Anyway I was just thinking how much does it help to put a thermal pad between the heatsink and the bottom of the laptop and for some details if anyone has done that
I’ve put a small piece of a 1.5 mm thick thermal pad into the grove of the heatsink (the place it contacts CPU) and it lowered the temps by 10-15 degrees under the stress load. I’m using the mprime app to do stress tests.
Before the upgrade it was rocketing to 100 degrees almost immediately and then started to throttle and decrease temp to 60-65 degrees. After the mod it only goes up to ~85 degrees (90 degrees if repeat tests within a short period of time), but then, slightly later than before the mod, again starts to throttle.
85 degrees is better than 100, but I still unhappy about this. I’m thinking about replacing a thin thermalpad between the CPU and the heatsink with thermalpaste and using 2mm thermalpad between the sink and the bottom instead of a 1.5mm one, because it feels that the pressure and contact is not strong enough.
