Should I repaste my CPU?

[TheEnchantedAxeYT]

I got a HP Elitebook Folio 9470m (i5-3437U, currently 8GB DDR3 single channel RAM, no dedicated GPU). Should I repaste the CPU, I'm pretty sure the thermal paste is currently just the stock one. I currently get around 65C CPU temp when just watching a few youtube videos. While it doesn't seem to thermal throttle according to aida64 it can still get pretty hot, like too hot to touch. Will repasting it actually make a difference in my thermal performance. If I do i would use Cooler Master MasterGel Regular as that's the only one readily available here. I tried undervolting it but then discovered its not supported on intel processors older then 4th gen. Pls if you have any other tips for cooling (other than obvious stuff like cleaning and making sure its on a flat, hard surface) feel free to inform my dumbass of them.

Edit: Also according to task manager the CPU often goes to and stays at 2.65GHz even though the turbo is only 2.4Ghz

Edited November 14, 2020 by TheEnchantedAxeYT

[Wolly9102]

10 minutes ago, TheEnchantedAxeYT said:

I got a HP Elitebook Folio 9470m (i5-3437U, currently 8GB DDR3 single channel RAM, no dedicated GPU). Should I repaste the CPU, I'm pretty sure the thermal paste is currently just the stock one. I currently get around 65C CPU temp when just watching a few youtube videos. While it doesn't seem to thermal throttle according to aida64 it can still get pretty hot, like too hot to touch. Will repasting it actually make a difference in my thermal performance. If I do i would use Cooler Master MasterGel Regular as that's the only one readily available here. I tried undervolting it but then discovered its not supported on intel processors older then 4th gen. Pls if you have any other tips for cooling (other than obvious stuff like cleaning and making sure its on a flat, hard surface) feel free to inform my dumbass of them.

Edit: Also according to task manager the CPU often goes to and stays at 2.65GHz even though the turbo is only 2.4Ghz

Probably yes. Thermal paste dries up over the years. So it's good to change at least once a year. But that temps are not too bad. 

[fordy_rounds]

If it's not throttling, I wouldn't worry about it. Repasting could actually make it hotter to the touch, as you get better thermal transfer to the heatsink (that is, if your CPU temps drop, that heat's going into the heatsink instead). But it probably wouldn't hurt anything either. If you need to be inside the guts for some other reason too, go ahead and do it. (For example, I just repasted a laptop because I had to take the heatsink off to upgrade RAM, so I figured while I was in there I'd do it. If I hadn't upgraded the RAM, though, I wouldn't have bothered.)

[TheEnchantedAxeYT]

Also will filling the second memory slot with another 8GB yield better fps in valorant?

[Sharif]

For how old that laptop is, it wouldn't hurt, just make sure to swap it with something decent and don't zap your laptop while you are in there.

 

I bought a laptop from the marketplace from the 6th gen era, and that's the first thing I'll do to it, along with making sure all the up to date drivers and bios revisions are slapped on before installing all the software and transferring data. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 hours ago, Wolly9102 said:

Probably yes. Thermal paste dries up over the years. So it's good to change at least once a year. But that temps are not too bad. 

Good compound shouldn't need replacing for at least 5 years.  MX-4 for example promises 8 years. https://www.arctic.ac/en/MX-4/ACTCP00007B