This is great stuff I have a old laptop I need to do this, the GPU and CPU are both under the same heat sink... Can I put a bigger heat sink or make one??
@320466 Hi there, and welcome to the channel. Typically, a laptop hestsink the small interior of it and not usually replaceable with a larger one. But some laptops are easy to open and take the heatsink off, clean, and re apply new thermal paste. Google or YT search your laptop, make a model, and see if there's a tear down video. If it looks easy, perhaps you can tackle it yourself!. Let me know how you make out. Tha ks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
Depending on the gpu I'd spread the thermal paste around myself. (Usually a plastic bag & my finger here.) Rather then do the mounting pressure thing as a gpu usually has more contact area then a processor die. I've had gpus drop plenty in temperatures tearing down & cleaning the heatsinks as well rather then just putting on new thermalpaste on due too excess dust being stuck & blocking off the airflow of the fan or fans. Lil brother is currently using a gainward gtx 1070 phoenix with a dead hdmi port. Thats otherwise working perfectly fine that i recently got from the junkyard. Cost me my displayport too hdmi adapter for him too use it. But was a solid upgrade that cost me otherwise nothing with a coworker finding it in the junkyard electronics container & later bringing me it.
Hey there! Sometimes I use a spatula sometimes not. The plastic bag idea sounds good. That 1070 you got sounds like a good find! I've been wanting to test one but yours was free. :)
Ah, the endless debate on how to apply thermal paste. I'm still stuck on the giant pea sized for square CPUs or the 1 inch line for rectangular CPUs.Some people prefer spreading a thin layer with a teeny weeny little spatula. Removing and reattaching the block [i]could[/i] add bubbles. So many variables. I wonder if a video could be made with all the different ways to apply thermal paste, and removing/reattaching the block without cleaning it, and thermals after running something heat intensive like R23 for an hour. That would be an interesting experiment. 😉
Hey there. Yeah I could have used a spatula. Air bubbles are a thing. I basically took it apart after the application to show the coverage. Good idea for a video ty.
Why you opened the GPU after applied New Thermal Paste. Which causes to form bubbles between the thermal paste. So Heat transfer becomes slow. and Starts Overheating again. I had 9200m GS and do the same (applied new paste and opened the cooling heatsink then attached the heatsink then I turned on the temp rising to 60 degs at idling and playing san Andreas the temp goes 80 and in GTA IV it goes to 101deg celsius
Hey there. I wanted to show how it wasn't very evenly spread out the way I did it. Using a spreader would have been better. Thanks for the tip about the heat and air bubbles I appreciate it :)
Hello Jason, that did the trick!👍👍
Thanks, Laurence!!
This is great stuff I have a old laptop I need to do this, the GPU and CPU are both under the same heat sink... Can I put a bigger heat sink or make one??
@320466 Hi there, and welcome to the channel. Typically, a laptop hestsink the small interior of it and not usually replaceable with a larger one. But some laptops are easy to open and take the heatsink off, clean, and re apply new thermal paste. Google or YT search your laptop, make a model, and see if there's a tear down video. If it looks easy, perhaps you can tackle it yourself!. Let me know how you make out. Tha ks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
Depending on the gpu I'd spread the thermal paste around myself.
(Usually a plastic bag & my finger here.)
Rather then do the mounting pressure thing as a gpu usually has more contact area then a processor die.
I've had gpus drop plenty in temperatures tearing down & cleaning the heatsinks as well rather then just putting on new thermalpaste on due too excess dust being stuck & blocking off the airflow of the fan or fans.
Lil brother is currently using a gainward gtx 1070 phoenix with a dead hdmi port.
Thats otherwise working perfectly fine that i recently got from the junkyard.
Cost me my displayport too hdmi adapter for him too use it.
But was a solid upgrade that cost me otherwise nothing with a coworker finding it in the junkyard electronics container & later bringing me it.
Hey there! Sometimes I use a spatula sometimes not. The plastic bag idea sounds good. That 1070 you got sounds like a good find! I've been wanting to test one but yours was free. :)
Ah, the endless debate on how to apply thermal paste. I'm still stuck on the giant pea sized for square CPUs or the 1 inch line for rectangular CPUs.Some people prefer spreading a thin layer with a teeny weeny little spatula. Removing and reattaching the block [i]could[/i] add bubbles. So many variables. I wonder if a video could be made with all the different ways to apply thermal paste, and removing/reattaching the block without cleaning it, and thermals after running something heat intensive like R23 for an hour. That would be an interesting experiment. 😉
Hey there. Yeah I could have used a spatula. Air bubbles are a thing. I basically took it apart after the application to show the coverage. Good idea for a video ty.
Why you opened the GPU after applied New Thermal Paste. Which causes to form bubbles between the thermal paste. So Heat transfer becomes slow. and Starts Overheating again. I had 9200m GS and do the same (applied new paste and opened the cooling heatsink then attached the heatsink then I turned on the temp rising to 60 degs at idling and playing san Andreas the temp goes 80 and in GTA IV it goes to 101deg celsius
Hey there. I wanted to show how it wasn't very evenly spread out the way I did it. Using a spreader would have been better. Thanks for the tip about the heat and air bubbles I appreciate it :)
@@RememberThisTech try and you may get above 10 deg celsius gain for that GPU and save it for your collection
@@mwolf7780 Will do tyvm :)