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post #41 of 71
1/22/06 at 8:48am
Do not do this without using thermal compound. The surface your components are not completely smooth. There are microscopic dips if you will that create a gap in certain areas between the two plates when they're pressed together. The whole reason behind thermal compound is to fill in these gaps to allow the heat to transfer as evenly as possible from one plate to the other so that the heat can make it's way to the heatsink and dissapate. Not using thermal compound will do way more damage than good. You will see a rise in temps. Although when you use it you should try to use as little as possible because while it does transfer heat, it's nowhere near as good as metal and can actually act as an insulator to some degree. Using a credit card, or something similar works well when spreading the compound.
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post #42 of 71
1/22/06 at 2:29pm
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good idea, i didn't realize of using a credit card to spread out the thermal compound.. i just used a glove and used my fingers.. lol.. messy work
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post #43 of 71
1/22/06 at 3:44pm
i used an old style razor blade to spread it.... didn't think a Gillette Mach 3 would work!

And if your doing this its prob worth completely removing the crap that Dell uses.
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post #44 of 71
1/22/06 at 4:22pm
lol Mach 3 might not but what about the turbo? Probably get another 400mhz out of it using that. Anyway, definately remove whatever compound is already there. Mixing compounds is a no no.
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post #45 of 71
1/22/06 at 8:35pm
Ok, well as I don't have any access to any thermal compound, I'm not even gonna bother.
Unless someone finds that some random thing like a glue stick will work, there's no point in me even taking out some foil.
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post #46 of 71
1/23/06 at 9:34am
You can buy thermal compound from eBay even, cost a few bucks, and makes a noticable temp differance.... but then again all this obsession with temps and speed.. to be honest these CPU are good to 100 degrees, mine maxes at 45 so whats the point of thermal compound.... also if you want a beefy GPU get a different laptop... The reason i did it was out of curiosity... and it was actually quite fun ripping it apart!
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post #47 of 71
1/23/06 at 11:57am
I opened up my computer last night, and I can't even get the heatsink screws off. Oh well.
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post #48 of 71
1/23/06 at 2:35pm
Try a flathead driver
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post #49 of 71
1/23/06 at 3:26pm
I tried this mod today, without the MEM-mod. I removed all the stuff from the core, until a nice copper plate revealed. I cleaned and polished the copperplate and applied AS-5.

Coretemps measured by I9K @ stockspeeds @ Full-load after an hour.
Before: 62
After: 43

I also cleaned and polished the heatsink for the CPU and applied AS-5.
@ full-load after an hour:
Before: 41
After: 32

Roomtemp. was the same.

The fan doesn't come on as much so the system is a lot more quiet.

Also took a look at the MEM on the vidcard.
Hynix HY5DS573222 FB33 wich is supposed to run @300Mhz. Why does mine crash at 290?
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post #50 of 71
1/23/06 at 4:15pm
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Originally Posted by amazin asian
I opened up my computer last night, and I can't even get the heatsink screws off. Oh well.
You need a torx screw driver - size T10.
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post #51 of 71
1/23/06 at 4:42pm
Thread Starter 
I just used a small flat head.. i couldn't find a torx driver
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post #52 of 71
1/23/06 at 8:31pm
I don't have a torx screw driver, and I'm much to weak to use a flathead. I know, use a jewlers screwdriver and a wrench. Problem is that the closest thing to a jewlers screwdriver I have, the top isn't solid and spins, which completely defeats the purpose of using a wrench.
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post #53 of 71
1/24/06 at 6:38am
Maybe if you try some fine pliers on the actual screw head?
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post #54 of 71
1/24/06 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by aquazi
Maybe if you try some fine pliers on the actual screw head?
It's kinda pointless for me to do anything really, as I don't have anything to put in there. But it was fun to take the laptop apart, which will really help if I should need to take it apart again. Also really showed me why we can't upgrade the card in this thing. Just to small a space.
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post #55 of 71
2/13/06 at 2:16am
Woah...Wait a second...Was there supposed to be some blue stuff on my heat sink...I just added AS5 to my CPU, and x300 ram...I did not see any blue stuff anywhere...On the gpu was some kind of thermal paste like on the cpu..I did not add AS5 to the core gpu because of it...Whats going on here? Max Speeds I'm getting are 380, 280 before stalling?!?!?!?!
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post #56 of 71
2/13/06 at 4:57am
Did you follow everything correctly? Did you remove and clean everything off of the heatsinks before putting AS5 on? Really, you shouldn't be doing this unless you know what you are doing.
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post #57 of 71
2/13/06 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by amazin asian
Did you follow everything correctly? Did you remove and clean everything off of the heatsinks before putting AS5 on? Really, you shouldn't be doing this unless you know what you are doing.
Yes I did. I know how to clean the heat sink and cores with 99.9% isopropyl alcohol and then apply the AS5. Sorry if i've been a bit noobish lately. It's just that I was wondering why some x300's have the blue foam pads and others, like mine, do not. I know my system is stable by runing prime 95 tourture test over night resulting with no errors. As far as graphics, my vid card does not exceed 54 C even after playing BF2 for 3+ hours
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post #58 of 71
2/14/06 at 3:56am
Prime only tests your CPU, not your graphics. ATI Tool will test your graphic card. Idk about these pads, cause I know once that someone was missing one of their pads. I'm pretty sure it's nothing to worry about if you applied AS5 correctly.
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post #59 of 71
2/14/06 at 6:31am
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Originally Posted by amazin asian
I know once that someone was missing one of their pads.
I never had the mem pads on my heatsink either... didnt really care though as the stuff dell uses wouldnt have dont much anyway.
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post #60 of 71
2/14/06 at 10:57pm
Did you guys remove the tape like stuff on the GPU and just add another copper plate with AS5 in between? Also, does anyone here with Samsung ram get mem speeds >285 before crashing?
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