What thermal paste for laptop?

[galaxyrooter]

Dell XPS 15 9550

i5 6300hq

GTX 960m

Didnt receive the laptop yet, its on my way, but ive read that its notorious for thermal problems like high temps and throttling.

My plan is repasting and undervolting, which is something ive never done before. What thermal paste do you guys recommend, ive seen people talk about:
1. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut

2. Arctic Silver 5

3. Arctic MX-4

I need the best performance I can get from this CPU and GPU as Im coming from a better desktop

[Whiro]

3 minutes ago, galaxyrooter said:

Dell XPS 15 9550

i5 6300hq

GTX 960m

Didnt receive the laptop yet, its on my way, but ive read that its notorious for thermal problems like high temps and throttling.

My plan is repasting and undervolting, which is something ive never done before. What thermal paste do you guys recommend, ive seen people talk about:
1. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut

2. Arctic Silver 5

3. Arctic MX-4

I need the best performance I can get from this CPU and GPU as Im coming from a better desktop

Option 1 is definitely best (and most expensive) , other two are decent as well. You can also look at noctua tp

[ddennis002]

4 minutes ago, galaxyrooter said:

Dell XPS 15 9550

i5 6300hq

GTX 960m

Didnt receive the laptop yet, its on my way, but ive read that its notorious for thermal problems like high temps and throttling.

My plan is repasting and undervolting, which is something ive never done before. What thermal paste do you guys recommend, ive seen people talk about:
1. Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut

2. Arctic Silver 5

3. Arctic MX-4

I need the best performance I can get from this CPU and GPU as Im coming from a better desktop

I would go with thermal grizzly kryonaut or IC Graphite pads (<What I use).

I have a similar laptop to that but with i7 6700hq and GTX 960m and im going to guess dell isn't going to let you undervolt. No option in bios and intel software the option is locked out.

[galaxyrooter]

1 minute ago, ddennis002 said:

I would go with thermal grizzly kryonaut or IC Graphite pads (<What I use).

I have a similar laptop to that but with i7 6700hq and GTX 960m and im going to guess dell isn't going to let you undervolt. No option in bios and intel software the option is locked out.

Ive seen people that many have undervolted their 9550... probably with XTU

 

[mr mans]

I will second the IC Graphite pads. I have pretty much transitioned to only using those for all my builds. Super easy 

[galaxyrooter]

Is the price/performance ratio really that better in the Kryonaut than these 2? 

[Whiro]

1 minute ago, galaxyrooter said:

Is the price/performance ratio really that better in the Kryonaut than these 2? 

 

[galaxyrooter]

Ive checked the pricing of the thermal pads, seems like these IC pads are double the price of Kryonaut.. so thats out.

[ddennis002]

5 minutes ago, galaxyrooter said:

Ive seen people that many have undervolted their 9550... probably with XTU

 

Yea I used XTU no dice voltage control was locked out. I had a buddy trying to work on a custom bios but couldn't get some stuff working properly so never was able to do any voltage control.

[galaxyrooter]

Just now, ddennis002 said:

Yea I used XTU no dice voltage control was locked out. I had a buddy trying to work on a custom bios but couldn't get some stuff working properly so never was able to do any voltage control.

hmm http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/xps-15-9550-temperature-observations-undervolt-repaste.785963/

im confused

[ddennis002]

3 minutes ago, galaxyrooter said:

hmm http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/xps-15-9550-temperature-observations-undervolt-repaste.785963/

im confused

This is the system i have https://www.amazon.com/Dell-i7559-5012GRY-3840x2160-Touchscreen-i7-6700HQ/dp/B015PZ0EHS?th=1

Might be a inspirion vs XPS thing maybe. I was able to OC the gpu no issue and mess with turbo timings for the cpu in XTU but never able to change voltage. I had alot of thermal headroom so it didn't really bother me but battery life would have been a bit better.

[galaxyrooter]

Just now, ddennis002 said:

This is the system i have https://www.amazon.com/Dell-i7559-5012GRY-3840x2160-Touchscreen-i7-6700HQ/dp/B015PZ0EHS?th=1

Might be a inspirion vs XPS thing maybe. I was able to OC the gpu no issue and mess with turbo timings for the cpu in XTU but never able to change voltage. I had alot of thermal headroom so it didn't really bother me but battery life would have been a bit better.

ah probably its because its an inspiron, i thought you had an xps too

[ddennis002]

2 minutes ago, galaxyrooter said:

ah probably its because its an inspiron, i thought you had an xps too

the systems are almost identiacal hardware wise they made the i5 with 960m version for the 7559 as well.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Processor/dp/B015PYYDMQ

Edited January 7, 2020 by ddennis002
Link added

[galaxyrooter]

56 minutes ago, Whiro said:

 

btw are you still on 3570k? im currently on 3570 with a passive cooler. I bet the thermal paste is the 7 year old stock one lol

[Whiro]

15 minutes ago, galaxyrooter said:

btw are you still on 3570k? im currently on 3570 with a passive cooler. I bet the thermal paste is the 7 year old stock one lol

Yes I’m still using 3570k but using hyper 212 black and noctua paste , which I replace every half a year. I strongly advise to have a look on that paste, must be crispy after that long time  

[galaxyrooter]

17 hours ago, Whiro said:

Yes I’m still using 3570k but using hyper 212 black and noctua paste , which I replace every half a year. I strongly advise to have a look on that paste, must be crispy after that long time  

lol i dont care that much about it, its an HP small desktop, if it was something custom built, i would care about it haha