To repaste or not?

[w.f.knight055]

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?

 

[easwar2641993]

Since you have already taken apart your heat sink, you will need a repaste.before placing the heat sink. Besides, this is not the right way you could have done to check thermals. You need to stress your CPU+GPU using some benchmark tools and check temperature using software such as HWMonitor.

 

[asoroka]

but yes there was way too much thermal paste in the first place.

Make sure that you clean it off properly and only add a drop on each chip.

More is not better

 

[w.f.knight055]

Since you have already taken apart your heat sink, you will need a repaste.before placing the heat sink. Besides, this is not the right way you could have done to check thermals. You need to stress your CPU+GPU using some benchmark tools and check temperature using software such as HWMonitor.

Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind going forward. I have done extensive stress testing with an undervolt applied and have been hitting an average temperature when gaming of 85 degrees with frequent spikes to 100, I should have been clearer about that in the OP.

 

[easwar2641993]

Since you have already taken apart your heat sink, you will need a repaste.before placing the heat sink. Besides, this is not the right way you could have done to check thermals. You need to stress your CPU+GPU using some benchmark tools and check temperature using software such as HWMonitor.

Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind going forward. I have done extensive stress testing with an undervolt applied and have been hitting an average temperature when gaming of 85 degrees with frequent spikes to 100, I should have been clearer about that in the OP.

In that case, you will definitely need a re paste. :lol: