Just did a repaste on AW17r2

Hi everyone,
I have just did a repaste (took me a complete 3.5 hours of exhaustive work!) and I wanted to report my results.

What I did: Rice grain method on CPU and line method on the GPU w/Zalman ZM-STG 2 (that was the best paste I could find)

The test: I ran Heaven (maxed) and XTU stress test simultaneously and I monitored clocks and temps via XTU and HWMonitor

The results:

• The first 8 minutes was great, CPU hold its clocks (3.4 GHz) and the max temp for CPU was 87° C and 72 °C for GPU. (87 sounds a lot but it was a spike and the avg temp was 76 °C)
• 8-10 minutes I started to get CPU throttling to 2.6 GHz but XTU didn't report any kind of throttling. I think this was solely because I was using the 180W adapter. The clocks would jump between 2.6 GHz - 3.4 GHz by 5 second steps. The battery was being used quite much I guess since both CPU and GPU usage was 95-100% all the time.
• 10-20 minutes I stopped the stress test to investigate the throttling and throttling stopped. Only heaven was running now and the GPU temps dropped to 65 °C and CPU temps dropped to 72 °C. Heaven itself runs great without any throttling issues or whatsoever.

Conclusion:
I couldn't run multiple tests at a time because my CPU temps would go crazy instantly to 95-96 °C and stay there, now I can run these tests but after a while the CPU would throttle to 2.6 GHz and I presume the reason for that is the weak PSU I use; so temperature changed quite significantly!

The repasting process took lots of time. Maybe that is because it was my first time tearing down a laptop (I don't want to do it again ). I also damaged a clip physically and now only one side of the clip holds it; it is not a big deal I guess but wish I hadn't done that.

 

yep the cpu thro quite hard this month i will order the 240 psw and try to fix the dancing fps on games (even in games like lol and rocket league)

 

only 4.1W/mK ... is low, but the most important thing is that probably that paste needed of cure time. (just let your notebook without using it)

 

I don't get throttling during games anymore (clocks stay at 3.4 GHz) although I struggled with the 800 MHz throttling issue for a while.

I know it is not top quality but I heard that it gets the temps to a reasonable level so I got it. I would get the IC Diamond or some arctic silver but I had to import it from elsewhere and I just couldn't wait since I am kinda on a tight schedule.

 

ok artic silver is almost the same thermal paste performance as you have no now. Ic diamond is very good, but is sratch the procesor, i dont like how it looks after revome the paste. So, gelid extreme or TG kryonautic is the best "safe" option. If i was you, i would like to buy TG conductonaut. I am using it right now. the best thermal paste at the moment

 

I will make sure to keep that in mind for the next repasting process! Thanks.