So I repasted.

Finally took the plunge since my idle temps on my CPU were in the high 50's, low 60's with it being in the mid-high 70's under load. My GPU was similar which isn't too bad but I was going in there anyway so I repasted it. After hearing people have a lot of problems I expected hell but it wasn't too bad, I do have some complaints though.

1. Keyboard was a pain in the butt. The board and the keys on mine got separated because of the tape so I had to McGuyver it together. It works fine at least but whoever designed that needs to be kicked in sensitive parts.

2. The speaker cable looks like it's barely attached to the board, hell a lot of the cables look like they could break off at the slightest touch. <_< Very unsettling when you're working on it but I didn't break it at least.

3. The whole thing in general is not very user friendly, manageable but really not pleasant.

I repasted both the CPU and GPU, the warranty sticker was like the cheapest paper ever, it pretty much disintegrated the moment I touched it. Results are pretty good, my CPU idles at around high 30's, low-mid 40's now and high 40's, low 50's under load. I haven't tested the GPU yet but I'm idling at about 45-52 right now. Not too bad.

I'm having some problems after reassembly though, the USB port next to my Ethernet doesn't seem to work. I'm positive I broke nothing so I have no idea why that is and I'm having problems with the palmrest. Mine doesn't want to click into place on the left and right next to the buttons. I have to push the power button really in there to get it to press for some reason. I'm going to go back and disassemble for the second time, did anybody have similar problems with the palmrest not going into place and what'd you do to fix it? Helps to know what I'm looking for. Unfortunately no pics since I was lazy and I just wanted to get my laptop back together.

 

high 30's??? seems......unbelievable, even when my computer just starts from a night long cooldown, its not that cold

 

he beats others 55c temp....XD my lowest temp was 52c (cold days and no repasting and just turned on XD).

 

Wow what did you use ? in a room with a temp of 8c my temps were 44c idling and load 64 the lowest. At normal temp 21c im idling at 48-50c load is about 70c

 

what kind or room do you have to have a temp of 8 degree. Even when i just turned on ly laptop im at 40...30's seem almost impossible

 

Hey guys he is writting that have 30 degs on CPU not GPU - on GPU on IDDLE have about 42- 55 it is similary like i have on iddle without repasting (on furmark i kave about 75-80 witk cooled pad)

 

Okay I fixed my palmrest and USB problem, both were related to each other funny enough. I forgot to plug in the cable which in turn caused the mobo not to let the palmrest align. Anyway I used some IC Diamond since that seems to be the popular choice. My ambient temps when I tested this was 20C which is usually what my room is so I thought it was appropriate:



My CPU temp hovers around high 30's-mid 40's on idle and high 40's-mid/high 50's under a lot of load. I'll bust out the Furmark later for the GPU.

 

Mine too

 

Had to reopen again because my headphones/USB port on the bottom left wasn't working. The damn cord wasn't plugged in all the way, NOW it's perfect. The Keyboard is a little elevated, which I could probably fix with some tape but screw that. Chillin' in my living room which is essentially a heater, no noticeable changes in temp. Pretty happy that my CPU is so much cooler, I'm always in Vegas rendering something so when I reached the 80's I was like "Yeah I'm opening this up". Hopefully I never have to RMA this sucker.

 

lol nice. How's the GPU temp at load (the question we're all waiting to hear!)

 

A room with bad heating and -32c outside


I should get my IC diamond to soon so can to a repaste Hope to get the same results.

 

Stop by and say "Hi" sometime. Viva Las Vegas!

 

Finally, my tube of ICD7 came at my doorsteps! (repaste time! repaste time!) I'm now almost ready to do my repaste. I'll just be buying an anti-static wrist strap, anti-static mat, air-can, articlean and micro-fiber before I do my repaste.

Hello ValkyrieFire! I'll be reviewing your repaste guide for the last time before I dive in ^_^

I'm excited to see the temp drops! I'm also nervous that I'll be ripping this beast apart! I hope not to break my speaker cables. And not to break anything too!

 

Or, have a metal chair/desk, and keep a bare foot on it at all times. Though I do recommend articlean, leaves your computer smelling lemon-y fresh for awhile

 

Sorry for the wait, I ran the FurryDonut test (They changed it =() for 20 minutes and here are my results:



For some reason my PrintScreen decided to be stupid and didn't capture it right. Anyway my settings were at 1600x900 with PostFX, Burn In/Extreme Burn In and Dynamic Background at Fullscreen. I was gonna run it for 45 minutes but like at my last run it pretty much stayed the same throughout after 5 minutes which was a 76-77C consistently for the whole 20+ minutes with max 78C-79C.

Just for comparison's sake, I ran the test on stock paste awhile back and my temps were at 88-89C on the same settings so a 10C improvement over last time. All in all, successful repaste was successful? lol. My ambient temps for this particular run was 23C, the one at stock paste was at 15C just about.

 

Your actual temps are probably slightly higher, I get 79C on Furmark/GPU temp, but 83-85C on MemIO. Check HWinfo to be sure, ever since 10.11 comparing temps has been even harder. still those are awesome temps. Good job, in glad you got everything working again. Congrats.

 

Alright I ran it again for 20 minutes just be sure and I had HWi32 in the background, temps were pretty much exactly the same. This is what I got:



Pretty consistent. So...successful? lol. Also thanks to your guide Valkerie, it helped in some places.

 

Wow, impressive consistency across all the temp sensors. This makes me wonder if I should get new thermal pads. My GPU and mem temps are up to 6C apart. Yours are identical. I know it's not worth the effort or risk, but it makes me wonder.

 

I kept my old pads, and my memio is only +1C

 

The MemIO sensor is still on the GPU - but around the border. If you can find the silicon image of the R770 core, you can see that it's far enough away that if your paste isn't RIGHT to the edge in a corner, it'll have higher temps.

Kinda nice of ATI to have a sensor in a hard-to-paste spot. You can be almost guaranteed that if your MemIO is significantly higher (10+) than your Core, then you need to repaste. If you're only 5-6 degrees off, its actually just be the excess paste seeping over the edge of the GPU and retaining heat (no direct contact between the extra blob drooling down the side and the heatsink).

So, 5-6 degrees difference is an overly enthusiastic paste job. 10-15 degrees difference is not enough paste. Perfect symmetry between all of them is great paste application ... or none at all.

 

That's funny because I kind of half-assed the job on both, lol. Once I removed my ICD from it's boiling container of water which I left in there for like 30 minutes by accident <_<, I just dabbed a random glob on both the CPU and GPU then put the heatsinks back on. I didn't feel like doing that 5mm pea crap so I just took a guess on how much it needed by the size.

 

So, we have to look at the difference between the MemIO and the DispIO ?

My MemIO is like 20° higher then my DispIO

So... what can we conclude from this? *blush*

Q

 

Good thing you used ICD then, that's one of the reasons it's so darn expensive ... non conductive, and really, REALLY hard to mess up.

Sort of. Not really. I mean, if your temps are below 100, doesn't really matter. You could probably go cooler, but if you don't want to, you're not hurting anything by leaving it.

 

That's too high. Typical differences between the MemIO and DispIO are more or less 10C.

 

So if I repaste, It should lower my temps?

Q

 

that is the working theory, yes.