Quiet and Cool. Thermal paste replaced! 38@idle 73@load

that could indicate a bigger problem than you think. windows uses a message queue to deliver system messages to programs. if messages aren't delivered it means the system is spoiled because of this. in your mentioned case the message sent to the program would be WM_PAINT to signal the application to repaint the window. messages can be of various types, like also network notficications (at least the better network programs or server apps which i.e. use asynchronous network transfer. one program i know of which uses asynch network io and windows message system is winscp, open source).

so this could lead to anything, from missing window repaints to truncated network downloads and crashing programs.

 

@ernstloeffel: Thank you for your advise.
I will take care about this.

 

Has anyone ever asked Dell if they would send a technician to apply a new thermal paste if you paid for all that? I'm afraid of loosing my warranty, thermal paste doesn't look like a user replaceable component to me.
With BIOS A13, my fan is off or very slow under light load. But it's kicking in sometimes when I'm using for example a virtual machine. It seems that I could cool my laptop down pretty much by using another thermal paste, as my CPU gets very hot although it's a P8600. Maybe that could even make it silent even under some heavier load, yay!

 

i'd say replacing thermal paste is easy and as long as you don't do physical damage to the system yourself dell should be thankful and say "thanks for doing what we should have done in first place" ;-). but seriously, i don't think a technician would do that as it's a mod and no originally dell part.

 

I prefer to call it "replacing a faulty Dell part with a working one". Because that's what it is if the difference in temperature is so high.

 

What about the reports that once applied, Liquid Pro, damages for ever the CPU and heatsink surfaces?

Take a look at http://www.overclock.net/air-cooling/139089-how-apply-coollabs-liquid-pro.html

 

That's only true for aluminum, since gallium reacts violently to it. It won't react to the CPU or heatsink if it is made out of copper.

 

I want to undervolt my T9600 but I'm running Vista X64 which is making it difficult. RMClock won't work and neither does CPUGenie. Has anyone undervolted in X64? If so, how?

Thanks

 

You need to use 2 thermal pastes for the processor (Coollabatory Liquid Pro and Arctic Silver 5?

Sorry I don't know much about this kind of stuff. I thought all you need is 1 type of paste that you can apply on top of the processor and GPU?

 

He used one thermal paste for the CPU and GPU - Coollaboratory Liquid Pro. He used one thermal paste for the Northbridge - AS5 (because the heatsink for that is aluminum and as I explained in my previous post gallium doesn't get along with aluminum).