Great video up until you put the pad on the CPU, you'll have poor temps with that setup :( Thermal pads are not for CPUs, unless they are special extra-thin graphite ones (have a look). Put some decent thermal paste on the cpu after cleaning, I'd recommend Artic MX4 or 5 as they have no curing time and good performance. With thermal paste, less is more and it will spread out when given sufficient pressure. I'm about to do this process myself and I believe the pad thickness you need for the VRMs is 1mm (the three lumps which had the thermal pad on before), which is what you're actually meant to use the thermal pad for.
Thanks for the video. Regarding grease vs. pads, I have read that the grease is better (will give you a lower temperature) than a pad. What I've ALSO read is, having a really bad/old/degraded grease application or pad is WAY WORSE than having ANY intact thermal solution. So from worst to best, it would be an old/degraded prior application (might be almost useless), followed by a new good quality pad of the right size/thickness (okay/does the job), followed by good quality grease (really your best bet) Thinner grease/pad is better, since it conducts heat a lot worse than the metal itself, and you get higher temps with a thicker application... (Unless you make it so thin as to not fill the gap. And if the gap is too big for grease, between the CPU/GPU chip and its cooler, you might have to go ahead and use a pad anyway.)
I still have an old a Dell XPS 15 core i7 (fifth gen, I guess) with nVidia graphics (don't recall the model). The first time I changed the paste to the CPU I did not replace the thermal pads in the GPU and VRAM chips as I couldn't find them at any shop; without them, the heat-sink pipes did not even touch the video chips, so I decided to keep the old dried and cracky pads. Of course, then you couldn't use the computer for anything video-intensive for longer than five minutes or it would emergency shut down.
As previously mentioned, thermal pads are not for CPU/GPU. And this MB doesn't have a video card. Those 4 squares are the power transistors of the CPU's power supply. Pads are for memory chips and transistors with ceramic casing...
I have Dell Inspiron N5110.. I want to know what is the normal working temperature for this laptop please. Mine laptop is suddenly overheating, I got it serviced but still it is overheating. Which company thermal grease or pad should I use for it. Do I need to replace heatsink or something? Also I see you don't have graphic card? And your voice is so beautiful !
It would be nice for somebody to demo and compare thermal pad VS paste ,both of different W/m-K rating and thickness( measure the gap between CPU , GPU and heatsink). The effect both have on CPU of different surface material. My acer i460m laptop CPU full load using intelBurn Test : 1) stock thermal pad(5 years, ?? W/m-K ) hit 102°c (casing assemble during test) 2) left over thermal paste from cm storm 212 evo (new, ?? W/m-K ) hit 93°c (casing open during test) 3) HT WT160 thermal paste (new, 1 W/m-K ) hit 105°c (casing assemble during test) GPU usually generate more heat then CPU.. If i were to use thermal pad on it, why can't i use it on CPU?
richerite I was thinking of putting an arctic silver pad of 1.5mm yo everything. Currently I put a paste that is bad, its called Manhattan, I see that arctic silver 5 has 8.9w conductivity, arctic mx-4 has 8.5W and is what I have at the moment, arctic pad has 6W per mK (mili Kelvin I guess).
The pad I used was an ARCTIC Thermal Pad (50 x 50 x 1.0 mm) - Silicone Based Thermal Pad with 6.0W/mK. Its useless. I suggested thermal paste for the CPU because that was what was originally present on the mobo. Only the GPU had the thermal pad. You may get better results with the silver 5 pad (cpu + gpu)
Thermal pads aren't for cpus!!!! only for ram modules and VRMs!
Great video up until you put the pad on the CPU, you'll have poor temps with that setup :( Thermal pads are not for CPUs, unless they are special extra-thin graphite ones (have a look). Put some decent thermal paste on the cpu after cleaning, I'd recommend Artic MX4 or 5 as they have no curing time and good performance. With thermal paste, less is more and it will spread out when given sufficient pressure. I'm about to do this process myself and I believe the pad thickness you need for the VRMs is 1mm (the three lumps which had the thermal pad on before), which is what you're actually meant to use the thermal pad for.
