I have fully cleaned and redone the thermal material / paste on the laptop however there appears to be a shortage of Thermal Grizzly’s Conductornaut Extreme so my only choice has been to use the regular Conductornaut liquid metal. The extreme version doesn’t contain Tin which is added to reduce the melting point of the…
It’s been 1 year since I put Arctic MX-6 thermal paste in the laptop as a temporary replacement and it’s been doing ok but recently I have started to notice slightly higher peak temperatures at times so decided it’s time to check the thermal paste. Arctic MX-6 Thermal Paste Looking at the images it’s clear…
Many Gaming laptops run hot and often it’s a combination of factors but all will have one element that is mainly going to impact the CPU heat output which is how fast the Processor Cores are running. Some laptops with Intel HX series or AMD HX series CPUs will usually have some software tools (Intel…
Monitor refresh rates are usually tied to the monitor profile / driver so if you have a monitor capable of say 165Hz but Windows only allows you to choose 60Hz or 165Hz you will only have these two options available. Whilst this is not usually an issue you may want to decrease the refresh rate…