Laptop Hot

[Ru66ian]

I went out and brought some arctic silver 5 thermal paste to change out the one put in by HP when i got my laptop, i also cleaned out the fans with compressed air and made a ram upgrade. when i turned my laptop on it ran fine for a few minutes, however when i launched a game the area of the laptop where the heatpipe runs began to be very hot to the touch. Any ideas on why and what i could do to fix it?! 

[bellabichon]

I'd pull the whole cooling assembly off and check the thermal paste application. In my experience, you actually need more paste on a laptop than on a desktop, because it needs to evenly coat the GPU/GPU dies and the copper plates on the heatpipe. Also, make sure you've mounted the pipes correctly. Uneven mounting pressure will cause you a lot of cooling problems. 

[Ru66ian]

1 hour ago, bellabichon said:

I'd pull the whole cooling assembly off and check the thermal paste application. In my experience, you actually need more paste on a laptop than on a desktop, because it needs to evenly coat the GPU/GPU dies and the copper plates on the heatpipe. Also, make sure you've mounted the pipes correctly. Uneven mounting pressure will cause you a lot of cooling problems. 

I honestly think the fans are just not keeping up to be honest, cpu runs now colder then ever. I recon with the new thermal paste is too good at heat transfer compared to the old one and the heatpipe and rad is just tiny. Thank you for the suggestion 

[Tcalp]

Is the laptop being used on a good surface (aka a desk, not a bed/blanket) ?

[Ru66ian]

1 minute ago, Tcalp said:

Is the laptop being used on a good surface (aka a desk, not a bed/blanket) ?

Yea on a wooden table.