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Originally Posted by photon
Anyone ever re-paste a laptop? My kid's laptop is having seeming overheating issues after he dropped it and broke the screen, thought maybe doing so jarred the seating of the heat sink or something, and I thought I could just take it apart, inspect it, and redo all the thermal paste to at least try an inexpensive fix.
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The laptop company did terrible job of applying that liquid metal. Your going to really need to get every bit off really carefully with a q tip. Swirl the tip as you make each pass. Then take a tooth brush and 99% iso to the thermal putty on the chips and heat pipes. I personally would replace the putty with thermal pads if you can find any documentation. Thermal putty is easier because if you add to much it will just squish out. Juat not as good thermally as pads. For the gpu I would use a kyrosheet if you think you can keep it in place well enough for assembly. If not definitely use a good quality ptm7950 sheet. You could do.liquid metal again but I'm not personally a fan of how far the barrier is from the die. Usually the barrier is right on the edge of the die when it is applied.