Lenovo Ideapad z580. Which is a complicated piece of hardware for me to disassemble :/ I bought thermal paste recently to prevent the video chip from downclocking due to heat from gaming sessions (GeForce GT 630m 1GB) and I saw a video where I have to remove the ENTIRE motherboard to be...

Hi, About two weeks ago, I have been noticing that my HP Pavilion dv6-6000 series laptop had been overheating. I have cleaned the ventilation, replaced the thermal compound and cleaned the fan it self and I have since still been experiencing overheating. Upon further investigation, I have found...

So i have this alienware laptop, and on the GPU there is no Thermal paste/grease, the OEM uses these sticky pads (flat strips, sticky on both sides, exactly the size of the components). In the past i've had 2 GPUs die, the first was due to an assembly error which resulted in a screw landing on...

Hello, everyone. I have an HP G42 Laptop and it's running really hot. Idle temps are at the 60's. When doing something like extracting files with Winrar or winzip, it could reach up to 90. When it reaches 100 degrees C, it would shutdown. So I figured that it could be dried up thermal paste. So...

I bought a refurbished Dell Latitude about a month ago. Everything was going good until last week the laptop started getting much hotter than usual. Nothing overheating or anything, but it's been reaching 65 degrees from simple internet browsing there's no dust (used an air compressor...

Hey all, Time for the hourly post on core temperature concerns. As stated in the title, I have a Dell E6430 ATG with an i7-3740qm processor onboard- I had to rebuild this laptop (the subchassis was cracked clear through) and as I was rebuilding it, I noticed that the thermal paste was dried...

hello i have an HP ELITE BOOK 8530P and im going to have my uncle take the laptop apart remove the old thermal past and apply new thermal place but i have no clue whats the best thermal place to buy for a job like this i want the best of the best so my laptop will stay as col as it can so what...

Hi I have a ~4year old ASUS A52F laptop which has been running pretty hot recently. Around a year ago I had similar problems- gave it a good clean out and replaced the stock thermal paste with good results. I have found recently though that my motherboard temps are often hitting 70 degrees under...

Hello! So i've been using my laptop for 5 years now and recently i started having problems with it.Eventually it just died off, didnt even boot up anymore. I sent it to diagnostics and got an answer that my gpu (gtx485m) has fried. So i bought exact new one along with thermal paste. Got the gpu...

after cleaning the fan of my laptop and changing thermal paste my laptop started switching off mostly when playing games. it got reinstalled with a fresh windows so its not a software issue, i am not sure how to find out what ive done wrong when opening it so it could get fixed. ive tried many...

I was cleaning dust out of an old laptop and decided to re-do the thermal paste as well. It had never been done and machine was running hot. Toshiba satellite A25-S307, yes, old. I ran the computer and cleaned up files, ran defrag, shut down. Pulled the fan, and the heat sink released without...

So I disassembled my laptop to add some new thermal paste. After reassembling it, it wouldn't power on. No fans, no lights, nothing. At first when I plugged in the charger, the light indicating the charger was plugged into the laptop would turn on. I unplugged the charger from the wall and let...

omg its not fair im amazing at laptops but i cant fix my laptop basically on chrome it was getting 83 dergrees , so i thought thermal paste and clean dust i did this assembled it heard a high pitch noise from laptop charger , so tried another it had the same problem would not turn on no white...

Sager np8268-s with nvidia gtx970m and IC Diamond Thermal Compound I have had this laptop for about a month and games have been playing great, today I opened Hotkey control center for the first time to get to the keyboard customizer. I saw the different presets and selected performance then...

4.I measured the output on the ac adapter and it is working fine so that is no longer a possibility update 3: the middle block of the ac adapter is green and the led for the battery and ac adapter are white. the manual says this is good. However the lights are very dim. still no power update 2...

Hello guys! I recently stumbled upon a malfuncitoning 1215B, and everything seems to point to an overheating issue. As such, I'd like some feedback about this netbook in particular. 1. Could anyone provide me a link to a guide for taking apart this netbook? I know there are a lot out there...

last time i do to my pc is dissasemble it , cleaning all parts, change thermal paste on processor and then installing my new VGA. after that i try to turn on my PC and the left speaker isn't working, i try my speakers to my laptop the both speakers is working. and then i try to uninstalling...

I had my HP dv6 6177 laptop for like 4 years and did clean it regularly by blowing air with compressor in the fan vents. Two days ago I did open it as I read that It is better to change the thermal compound every year or two in case you play games and laptop keeps heating. I cleaned everything...

My laptop had some overheating issues, so i disassembled it, cleaned everything i could, put a new thermal paste on. Now it's idle temperature is much lower (from 80 C to 60 C) but if I watch a stream for example or do something other resources demanding, it spikes up immediatly and drops up and...

Hey guys, so yeah I have been experiencing heat issues with my laptop and I need opinions/recommendations for a good thermal compound/paste(I think its paste has been worn off) and a cooling pad. I am planning to buy the Cooler Master EFX1-TG15 Extreme Fusion X1. Is it nice? If you guys have...

Hi guys, I spilled liquid on my sager laptop about a year ago, it was fried. It needed a mobo replacement which costs me an arm and leg lol. But here's the thing, after it got back from the repair shop i noticed the temps were a bit higher than before the spill. I didn't think much of it...

I'm wondering whether the price difference is very much "worth it" here. I can get a stronger card (970M) and free upgrades to 1C Diamond thermal compound and 30-day dead pixel warranty if I get the 8278-S. The price is about 190 higher. To upgrade the 8278 with the 970M is $200, and thermal...

Ok, I have a rather old laptop and: - I replaced the fan with a brand new one - Cleaned the heat sink (there was a lot of dust!) - Removed old and replaced with new Thermal paste I still don't understand why my laptop's fan goes to like 6000 RPM even if the temperature is like 40 deg C. Is...

Hey guys, I have a Dell XPS 15 L502X. Specs: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20 GHz 6 GB RAM GeForce GT 525M Samsung EVO 240 GB SSD (installed awhile back, was working perfectly fine) Windows 8.1 Background: My screen was flashing on and off, switching between black screen and turning...

I have a laptop that is somewhat old, I guess from December of 2010. Definitely out of warranty and no support. The laptop has recently been running very hot. The fan blows fast like an airplane taking off most of the time. I checked online and I read that I might be able to open up the...

Hello everyone! This is a long post but bare with me, its an interesting one. I recently traded my old modded xbox 360 for a roughly 1 year old laptop without a charger on craigslist. Without having the charger, I knew there was a high probability it could not work. I ordered the charger and...

Hello Recently my laptop has been spiking temps first idling at 30-40 centigrade now jumping to 60 in idle state some people in locale advised me to change the thermal paste The link and images below show the Model and temps at idle of my laptop Any Help regarding the matter would he highly...

I heard the cooling is not the greatest, but if i go through xotic pc, i can get extra copper and good thermal paste. Is it worth it?

Dear all, Based on your experience i would like to ask whether is it possible to cool down the chipset on an old toshiba sattelite A300 laptop. I opened it and cleaned the fan and all but still the chipset when in an idle state is around 60 degrees. (Room temperature is around 30-35 degrees)...