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?