Repasting X5 V6

Any expert help with repasting the Aorus X5 V6 please. The cpu is the problem for temps, the one with two heatpipes in the picture.

If I lift the heatpipes and fans and find the connector for the fan wire is on the other side of the laptop..I'll be stuck where I need to disassemble the whole laptop?

Does anyone know if Aorus has made access to the plug for the fan wire?

Do you think I could just lift the pipes and heatsink abit and repaste without lifting the whole thing off?

Scared and overheating in Canada!

 

May I ask what your cpu temps are maxing out at?

 

At 3.8ghz on 4 cores a a stress test quickly reaches mid 90's on at least one core at max/auto fans. With a -70mv undervolt on cpu and cache.

At stock 3.2ghz, temps are like mid 70's max on stress test. It's the overclock I wish to do better.

I know mid 90's is fine but I just don't like it. If I play Witcher 3 I'd like temps to be under 90c and I think with a repaste I could do [email protected]

 

Yeah ok, your stock temps are totally fine, to be honest the Aorus is not really meant for heavy overclocking. A good repaste with a good paste could do it I suppose.
Unfortunately I don't know if there is a way to avoid removing the mobo if it's set up like that. Maybe you can have it like propped up like you suggested...

Perhaps ask in the owners lounge, you're more likely to get an owner to respond.

 

Thanks, I appreciate the response.
Hopefully someone over there can figure something out

 

Solved my own problem. I got the nerve to repaste and it went fine.

The fan connector is accessible, it's so visible I can't believe I missed it.

The gpu heat pipe that that goes to the cpu fan just pops out when you remove that top cover above the GPU heatsink. So no need to remove the GPU heatsink when repasting the cpu.

I used IC diamond. There's not much in the tube.
The factory paste looked pretty good and I must admit I was expecting there to be not much of a difference.
I was wrong!
Before the repaste, I was 3.8ghz on 4 cores with a -69mv offset and getting about 91c on my hottest core on a stress test. Core 0 was often 5/6 degrees hotter than the other cores.

After repaste...I ran cpuz stress test and temps hovered in the low 70's and rose to about 76/77c. Huge improvement!

So naturally, I raised the 4 core multiplier to 3.9 and reduced my undervolt abit for more available juice..So now temps sit at about 82c on stress test which is super for me.
Very important to note!! My cores are all about the same temperature now. I used the line method for pasting and prob had just a little too much. It's a rectangular die so I guess line is better? My first repaste so I don't really know.

7820hk clocks stock is 3.5ghz 4 core..So I'm 400 MHz higher on a 6820hk and that's good enough for me.
I don't raise the single core speed over 4 GHz because I would crash with the undervolt I have. So essentially, I have a very aggressive multi core setup. If I wanted to go over 4ghz on single core ( and have good scores) without crashing I seem to need more voltage and then I'd have to reduce the multi core multiplier or I'd be back in the 90's again.
At stock.....Aorus adds a positive voltage offset so these beasts don't crash or blue screen. Overclocking to 4 core speeds near 4 GHz will burn up and throttle quickly. Gotta undervolt!

 

My 6820HK @ 4Ghz across all 4 cores with liquid ultra re-paste:



That was immediately after paste, now they don't go above 60°C on the stress test.

What are your GPU temps like @knibbler ?

Edit; the above was with fans set to Auto Maximum so they progressively get faster with temps.

 

I didn't repast the gpu. Actually I didn't have a lot of paste in the syringe. My gpu Temps are max 79 on games like the Witcher 3.

I haven't ran any timespy or graphic tests though.

I'm too scared to use liquid metal paste..even though the way the 6820 is made there doesn't seem to be a lot of risk of shorting out.

Congrats to you for using it!