The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Help please?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by oxide., Aug 4, 2010.

  1. oxide.

    oxide. Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    19
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Okay I have a studio XPS 1640. I just need a few questions answered so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I pulled apart the bottom of the laptop just cleaning and thought i would have a look under the heatsink because i was having some heat issues. Upon removing the heatsink and i was almost astonished when i seen how much thermal compound was there, none on the cpu and way to much on the gpu. I have never replaced thermal compound on a laptop, so if anyone could link to to a video or provide a picture of what it should look like as a finished product It would be amazing :) Also is there a paste that I should use with this particular setup? I was thinking arctic silver 5 but if anyone has any suggestions im open. Thanks
     
    oxide., Aug 4, 2010
    #1
  2. Brendanmurphy

    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

    Reputations:
    199
    Messages:
    1,007
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Defiantly AS5 or ocz freeze
     
    Brendanmurphy, Aug 4, 2010
    #2
  3. daredevil anand

    daredevil anand Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    84
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    check this link

    It will almost be same for XPS 1640.Just the design of the headsink and the processor might be different.
    In my opinion, arctic silver 5 will be the best option.
     
    daredevil anand, Aug 4, 2010
    #3