Possible Laptop Heating Solution?

[Hyp3rDeath1011]

So my laptop, after upgrading the RAM, now gets up to 60-70°C... The cooling fan works fine, as I can feel the cold air coming from the keyboard. I might get the heatsink some new thermal paste... But if that doesn't work, should I use an optical drive cooling fan caddy? I found one on Amazon...

[Huffer]

60-70 C is not a problem. 

[Petro_]

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@Hyp3rDeath1011 wrote:

So my laptop, after upgrading the RAM, now gets up to 60-70°C... The cooling fan works fine, as I can feel the cold air coming from the keyboard. I might get the heatsink some new thermal paste... But if that doesn't work, should I use an optical drive cooling fan caddy? I found one on Amazon...

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Your laptop has no issues, you have as I did.

My fan starts at 48c, the frustrating part for me was when it started while watching a movie or youtube... I removed the heatsink to find a mountain of paste under there... Removed it all, left some on the cores only and now the fan doesn't start while watching videos, reaches 46c max.

Max core temp was 65c, now it's 59c. I wouldn't bother with expensive paste if I had to buy it on a laptop.

[iomare]

@Petro_ 

If you remove heatsink you should always clean off all the old paste and replace with new thermal material. A basic concept. A tube of MX4 I believe is about 5$ or less. 

@Hyp3rDeath1011 

No need to replace thethermal material as the temps are in the norm as @Huffer has already stated.

regards,

David

[Petro_]

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@iomare wrote:

@Petro_ 

If you remove heatsink you should always clean off all the old paste and replace with new thermal material. A basic concept. A tube of MX4 I believe is about 5$ or less. 

I have a tube arctic silver 5 laying here, didn't bother... There was 95% new, unused paste surrounding the CPU/GPU already, I scraped it off and used a tiny dot of that.

[iomare]

@Petro_ 

Well, it would have been better to use the Arctic silver as it is probably better than the product already on the chip. Reusing thermal material even if it seems new is kind of going against the purpose of the thermal material as some drying and degradation will have already occured. The thermal material is supposed to eliminate the micro imperfections between heatsink and chip.

Regards,

David

[Petro_]

Mate, I've been into OC since the late 90's. AS5 will not make a difference in this poor case, I can try it next time I open the back for the ram upgrade.

Don't want to go into details but if you have a passive/active cooling CPU/GPU without fan adjustment the thermal paste thing doesn't apply under the same curcumstances as active. It's like soldering more copper rods to the heat pipes already there, no gain if no active cooling is present...

Danke schön.

[iomare · Accepted solution]

That is complicated! 🙂

This is my understanding, which differs a little from yours, and then part our ways as I have too many threads which need service manuals on my mind! :}

• The thermal paste is to fill the little imperfections present between the two metal surfaces which come into contact for a more efficient heat dissipation.
• More surface area more heat dissipation.
• Active cooling is present in nearly all notebooks. More surface area + more cooling.With passive cooling which would be present in very few notebooks, more surface area = more cooling. 

All the best,

David

[Hyp3rDeath1011]

Replaced the thermal paste, and now my laptop will reach up to 60°C maximum. Next task to do: Complete memory diagnostics with extended tests to increase its speed!