Thanks for the video.
Regarding grease vs. pads, I have read that the grease is better (will give you a lower temperature) than a pad. What I've ALSO read is, having a really bad/old/degraded grease application or pad is WAY WORSE than having ANY intact thermal solution.
So from worst to best, it would be an old/degraded prior application (might be almost useless), followed by a new good quality pad of the right size/thickness (okay/does the job), followed by good quality grease (really your best bet)
Thinner grease/pad is better, since it conducts heat a lot worse than the metal itself, and you get higher temps with a thicker application...
(Unless you make it so thin as to not fill the gap. And if the gap is too big for grease, between the CPU/GPU chip and its cooler, you might have to go ahead and use a pad anyway.)
I still have an old a Dell XPS 15 core i7 (fifth gen, I guess) with nVidia graphics (don't recall the model). The first time I changed the paste to the CPU I did not replace the thermal pads in the GPU and VRAM chips as I couldn't find them at any shop; without them, the heat-sink pipes did not even touch the video chips, so I decided to keep the old dried and cracky pads. Of course, then you couldn't use the computer for anything video-intensive for longer than five minutes or it would emergency shut down.
What thickness of thermopads did you use in this laptop, 1mm or 1.5mm? The thermopad does not apply to the CPU!
As previously mentioned, thermal pads are not for CPU/GPU. And this MB doesn't have a video card. Those 4 squares are the power transistors of the CPU's power supply. Pads are for memory chips and transistors with ceramic casing...
I have Dell Inspiron N5110.. I want to know what is the normal working temperature for this laptop please. Mine laptop is suddenly overheating, I got it serviced but still it is overheating. Which company thermal grease or pad should I use for it. Do I need to replace heatsink or something? Also I see you don't have graphic card? And your voice is so beautiful !
John Oliver ic diamond if ur experience or thermal grizzly but if ur a beginner use arctic silver or mx5
What size thermopad you used?
It would be nice for somebody to demo and compare thermal pad VS paste ,both of different W/m-K rating and thickness( measure the gap between CPU , GPU and heatsink). The effect both have on CPU of different surface material.
My acer i460m laptop CPU full load using intelBurn Test :
1) stock thermal pad(5 years, ?? W/m-K ) hit 102°c (casing assemble during test)
2) left over thermal paste from cm storm 212 evo (new, ?? W/m-K ) hit 93°c (casing open during test)
3) HT WT160 thermal paste (new, 1 W/m-K ) hit 105°c (casing assemble during test)
GPU usually generate more heat then CPU.. If i were to use thermal pad on it, why can't i use it on CPU?
I replaced the silicon pad in my laptop, but it still overheats :(
thermal tape is not the processor, a graphics card only, put thermal grease and will not overheat
Should I put a thermal pad on the Asus X55VD or arctic silver MX-4/arctic silver 5 paste? For both the processor and GPU.
I'd say try Artic Silver for the CPU and thermal pad on the GPU.
richerite I was thinking of putting an arctic silver pad of 1.5mm yo everything. Currently I put a paste that is bad, its called Manhattan, I see that arctic silver 5 has 8.9w conductivity, arctic mx-4 has 8.5W and is what I have at the moment, arctic pad has 6W per mK (mili Kelvin I guess).
The pad I used was an ARCTIC Thermal Pad (50 x 50 x 1.0 mm) - Silicone Based Thermal Pad with 6.0W/mK. Its useless. I suggested thermal paste for the CPU because that was what was originally present on the mobo. Only the GPU had the thermal pad. You may get better results with the silver 5 pad (cpu + gpu)
wow i can change my CPU on dell laptop.
clearly thermal pad use only on GPU, not recommended to CPU
Clai res its not good for gpu either. only for chipsets and other hot components