Thermal Paste for Vortex II

[Mulligan]

Hi,

I have a Vortex II from 2011 which is still going strong. Best laptop I've ever owned so thanks PCSpecialist!

The temperatures are starting to run a little high so I'm planning on re-doing the thermal paste, just looking for some beginners advice.

- Should I re-do paste on both CPU (i7-2720QM) and GPU (2GB AMD® Radeon® HD 6990M)?

- Can anyone recommend a paste? Arctic cooling and arctic silver seem to be the popular ones, is there a difference?

- Could anyone point me to a reliable step-by-step guide for doing this on my model? (first time doing this, so don't want to fry the machine)

Thanks to anyone who can help me out with this.

Mulligan

 

[tom_gr7]

hey,

I'd suggest Nocuta's thermal paste, its very good stuff! And its non conductive!

I'd also suggest doing both cpu and gpu. But do not use conductive thermal paste IE Artic MX 5 on your gpu. - Either Artic MX4 or Noctua's thermal paste as both are highly rated and non conductive.

As for methods, a tiny pea sized amount in the center of the chip, watch a few youtube videos/guide etc etc. But Call pcs and ask them to talk you through removing the heatsinks on your model laptop.