Before reading this, read the part 1 here
In the last part of this three-part series, I told you all how you can clean the fan in an old laptop. This time I will tell you how you can apply thermal paste on your CPU and GPU but before that, I want to tell you all that I want to add one more chapter to this 3-part series which will make it a 4-part series and that thing is under volting.
So let’s get out our thermal paste and apply it!
As shown in the above video, you have to open the back cover then remove the cooling system.
As shown in the above video, take some Isopropyl Alcohol and apply it to a cotton bud, take the bud and wipe off the old and brittle thermal paste. If you can’t get Isopropyl Alcohol and cotton buds then you can carefully use tissue paper. After wiping off the old thermal paste, apply one dot of thermal paste and if you CPU/GPU is bigger then use a small line of thermal paste, you should not drown the chip in thermal paste and you should also not apply a microscopic amount of thermal paste. Try not to get the thermal paste on anything except the chip because if the thermal paste is conductive, you can cause a short circuit. The thermal paste that I recommend is ARCTIC MX-4 but I couldn’t get that thermal paste so I am using a cheap one which does the job fine.
You can buy the Arctic MX-4 thermal paste above (not sponsored) Arctic MX-4 is a very high performing thermal pastes but it is on the expensive side of thermal pastes.
After cleaning and applying thermal paste on the CPU/GPU you have you clean the heatsink with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton bud as shown in the above video. Of course, if you don’t have those then you can use tissue paper. Now you can screw in the heatsink to the processors and don’t open it again to see how evenly it spread because you may trap air bubbles in the paste which will reduce the effitiveness of the paste. After closing it, you can turn your laptop and see the performance difference!
Do this at your own risk
Bye!
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