Thermal paste

I use organic thermal paste.

 

Idle, yeah. Mine is using a top-mounted closed loop water cooler from Corsair... H105i I think?

 

Put copper shims and removed the silicon thermal pads from my laptop today. Temps are much better.


Before with just new thermal paste.







With Copper shims




lowest temp without fan on

 

Anyone know what a northbridge is?

 

The Northbridge, depending on the board, usually has the GPU and the memory controller, some other stuff that's usual all in the CPU these days.

 

I followed another how-to for the copper shims and the post said placing a shim on the northbridge wouldn't help much. Think it will make a difference?

 

I've never used copper shims. Did it come with a heatsink? In the pic you posted I see old thermal paste on the CPU, but not the northbridge.

 

@digitaLbraVo

I used a pic from the thread I found on the copper shim mod. I closed mine up before I thought about taking pics of it. I ordered the shims from Amazon, the shims just replaced the silicon thermal pads. My temps are better by about 20 degrees. The cores, according to fanspeed still get into the 70-80c, hover around 60 at idle.

Question:
I think the CPU is an intel dual core T9600, so if the cores are at lets say 65c wouldn't the cpu be at the same temp as well?

 

Nah, the sensors are in different places so you get different temps. It's usually the CPU most people consider individual core temp is typically under the heat spreader.

 

Do you think it is possible that the core temps being read are from the northbridge? The thread I followed said the northbridge isn't worth doing, I might just do it on the northbridge to satisfy a curiosity.

 

I get this on my Dell:

radeon-pci-0300
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +56.0°C (crit = +120.0°C, hyst = +90.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +34.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 1: +29.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 2: +33.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 8: +32.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 9: +33.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 10: +30.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +33.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 1: +37.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 2: +33.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 8: +39.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 9: +36.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)
Core 10: +39.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +96.0°C)

 

X gonna give it to ya

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Thermal-Paste-Application-Techniques-170/