thermal paste Thermal Paste

[Antonieuk]

So my question is would it be worth replacing the Thermal Paste on my New Laptop I own a Acer Swift 5 ultrabook with a i7 8550u that idles around 50c Think there taking Tips of Apples Designers about how to make a CPU run as hot as possible  so in the coming weeks im going to be installing a NVME Drive and i'm thinking well i've got the Laptop Open would it be worth Replacing the Stock Thermal Paste with something Like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut I know the Difference That Liquid Metal can make but i don't like the idea of using it so i wanna stick to a standard Non Conductive Paste

Thanks for any Input in this matter 

[Fasauceome]

Idle temps don't matter at all. 

[5x5]

What are your load temps? Those are what matter. Ie is normal for a laptop. Mine all idle between 40 and 50

[Princess Luna]

While there are gains to be had it involves a lot of hassle and expense... I'd say the thermals are within expected if you still manage to keep a clock above base on peak load.

 

Also Liquid Metal is not something to mess around, we see thread after thread in here people who just burned their CPU with it instead. Buy highest end thermal compound you can afford rather.

[Antonieuk]

running Cinebench r15 the cpu hits 81c and then drops down to Base Clock Speeds well browsing the net doing normal day to day things it stays between 50 - 60c with a clock speed of 3.8ghz boost speed 

[5x5]

7 minutes ago, Antonieuk said:

running Cinebench r15 the cpu hits 81c and then drops down to Base Clock Speeds well browsing the net doing normal day to day things it stays between 50 - 60c with a clock speed of 3.8ghz boost speed 

That's normal. You'll never get more tha 2.6Ghz under a load longer than 30 seconds. It's a hard power limit. Nothing to do with temperature. In order for the cpu to reach 3.8 it needs about 40W whereas the 8550U has a max sustained power limit of 15W

[Antonieuk]

2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

That's normal. You'll never get more tha 2.6Ghz under a load longer than 30 seconds. It's a hard power limit. Nothing to do with temperature. In order for the cpu to reach 3.8 it needs about 40W whereas the 8550U has a max sustained power limit of 15W

Yeah i understand that i'm just wondering if it would help temps to replace it well i'm working on the laptop or is it a waste of time and money

[5x5]

Just now, Antonieuk said:

Yeah i understand that i'm just wondering if it would help temps to replace it well i'm working on the laptop or is it a waste of time and money

Waste of time imo. The temps won't affect anything in your case.