It’s been about 20 years since the last time I did it. All hail the gods of thermal conductivity!
I have yet to do this, what’s the best way to clean the old paste or are are you simply applying it over top?
Does anyone else have experience with liquid metal instead of thermal paste?
I’ve got a Framework which apparently uses a liquid metal pad instead so you don’t need to re-up the paste.
Does anyone know of any other maintenance that might be needed instead?
in the 1000s of laptops i’ve worked on over the last 30 years, i’ve never once tore one apart specifically to swap thermal compound, never needed to. only gets redone if the heatsink assembly needs to come out in order to get at the fan or some other part inside.
Is there really a point to this? Similar time-frame as you. Old CPUs are pretty much trash. It works. No one would buy it though. Applying thermal-paste would do what? Make it run a bit cooler? I don’t even monitor the temperature… I’m writing from a place of ignorance. I do think things should be properly maintained; I just hadn’t thought of reapplying thermal-paste before.
Before: watching hd video in full screen VLC launched system towards 92C and fan spinning up to 7k.
After: same load, temp around 72, cooler at 5…6k rpm. stress-ng for 5 minutes couldn’t heat it up by 90.
I also sprayed some lube on the cooler, more as an experiment.
I think it was worth it but also fun.
I’ve got a 10 or 12 year old laptop running as a modest home server. It’s a great use of old machines. I haven’t yet redone the thermal paste, but the temperature seldom exceeds 50C as is and at idle is only 40C.
Im still using my 2012 laptop. Third thermal paste change now. It is old, but it does the job.
Also, fabric paste is usually shit.
Speaking of laps and thermals, I once lapped my CPU heatsink for a 2-3 degree temperature decrease.
I just did this about an hour ago for my Xbox. Stuff was original and crunchy.
This is an example of too much paste. It’ll be fine but yeah… Just a bit less.
I just saw it, lol, it’s like mydude is making a peanut butter sandwich
Yeah gotta agree. Got carried away with it a bit.
Thanks for reminding me I need to do this to both my laptops… fun.
OMG you paste heathen. That’s an atrocity being committed.