Originally Posted by
sprooj
Gonna go ahead and say you mounted it wrong the first time, or you're flat out lying. Stock thermal compound->AS5 often times wont yield any difference at all.
AS5 isn't electrically conductive.
He's right for the most part, at least from what I can tell from my personal experience.
My Asus laptop used to have overheating problems during the summer of 2008 (to the point of shutdown, while gaming). The stock thermal compound seemed like a really poor quality material and it got almost as hard as stone.
I had to scratch it out using some alcohol and a screwdriver with maximum care. As soon as I removed it completely (from both my CPU and GPU) I then applied some AC MX-2 . The result: never had problems with overheating again, not a single time.
Stock thermal compound often have minimal quality. I don't recommend it, if you can use a more trusted product, then do it.
Last edited by GenkiSudo; Jun 9, 2010 at 04:13 AM.