I bought a Razer Blade 14" (2015) in January 2016. I wanted to re-apply thermal paste to this laptop, for three reasons:
So, here it goes.
- Typically, laptop manufacturers have sub-optimal thermal paste application in both material (low quality paste) and method (too much paste).
- LVNeptune's experiences made me want to give it a try (thread link)
- I have an OCD compulsion to play with my computer gear to "maximize" it
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I bought Tuniq TX-4, because people reported it to be pretty decent in HDT configurations (heatpipe direct), like what the Razer Blade 14 uses. It is also non-electrically conductive thermal paste; which is very good since there's a decent chance of applying too much in this type of HDT setup.
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This is the stock heatsink & heatpipes, after removing from the CPU & GPU. I used a black marker to outline the borders of where the CPU & GPU would touch the heatpipes, to help me when I was applying new paste.
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I cleaned the heatsink / heatpipe assembly, CPU, and GPU of thermal paste using 90% isopropyl alcohol.
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I filled the "gaps" between the heatpipes / heatsink assembly with Tuniq TX-4 thermal paste, and spread it out using a plastic card. This gets thermal paste into the "gaps" between the heatpipes.
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Applied thermal paste directly to the heatpipes, in the "line" method commonly recommended by thermal paste manufacturers. This is where the black marker outlines help, to identify where the borders of the CPU / GPU are.
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Overall, I got the operating temperature to drop by 6C from stock configuration, between thermal paste and undervolting.
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, after running CPU Stress Test for 15 minutes:
- Default thermal paste: 89C
- Re-apply thermal paste: 85C
- Re-apply thermal paste + -70mV undervolt: 83C
However, if you have an OCD desire to play with your computer gear, just because you find it fun, then it might be a fun little project to dig into one day.Vistar Shook, dos101 and Eason like this. -
Are those peak or average temps? 89C peak with turbo is quite good.
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Uhm, I've been getting peaks of 99-100 C on my 2015 Blade 14, with core set on 99% on Windows Power Plan; I'm now wondering if it's as common as I thought it is.... Idle temps are around 50 C with youtube videos playing though Chrome with 3-4 more tabs opened and just Origin/Steam in the background.
The notebook is just 3 months old so no dry paste problems might be occuring, I guess.
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I think so...
What I've done is lowering multipliers to x30 in 4 cores and 3 cores mod, used to be 34; it now doesn't throttle nor reaches temperatures higher than 90 C.
I woul'd have wanted to lower voltages too, to minimize the downclock but I have NO CLUE how to do it though XTU; used to overclock stuff through BIOS on my desktop and it wasn't as hard/easy as it looks on XTU, can anyone guide me through the process, before I end up doing something wrong, please?
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edit: also, the 99% power setting doesn't seem to work on the razer blade 2015. There's a bug in the bios that doesn't allow clock control properly. Multipliers below x17 work, but not above. Weird, I know. You can just check the "disable turbo" on the TS profile for whatever temp you deem to be too high (90C for me)Vistar Shook and Makyura like this. -
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Doublepost but had to say it works ****ing great.
Any cluye how to reduce Throttlestop to icon in the tray tho? The "minimize on close" thingie will just reduce to windows taskbar, not just system tray icon and this sucks, to be honest.
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To fix the tray issue, go to the throttlestop folder and open a shortcut "cleaning the icon cache". It will open a webpage with a .bat at the bottom that you can run. The issue is related to the icon cache.Makyura likes this. -
Sure, here is the report:
-61 mV to both CPU Parameters
-32 mV to iGPU
+125 MHz to dGPU Core
+ 280 MHz to dGPU Memory Clock
Throttlestop profiles:
1) Standard, x26 multiplier and turbo on
2) kicks in at a CPU temp of 90° C, x24 and turbo off
3) kicks in at a dGPU temp of 89° C, x22 and turbo off
-1hour long prime 95 test didn't bring it over 90° C
- 10' long prime95+furmark brought CPU to 95° and dGPU to 70° top
-1 hour long Star Wars Battlefront session, everything on ultra at FHD with rocksolid 60 Fps brought CPU to 92 ° C and dGPU to 82° C.
Will do BTW, thanks again!Last edited: Mar 4, 2016Eason likes this. -
BTW: if you have trouble with overclocks not being set, try making a task that simply opens nvidiainspector.exe (no command lines applied!) BEFORE the timer for the one that applies the actual clocks. This has been the failsafe (but slightly annoying to close the window manually) way to get overclocks to set without fail.Makyura likes this. -
BTW I think I'll pass on it, too annoying to close a Window every time I boot up, ahah!
BTW do you think my Temps are safe now? Haven't had any experience with notebook ever, used to be behind a water-cooled desktop. -
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Alright, could play a bit of Crysis 3, Titanfall and Talos Principle today and ended up finding out my GTX 970M reaches 85 C peaks (while CPU doesn't go over 87-88 C which is finally good enough).
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I did that on my 2014. Set cpu max state to 99% in control panel, keeps it from using turbo. I don't notice any difference in game performance.
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Take a few minutes to read the whole conversation, just in case you wannna share some knowledge with us
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Your CPU and GPU will both throttle if the temp gets too high, so I wouldn't worry about temperatures doing damage to your gear. What I consider to be more important is that the temps aren't causing your CPU / GPU to thermally throttle for performance reasons. But since it's pretty clear you know how to monitor temps and clock speeds, I'm sure you'd be able to identify if that was a problem.
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Googling didn't help letting me know what is the operativity range for this GPU; Nvidia releases such infos regarding desktop parts only...
Also the Blade is too conservative, noise wise, since the fans turn full power while CPU is at some 90-95° C already and theres noway that I know of to manually control them.
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Sweetness! Just finally created an account to post my results. After repasting and undervolting by 80mV, my 2014 Blade 14 now sits at 81C on the cpu and 83 on the 870m MAX!!! Very happy! Thanks so much for your guide.
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-61 mV to both CPU Parameters
-32 mV to iGPU
+125 MHz to dGPU Core
+ 280 MHz to dGPU Memory Clock
Throttlestop profiles:
1) Standard, x26 multiplier and turbo on
2) kicks in at a CPU temp of 90° C, x24 and turbo off
3) kicks in at a dGPU temp of 89° C, x22 and turbo off
Like I said I'm really new to it and I want to make my Razer Blade 2015 last a long time and don't want it to keep running as hot as it does when gaming. I just don't understand the lingo and where to go to set his settings. If u could walk me through specifically on how to do it. I don't want to trouble anyone, but I'm really interested in learning Underclocking. Also where do I find +125 MHz dgpu core and +280 dgpu memory clock? Does the program need to remain open 24/7 for it to underclock? Sorry for the dumb questions but I really have no idea about this stuff.Last edited: Apr 21, 2016 -
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