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Scandalous!
Biostar did quite a good job of putting thermal paste on, unlike BFG (Big F!@#ing Goop.) Still, there was room for a 3 degree improvement (Celsius, of course!)
Remember, less is more. And that's not what she said.
P.S. Yes, the card is balanced on the 120 mm side panel fan. Yes, I thought I killed the card. It artifacted for two days afterward. BUT GUESS WHAT? IT WORKS NOW, AND IT'S COOLER THAN BEFORE. AND IT'S OVERCLOCKED TO 740 MHz core/1189 MHz memory WITH NO VOLTAGE INCREASE (and I know I can go a bit further on the memory.) BITE ME.
I was experiencing some heat related issues on my mabook pro and I finally decided to open up the damn thing and thoroughly clean the heatsink and vents.
The heatsink is actually below the motherboard so to clean it I had to unplug all the cables and unscrew the motherboard to get to the heatsink
Thermal paste will need to be reapplied. I have read that thermal paste has a limited life, 3 - 4 years and this laptop is almost 4 years old now. I ordered some arctic silver 5 and am waiting on it.
Looks like the people at apple had applied far too much thermal paste here.
The forum poster who described burnishing the CPU with thermal paste also wrote that he was trained to lay down thermal paste on the heat exchanger in a spiral pattern, so that any air bubbles could escape. The more I thought about this, the less I liked it. If you pushed a deformable, convex surface into the center of the spiral, perhaps it would chase any air bubbles around and out of the maze as you compressed it. However, the poster described a procedure of placing one edge of the heat exchanger in contact with one edges of the CPU, and gradually lowering it until the two flat surfaces were parallel and separated only by a thin layer of thermal paste. In this context, wouldn't parallel lines of thermal paste, perpendicular to the initially touching edges, release air bubbles better? For the spiral approach to work, I guessed that large air bubbles might burst through spiral lines, and that smaller bubbles must not matter that much.
The spiral approach also had the advantage of more even thermal paste distribution if I squeezed the stuff out of the tube too quickly and ran out before completing the pattern. All the paste would be more or less evenly distributed about the center point of the heat exchanger, so if I just placed this on the CPU, parallel, and pressed straight down, I'd probably get a fairly even distribution of paste. If I drew parallel lines of thermal paste and ran out, the distribution would be lopsided and harder to squeeze out consistently.
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This is the inside of a clients PC. He said the thing would just freeze up on him all the time.
Well I did some testing and found that it was idling at 55°C. It's a 1GHz AMD Duron!
Pulled off the heatsink and this is what I found. What a mess! How not to apply thermal grease/paste.
Well it's a busy day at work and times flies by, but I can still take a free moment from time to time to appreciate what's around me- even if it's an underground closet.
There is dust collected here as well. This needs to be cleaned up. I didn't have compressed air at hand.
I've only used this stuff once before. I squeezed a couple of drops out of the tube to see what it would look like and how it would handle.
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We've taken apart the latest #Macbook Pro #Retina used by #TFix #MD and guess what, the quality of #thermalpaste isn't best. Even with the usage of just a few months it is dry and does not have sufficient heat transfer. We suggest get your MBP serviced and at least re-paste it.
My 2009-built Intel i7 920 needed new thermal paste since it was starting to overheat. The old paste (original from Intel heatsink) was completely dried up.
My piece of crap laptop *spits* has started overheating and shutting down AGAIN.
It's been about 8 months since i last did the thermal paste dance on it , 3 months since i was last able to play a game for more than 30 minutes without it overheating :|
My 2009-built Intel i7 920 needed new thermal paste since it was starting to overheat. The old paste (original from Intel heatsink) was completely dried up.
My 2009-built Intel i7 920 needed new thermal paste since it was starting to overheat. The old paste (original from Intel heatsink) was completely dried up.
My 2009-built Intel i7 920 needed new thermal paste since it was starting to overheat. The old paste (original from Intel heatsink) was completely dried up.
Cleaning my two XFX nVidia 8800 GTs because they were overheating.
This is the re-applied thermal paste (Arctic Silver 5). Net effect? Still running hot, no apparent change. Is it making good enough contact with the heat sink, or is my case too hot?
The three grey linear patches are "thermal paste," and improves the contact point of the CPU to the cooling assembly. It can't be re-used so if you screw-up while assembling, you'll have to clean it up and re-apply... kind of like those wax rings when you install a new toilet.
My 2009-built Intel i7 920 needed new thermal paste since it was starting to overheat. The old paste (original from Intel heatsink) was completely dried up.
My 2009-built Intel i7 920 needed new thermal paste since it was starting to overheat. The old paste (original from Intel heatsink) was completely dried up.
After I removed the heat sink and brackets, I found a moth on the processors on my damaged motherboard. I'm almost 100% certain the moth wasn't the cause of the spark (much less original damage) but it reminded me of Grace Hopper's original physical manifestation of a computer bug.