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    Replace thermal on a XPS M1330

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by decon, Feb 21, 2011.

  1. decon

    decon Notebook Guru

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    Hey whats up. I have a rather old (2-3 years old) XPS M1330 that I've been monitoring the temperatures on over the last couple of days. My temps are as follows:
    GPU: 80-90c
    CPU: 80-90c

    IMO, theses temps are quite high, so I've been doing a little searching around the boards and found this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...ell-xps-m1530-possibly-m1330-ten-steps-4.html

    Great, has a guide and everything. However, I don't get the GPU part. It is possible to improve the temps on the GPU? From what I understand by reading the posts, it isn't possible to replace the thermal paste on the GPU?

    Hopefully someone out there still knows a little about the awesome M1330 :)
     
    decon, Feb 21, 2011
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  2. kozzney

    kozzney Notebook Evangelist

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    You need to definitely do something about those temps. That's not good at all. Is there anything running in the background that may be eating up your processor time or something?

    Follow this thread, and do the copper mod-it helps a lot.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...m1330-nvidia-geforce-8400m-gs-copper-mod.html

    My temps are usually around

    CPU: 35-45C
    GPU: 55-65C

    I do have the T9300 CPU though, which runs a lot cooler than a T7xxx or T5xxx series CPU, but still, your temps are way too high for either of those anyways. And there is no problem with replacing the thermal paste on the GPU; just clean off the old stuff first, get your new paste and layer it THINLY on there (like .5mm thick). There's plenty of good guides on applying thermal paste out there.
     
    kozzney, Feb 21, 2011
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  3. Brendanmurphy

    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    I just did the coopermod on mine and my temps for gpu have dropped 15c and with new thermal paste my cpu is at 42c. Before all this my temps for gpu would reach 102c and cpu 90c
     
    Brendanmurphy, Feb 22, 2011
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    LordRasta Notebook Consultant

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    tick... tick... tick... :)
     
    LordRasta, Feb 23, 2011
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  5. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    Have you tried blasting your fan with compressed air? That always seemed to help me a bit when my temps were rather high on my old 1530. : )
     
    Cin', Feb 23, 2011
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  6. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    The heat isn't even the issue with the faulty G84M/G86M Nvidia chips. The bump material supplied from TSMC to Nvidia was defective, so the constant fluctuation in temperatures will cause it to expand and contract, eventually causing the solder joints to fail, and thus disconnecting the GPU from the motherboard.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 23, 2011
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  7. kozzney

    kozzney Notebook Evangelist

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    But if you still bring the temps down with the copper mod, then the solder expansion won't be as large anymore right? So maybe at least delaying the inevitable for a little longer.
     
    kozzney, Feb 23, 2011
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  8. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Even with extreme cooling, the GPU will reach about ~60 C which is the temperature that starts the solder joints to fail. My 8400M GS in my Vostro is an rare exception, the GPU and CPU are separate heat pipes, and the GPU is cooled first, so max load is like 56C for my 8400M GS (after repaste).

    And as stated before, I don't trust copper shims, if improperly applied they can destroy your GPU die.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 23, 2011
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