Thermal Compound

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...