GPU Shims

[thesloc]

Re: GPU Shims

I have reballed countless D630s/620s. That epoxy stuff is nonsense. All you have to do is preheat the board and remove it with tweezers or whatever you can.

[thesloc]

Re: GPU Shims

But if you're stubborn so be it, I'm just trying to be of some help

[ratdude747]

Re: GPU Shims

[ratdude747]

Re: GPU Shims

got the pads in... what the buddy didn't tell me was that they were part of an NOS d620/d630 nvidia heatsink that he happened to have... not a used pull, brand new (as in no die marks on any of the pads).

when I pulled off the old heatsink, there was a mat of dust covering about 30% of the inlet of the heatsink...

so far my temps have been not too bad... the gpu got up to 72C during a youtube video but when not giving it much load it is staying about 60-65 ish.

[thesloc]

Re: GPU Shims

[popeye]

Re: GPU Shims

got the pads in... what the buddy didn't tell me was that they were part of an NOS d620/d630 nvidia heatsink that he happened to have... not a used pull, brand new (as in no die marks on any of the pads).

when I pulled off the old heatsink, there was a mat of dust covering about 30% of the inlet of the heatsink...

so far my temps have been not too bad... the gpu got up to 72C during a youtube video but when not giving it much load it is staying about 60-65 ish.

Hi ratdude747

I have done some experiments in the past on the HP laptops that I get in for repair after correctly cleaning out the by takeing it apart replaceing any heat sink compound with the one i have used for the last 30 odd years only ever baught three 25g tube last a long time I use less than the manufacturers when I have assembled it I then check that the rubber feet are in tackt if not I replace then so the laptop is off the bench surface I messure the temp by the laptop exaust grill I then put the laptop on a lsaptop stand wich raises the back up then did the same check the results were with out stand the temp was about 3 or 4 times higher. so I recomend to all my trade and public customers to get a staad cost here UK £1 less than 2$ us and never put a laptop on a bed carpet your lap air needs to flow. and if fan etc; cleaned regular. you will have your laptop running a lot longer hope this helps a lot of people.

[ratdude747]

Re: GPU Shims

Hi ratdude747

I have done some experiments in the past on the HP laptops that I get in for repair after correctly cleaning out the by takeing it apart replaceing any heat sink compound with the one i have used for the last 30 odd years only ever baught three 25g tube last a long time I use less than the manufacturers when I have assembled it I then check that the rubber feet are in tackt if not I replace then so the laptop is off the bench surface I messure the temp by the laptop exaust grill I then put the laptop on a lsaptop stand wich raises the back up then did the same check the results were with out stand the temp was about 3 or 4 times higher. so I recomend to all my trade and public customers to get a staad cost here UK £1 less than 2$ us and never put a laptop on a bed carpet your lap air needs to flow. and if fan etc; cleaned regular. you will have your laptop running a lot longer hope this helps a lot of people.

well, I know not to use it directly on a bed... that defeats the purpose of the fan and will fry a laptop in a month.... as for the temps, I was using lm-sensors to read the laptop's sensors... example:

$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +44.5°C (crit = +99.0°C)

nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +65.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +44.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +44.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

ummm... ok? I was just saying that the parts came in and all was well.