I'm no noob to building computers so I offered to help my friend figure out why his 6800 go in his alienware laptop was always overheating. I knew that OEMs use those big thick thermal pads that were bad so I brought over my AS5 and we set to work removing those things they had about 5-6 on each little black thing on the video card. Then about 4-5 more on some black things under the card that touched a metal plate behind the keyboard. I think they might of used actual paste on the real GPU. It even looked like they left the wrapper around the thermal pads on some of them because I peeled off a paper like thing and it was still sticky underneath.. There were so many I was confused as to what they were doing. Anyway So I put a small dab of paste in each spot they had a pad and we put it back together. Temps are not that better.. still crashed 30 mins into game play. The card in question looks like this "http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njg0" I might take a picture of how their thing works I guess.
There is the traditional heatsink and the fan blowing out toward the side of the case. Behind the card is an alumnium plate that has a grove for the black "boxes" on the card that touch some other heat transfer plate on the back of the laptop I guess for heat dissipation on the top and bottom of the card.
Was I right to put paste each little black "box" where they had thermal pads?
There is the traditional heatsink and the fan blowing out toward the side of the case. Behind the card is an alumnium plate that has a grove for the black "boxes" on the card that touch some other heat transfer plate on the back of the laptop I guess for heat dissipation on the top and bottom of the card.
Was I right to put paste each little black "box" where they had thermal pads?
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