Thermal Throttling Laptop :(

[D2ultima]

50 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

replace the thermal paste with mx-4/arctic silver 5

This is one of the worst possible advice you could give a laptop user. MX-4 is absolutely terrible for the low mounting pressure on laptops, and it's also very bad with thermally dense heat sources. It's honestly not a very good thermal paste and only really works well between an IHS and a HS with higher mounting pressure.

 

AS5 is pretty decent, but IC Diamond, Gelid GC Extreme, Kryonaut, and even Arctic Ceramique 2 are all better choices.

[Big3moke]

59 minutes ago, D2ultima said:

This is one of the worst possible advice you could give a laptop user. MX-4 is absolutely terrible for the low mounting pressure on laptops, and it's also very bad with thermally dense heat sources. It's honestly not a very good thermal paste and only really works well between an IHS and a HS with higher mounting pressure.

 

AS5 is pretty decent, but IC Diamond, Gelid GC Extreme, Kryonaut, and even Arctic Ceramique 2 are all better choices.

I am thinking the thermal paste might be under performing; might have to change it (scary) but I have been seeing other people who changed their old laptop paste and got way better results. So I will keep that in mind, also thanks for the paste suggestions

[Big3moke]

I am looking at Gelid GC Extreme and might purchase it late on. Kinda exciting changing thermal paste