Reapply thermal paste on Alienware m11x

Synawke · May 6, 2017

I took it apart. Cant find any way to actually get to the CPU and GPU to replace thermal paste. I found disassembly videos but nothing shows it. Is it even possible? Idle is 50-60 on both GPU and CPU.

The Sloth · May 6, 2017

its possible looks very unnecessarily overengineered.

Pendragon · May 6, 2017

1 hour ago, Synawke said:

I took it apart. Cant find any way to actually get to the CPU and GPU to replace thermal paste. I found disassembly videos but nothing shows it. Is it even possible? Idle is 50-60 on both GPU and CPU.

requires full disassembly. not just take off the back cover. need to take off the motherboard off the chassis and flip it around and take off the cooler.

alienware switches between cancer free and canerous as fuck every few generations. the 2016-2017 models are the cancerous as fuck ones requiring full disassembly as well.