Curiosity97

I stayed up until like 6 in the morning trying to figure it out. It turns out that there is a significant gap between the surface of the cooling pipes and the surface of the GPU in my y50-70. Upon applying a pea sized amount of Arctic-MX4 to the GPU, seating it and removing it, the cooling pipes had a minimal amount of paste all beaded up in the center, but the GPU had a pleasant, even coating. So the reason for the absolutely excessive amount of paste on the components is because the laptops were manufactured with a huge fucking gap between the GPU/CPU, and they just splurged paste to compensate for it. I cleaned off the old stuff with 80% alcohol and Q-tips until a shiny surface was achieved. I then applied the thermal paste, layered on the graphite cooling pad to help close the gap, then put a little more thermal paste on the cooling pipes. The temps are slightly lower now? So maybe I just need to use exclusively thermal paste?

I haven't tried to apply any synthetic loads to my system as of yet. I'm just reading my temps from Speedfan. Just trying to load up Warframe hikes up my GPU temperature readings up to 80C in a few seconds, and my fans to start screaming at max. I'm attempting to diagnose a laptop here.

I'll have to take my cooling system apart and try again, I suppose. This time without the thermal pads. What sorts of tips do I have to follow when applying thermal paste? I doubt it's my software, as both mine and my friends systems throttle super hard when trying to run games.

I had been needing to do maintenance on my Lenovo y50-70. So I ordered those IC Graphite thermal pads, as well as some backup Arctic-MX4, and some soft silicone thermal pads, cleaned out the dust from the vents and fans and cleaned off any excess thermal paste before applying the IC graphite thermal pads onto my CPU and GPU, but now my thermal performance is significantly worse? I made the mistake of doing maintenance on my friends laptop, but instead I used Arctic-MX4 on the CPU and GPU, and I have the same issue. In both instances, I reconnected all appropriate cables, made sure I evenly coated the dies, but I just didn't test before I did the work. Does anyone know what I did wrong?