Thursday, July 2, 2015

Alienware 17 Thermal Repaste

So HWINFO has been recording CPU temps of 92 - 96 degrees C max (average 78C) while playing GW2 now it is summer which I thought was bad (it also flagged thermal throttling). I was noticing that every now and again, the temperature graph would spike about 10 degrees then settle down again.

I finally decided to do a repaste as I had bought some arctic silver 5 some months ago. When I opened it up - this is what I found. I am guessing that is a bad factory paste job? It looks like a couple of...

Alienware 17 Thermal Repaste

Alienware 17 Thermal Repaste

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