Recent content by kobrrra

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    thermal pad/paste for laptop GPU & capacitor?

    the chips had not been cleaned when i took this shot. the pads didn't leave too much residue below on the chips. there was plenty of residue on the cpu though. the narrow strip of light color on the gpu probably is reflection. actually i reapplied the same heat sink to a replacement...
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    thermal pad/paste for laptop GPU & capacitor?

    thanks for the suggested links. i had a quick look at them. would they fill up the gap completely between the heat sink and the GPU/VRM surface? i think the contact point on the heat sink where it touches gpu is not flat.
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    thermal pad/paste for laptop GPU & capacitor?

    I had to change a failed motherboard for a HP Pavilion dv4 laptop. I am using the heatsink & cpu from the dead mobo. I have applied Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU. Do I need to change the “brown pad” that sits on the GPU? Another “green” one looks like a pad/paste and sits on two blocks...
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    thermal grease on laptop GPU?

    Do I need to apply thermal grease/compound on the integrated GPU on a laptop motherboard, before putting heatsink? There’s a small rubber pad square that’s glued to the heat sink. This sits on top of the GPU. Do I need to add thermal material between the GPU and this pad? Does the pad need to...
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    arctic silver 5 on laptop cpu?

    Can I use Arctic Silver 5 on a laptop CPU. I have only used it before for desktop CPUs? I need to put thermal grease on an AMD Turion 64 X2 RM-72 CPU. The laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 [/URL][/IMG]