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Laptop CPU heat pipe not working.

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Hi everyone!

I have a Toshiba Laptop C55-a model and I am having some serious thermal issues.

I just replaced my CPU thermal paste with some arctic silver 5 and I am still seeing massive thermal throttling.

I am running my laptop opened up and I realize that the part of the heat pipe that the CPU is below is very very hot but at about the end of the pipe where the fan and the heat sink is the copper pipe barely has any heat to it.

The air coming out of the laptop is basically cold.

Does that mean that the copper heat pipe is bad and I need to replace it?

Thanks!

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Is it all one piece between the hot and cold parts? I don't see how a heatpipe could just go bad... no matter how long it's been used.

 

I would assume you didn't put enough paste in or you put too much and didn't tighten the heatsink onto the CPU enough... Take it apart and do it again and see if that changed anything. I know it's a pain in the ass to do again, but so is replacing a burnt-out laptop. And make sure your fan is plugged back in and facing the right direction.

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Yes you have a bad heatpipe, but you can't replace the pipe itself. The entire heatsink assembly needs to go, which I think for something this old (from Intel Core 3rd gen era?) your only chance is ebay, either as a single part or an entire dead machine which you disassemble and take that part out. Like repairing a old car with parts from a junk yard basically.

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Thanks for the replies!

The CPU has no problem transferring the heat to the heat pipe.

Also it is one piece between the hot and cold parts.

There is the whole heat pipe system on Ebay for around 15 USD I can buy.

Here is a screenshot of the inside of the laptop I took from one of the disassembly videos.

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Quick update guys.

I just closed my laptop back plate and now I am getting no more than 63 Celsius running a stress test for 30 minutes.

I ave no idea why having the laptop internals exposed made the machine throttle 50%+

I am extremely confused and shocked but whatever floats your boat I guess...

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I'm pretty sure your pipe is banged ,what causes the liquid inside the heat pipes to not be able to transfer along the pipe to give the Heat to the end of the pipe ( the fins) to be cooled by the fan

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