Things didn’t work out with the EC360 graphite pad, after completing the build and putting everything back together the laptop turned on and got stuck at the ASUS ROG BIOS Logo, it then after 1 min turned off and repeated the cycle until it simply turned off. I was sure my build went fine so…
This seems like an interesting product, a 0.05mm thick graphite pad with a 20 W/mK thermal conductivity rating vertically and 450 W/mK horizontally. I plan to try this instead of liquid metal on the CPU and seeing as the GPU is also in need of something I’ll give it a go there too. I picked…
It’s been around 6 months since I took the laptop apart to apply new liquid metal on the CPU and new thermal paste on the GPU which has been working without issues. I originally got the laptop as I had planned 3 months away in a different country so wanted something that could play a…
Laptops with high end Intel CPUs will run hot by design due to all the boost technology Intel has crammed into the chip so if you are not sure how well your laptop cooling is performing this might help. Testing baseline cooling performance In a very short summary, the default design of the Intel mobile…