BAD thermal pasting job on GTX 680m?

This Dragon edition laptop really gets on my nerves so at the end I ran out of ideas and decide to open up the thing myself to attempt to fix the problems. Whoever did the thermal pasting on my laptop sure id a horrible job in my view as shown in the image. And just to put this out there, does anyone know what the light green things are? they feel a little sticky and covers up almost all "black boxes"(I don't know what those are either) should I keep them there?

Thanks in advance!

 

You can start reading / viewing from here onwards (there is a youtube video on post #460) http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/719029-official-msi-gt60-2od-owners-lounge-46.html

My advice to you, since you have never done this before and you do not know what are even thermal pads (you called them 'sticky green things'), no offence, better don't meddle with it and have someone with more experience in the field to have it fixed / put thermal paste for you... Best of luck!

 

Hey man, thanks for the advice, as someone pointed out to me earlier I now know they are thermal pads you learn something new everyday hehe. And at this point of time I already cleaned and repasted it myself. IT seems to be better, but only by a margin so I don't know what is going on here. If it is not the thermal paste, what would be the problem? I did RMA back to MSI and they did nothing to it but updated the graphics driver to the killer 320.18 now I can't even overclock....

 

You have to make sure:

- you do not put too much or too little thermal paste,

- be careful on the way you put the thermal paste,

- be careful how you put back the screws (screw them slowly and in the order mentioned, one by one - already specified this on the other thread);

- the thermal pads are applied properly on the memory so that it does not heat up and burn,

- make sure the sink grill is free of any dust,

- the last option is to buy some extra thermal copper coolers (those are some small sinks which stick one side) and apply it on the heatsink and copper pipes where possible; but make sure it does not touch other parts of the computer.

If that does not solve your problem, then you must be having some hardware problem...

 

Use alcohol to remove the generic thermal paste
Apply a "dot" in ghe center of the gpu and/or cpu press the heatsink on the die and turn it a little so that your thermal paste doesn't contain bubble before fixing it back.
Use only IC7 or MX-4.

DO NOT touch the thermal pads !

 

Do you know what type of thermal paste they used?

 

wow..... bad thermal job...... you really should re paste..... but be sure you know what you are doing 100%, don't want to mess up such a system, do what juliant said, should be better that way.

 

I gave up, I'm going to call MSI tomorrow and demand a new copy. This is just insane. I paid for a laptop that overheats? Seriously?If they can't fix it (been away to MSi for 11 business days and they did nothing) then I want a new one.

 

How did this work out in the end?
I basically do not like the single cooling fan idea. Even in my old gateway laptop there was a separate fan for cpu and gpu.

 

Like juliant said it's been talked about a while back, the stock thermal paste MSI use is MX-2 and maybe they just put a little too much.

Every unit we shipped are repasted with IC Diamond.

 

Single fan/dual fan is meaningless on its own. Cooling performance is determined as a whole, including total airflow, heatsink placement, lenght and contact with air etc. The single fan solution actually works, even if it can get noisy when using turbo fan.

The main situation that we have seen with these new msi is that msi is putting a bit too much paste with their notebooks. Since these components get hotter than previous gens, thats why we see higher temps when taxing the system.

Properly doing a paste job, or when you buy from a reseller and getting new paste job, you can help temps sometimes considerably.