laptop heatsink

zatblast · Mar 23, 2008

hi... just wondering if one of you thats taken your laptop apart to apply different thermal paste to the heat sink ever noticed some sort of thin metalic strip... what i mean is the nvidia 6150go chip had a thermal pad attached to it, the turion 64 x2 had a thermal pad that went around the edges and then a piece of metal going accross it by metal i mean something like tin foil, but 1/3 or less the thickness...

ok so if you have seen that wth is it for? kinda defeats the purpose of a hs does it not?

and anyways i didnt get any temp readings before hand but after applying by applying i mean smearing mx-2 all around anything that needed heat removed in the area, its still a little hot but wow what a drop its like it warm-hot now rather than just hot-hot...

dv9428nr (hp pavillion)

ok thanks for reading to my half rant question...

Kreij · Mar 23, 2008

Not sure, maybe it is used to evenly distribute the heat or something.

I've removed the pads on laptops and used regular goop.
Made a difference. The laptop no longer shut itself off from overheating.

Cleaning the dust off the HS regularly helps quite a bit too.

rangerone766 · Mar 23, 2008

both my toshiba a15 with a 2.4 mobile pentium 4,and my dell 8600 2.0 pentium m, had the stupid foil. removed it on both.

on the toshiba i would get overtemp shut off in games from time to time. the dell never had temp problems.

after removing the the foil on the toshiba i could overclock it and game 24/7 at 2.8. not a fantastic overclock by any means, but on a laptop anything above default is welcome.

i'll have to look again, but at 1 time i had the world record pcmark2004 for a pentium m in a laptop, with my dell 8600 at 2.4ghz. my score was 4711 i think.

i cant give you exact temp differences, but anything is better than stock goop.

zatblast · Mar 24, 2008

okies tha makes me feel better somehow, that the metal thing is a standard... albietly a crappy standard... aka atleast they didnt forget to remove it and that was causing some of the heat... lol

and thanks for the input

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Processor	E8400@3.0
Motherboard	Asus P5N-D
Cooling	mx-2//Artic freezer 7 pro
Memory	2gb Corsair XMS2 800mhz
Video Card(s)	MSI 8800gt
Storage	Seagate 320 7200.10
Display(s)	Syncmaster 220WM
Case	Antec P182
Audio Device(s)	Motherboard
Power Supply	Corsair HX620
Software	XP pro (32bit)

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