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Changing thermal paste
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I want to change my laptop's thermal paste cause it's ridiculously overheating, I know it's pretty easy to put on thermal paste the first time you put the CPU on cause I've done that before, so my question is how do you take the old thermal paste off? and is there a possibility that I could mess up the CPU so bad that it wouldn't work afterwards?
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the chances of messing up your cpu are pretty slim, pretty much the only way to damage it removing and re-applying paste would be to accidently bend some of the pins on the bottom
There's also solutions that you can buy that will do a "better" job, such as this, but its benefits are negligible.
Physical damage to a CPU is pretty hard to do outside of bending pins, but make sure to touch metal things to ground yourself so you don't zap your CPU with static. The odds of that happening are pretty slim too, but be safe.
to put it bluntly....no
that's not necessarily true. putting higher-quality thermal paste or grease to replace the gunk manufacturers usually use on their systems will help cool your CPU much more efficiently. however, if the entire thing is overheating, you may want to also check if the laptop's internal fans might have stopped working or if there's an excess of dust inside the system. airflow is as important as the thermal grease.
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This along with making sure you don't get any tiny gobs of paste on the mobo, Make sure the cloth is one that doesn't leave particles, IE terry cloth.
Other than that, not much to it, Don't use obscene amounts of paste when reapplying.
I cleaned the fans about 6 months ago, I mean it idles at 54-58 and if I'm watching a mere youtube video it goes to 68, then eventually to 74 and thus turning off, and it's impossible to play any games on it.
wow, that's abnormal. well, for paste/grease, you really can't go wrong with arctic silver 5 OR 6. you only need a very thin layer of the stuff and it works like a charm. the main thing is to make sure you thoroughly clean the heatsink surface and the cpu core surface (the small black square on the top of the chip) before applying the new grease. arctic silver's website should have a really good set of instructions on proper application.
i'd also make absolutely sure the fan on your heatsink is still working...
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Still grumblin'.
Another quick question, how would I take the heatsink off the CPU without breaking anything?
And will this fix my problem?
I was thinking of making a liquid cooling contraption sorta thing if this didn't work.
I have a Presario X1000 notebook, , I believe they are similar, and when I run the thing under load the area around the CPU becomes warm, but it's still ticking 4 years later with no issues.
EDIT: ya, I did totally miss it. That is a bit warm, but I stand by my statements on the heat dissapation.
Some manufacturers use thermal transfer compound that also acts as glue, in which case you can't do it.
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