And yet another reason to use AS5

Like many I live on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000 ~ P3 850Mhz) but the cooling was never good. Stock under full load I could hit 73C, then about 2 years ago I cleaned up the stock heat sink and added AS3 and it lowered my load temp to 63C now Today I cleaned it up and added AS5 and my load temp dropped to 57C!! I don't know if it will do better of worse when it cures but it still is quite impressive. So IMHO if you have a laptop this may be a good option to those cooling pads (assuming you know how to do it)

well, a bit of advice is, when reapplying TIM's, lap the heatsink so it removes all remaining particles of the previous TIM, then clean it up with alcohol

and btw, gj, i usually try putting better thermal compounds on ym things like NB's, gpu's...and most importantly, cpu

Pretty good temp difference - probably more evident with a not as good heatsink. Sweet deal...I really need to pick some AS5 up, especially with my 1500 grit lapped waterblock.

dalilman52 said:

well, a bit of advice is, when reapplying TIM's, lap the heatsink so it removes all remaining particles of the previous TIM, then clean it up with alcohol

and btw, gj, i usually try putting better thermal compounds on ym things like NB's, gpu's...and most importantly, cpu

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The stock heat sink is cast so it has lots of little pits and groves and the TIM was easy to clean up with a razor and alcohol. And because of its shape I can't lap it, but I did use a paper and AS5 to fill in the pits with a good rub down. Then applied AS5 to the CPU and reassembled it and my regular / idle temp is at 40~42C down about 3~4C!