Laptop thermal paste application

[jvelz]

So i have this tuf505du laptop and i have been getting crazy temps even when playing 2d games. I am not very much into hardware and has close to zero experience changing thermal pastes. some of the components under the heat sink has different textures of paste.

 

I asked one of my friends and told me those were thermal pads.

 

My question, is it okay to replace the thermal pads with thermal paste?

 

Or i could be wrong. I just need some englightenment before opening the laptop 

 

 

Heres a picture i found on some yt tutorial about the areas that possibly has thermal pads.

[5x5]

No, thermal pads have to be replaced with mads and they must be EXACTLY the same thickness (down to 0.1mm) else you'll have even more massive issues.

[Enderman]

Those don't look like thermal pads at all.

Thermal pads are rectangles, not spread out blobs.

[schwellmo92]

That just looks like thermal paste on everything, worst case you can reuse thermal pads if they are there.

[jvelz]

9 minutes ago, schwellmo92 said:

That just looks like thermal paste on everything, worst case you can reuse thermal pads if they are there.

I still haven't opened mine until the thermal paste and pads have arrived.

[jvelz]

16 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Those don't look like thermal pads at all.

Thermal pads are rectangles, not spread out blobs.

Still have to wait before opening mine. The supplies havent arrived yet

[jvelz]

35 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

No, thermal pads have to be replaced with mads and they must be EXACTLY the same thickness (down to 0.1mm) else you'll have even more massive issues.

Do you know what type of thickness should i apply for the tuf505 series?