arctic silver 5 on laptop cpu?

[kobrrra]

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

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[Hitman928]

It might be possible. I've tried to put it on laptop chips before, but they used a pretty thick tap/pad and so without it, there was a gap in between the cpu and heatsink and the chip would overheat (nice thermal design, right?).

Ed: Just saw the pic, that should be fine, just don't put too much. Is there any reason why you want to replace the grease that's already there? Are you having overheating problems?

 

[bononos]

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

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You can but there are better alternatives out there. There won't be a large difference though so it doesn't hurt to use it if thats what you already have.

 

[SammichPG]

It might be possible. I've tried to put it on laptop chips before, but they used a pretty thick tap/pad and so without it, there was a gap in between the cpu and heatsink and the chip would overheat (nice thermal design, right?).

Ed: Just saw the pic, that should be fine, just don't put too much. Is there any reason why you want to replace the grease that's already there? Are you having overheating problems?

You need a copper shim to fill the gap left by a thick thermal pad, you can find them easily on ebay or cut one yourself.

I was thinking about some liquid metal ultra for my laptop, but that stuff is hard to find and 50% more expensive than noctua nt-h1.

 

[Revolution 11]

If what you have is Arctic Silver 5, go ahead and use it. But do not buy any more, it is more expensive and lower performing than newer TIMs (pastes, pads, etc) out there.

 

[thescreensavers]

Apply and tighten it down. Then Lift to see if it did a good job. Also since this is a Rectangular core you cant do the rice grain method. A Small line in the center that starts about 1/4 the way in and stops a 1/4 of the way off so a 2/4 length line.

Again Apply it and tighten it down then lift to see how it went. If you used too much (a lot oozed out) try again with less.

I would also boot it up and check temps with prime 95 before you bolt it all back together.

 

[Deders]

MX4 would be a much better choice than AS5, My cpu temps have been 10c lower since I made the change, and it's usually really cheap.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

There are better tims but it will work.