I've took the liberty to re-paste my new laptop with Artic Silver 5 High den on CPU & GPU.
Now, the laptop is about 3 Weeks Old. the stock temps for both on Idle was 41-50c CPU all cores, and 40c GPU, this was probably not necessary since those temps are totally fine. but I am a freak in terms of stocks thermals, they usually bug me so I had to use a brand and optimize the laptop in every possible way. (soon I will be upgrading the cpu with a 3840QM 2.8Ghz - 3.8Ghz to stay on the line with the haswell performances)
just letting know for those who are new into the whole repasting and what not, it will break you're warranty if you upgrade/open the CPU/GPU. I've don't so because the asus warranty isn't useful at all. besides getting them to replace refurbished parts on your laptop, which I dislike a lot I prefer to spend and buy new parts off ebay or a site)
anyway, when I reached the CPU/GPU part. I've started to remove the heatsink, and I noticed the paste they used was literally like gum you find under ur shoes, you can't even remove it regardless with what kind of cleaner you use, so if you are in this process, be careful because the heatsink might not be well attached with the copper, put it on a flat surface and clean it from there with a credit card or butter knife, anything that isn't sharp but sharp enough to remove idealistic sticky surfaces without leaving or scratching anything.
anyway after the cleaning process it took me about 10 minute to clean it to a point where copper becomes shiny as a mirror.
I started to use the artic silver on the cpu, I did a I method , haven't spread it I just pressed the heatsink on top and screwed the screws.
the GPU was sticky when I tried to remove the heatsink from it. the pads they used, they seem really off from where they've put them. I found more around on the card surface instead on the VRAM?? sadly I couldn't find the right pads for it so I just took the pads that melted around the VRAM and spread them with my finger on the vram.
for the GPU process of putting the Artic silver, I've done an X method. (it usually gives a perfect O form without leaking on the sides)
and voila. then of course once done I remounted everything
After 48 Hours of idle / gaming here are my results !
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GPU: 670MX 3GB
Before:
GPU Idle: 37-45c
Max GPU temp: 72c (Using furmark software)
After:
GPU Idle: 34-37c
Max GPU temp: 67c (Using furmark software)
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CPU: 3630QM
Before:
CPU Idle temp : 41-50 All cores
CPU Max temp: 84-87 Max on all cores (Using 95 Prime software)
After:
CPU Idle temp : 29-33 All cores (HUGE drop here of temps)
CPU Max temp: 72-82 Max on all cores (Using 95 Prime software)
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in conclusion, was it worth it? well for myself, yes. if you've done repasting on desktops, a laptop should be fun and much easy imo. the only annoying part is when you FIRST dissemble the laptop, because everything is so sniff and sticky so you get that feeling as if you going to break something lmao) but I can definitely agree that each laptop WILL give different temps regardless of what you use to re-paste. it seems like the fans are more likely to be the ideal upgrading here. my cousin did the same process as I did.
he used the same thermal and got much much less lower heat idles and max tho. I've repasted about 3-4 times to make sure. so if you're lucky you might have the good stuff
😛GPU did kind of drop few temps, but the cpu really got a nice improvement.
I also noticed, after the Repasting the fans turns off more often now, and they don't turn on unless I play a video, or use a heavy metro app
I wanted to put IC diamond, but they were out of stock from my retailer. If anyone tried IC diamond could you perhaps suggest if it's any better?