Hello all
I have a 4 year old Acer Aspire 7745g laptop that has been running hot for a while. It idles at around 50 C, but any games increases that to around 70-80 C. I'm using a laptop cooling stand with two fans, which helps a bit, but not as much as it used to. I finally decided to take it apart, dust off the gpu fan, and apply some thermal paste.
I took off the heatsink and found excess (as far as I know) hardened paste all over. My understanding was that the paste should be on the actual card, and not the green frame (picture below, because I doubt my explanation was very good). What should I do? Try to remove everything, or just the parts on the protruding little silver card (not sure what exactly it's called).
Thanks
http://imgur.com/1vSZp16
I have a 4 year old Acer Aspire 7745g laptop that has been running hot for a while. It idles at around 50 C, but any games increases that to around 70-80 C. I'm using a laptop cooling stand with two fans, which helps a bit, but not as much as it used to. I finally decided to take it apart, dust off the gpu fan, and apply some thermal paste.
I took off the heatsink and found excess (as far as I know) hardened paste all over. My understanding was that the paste should be on the actual card, and not the green frame (picture below, because I doubt my explanation was very good). What should I do? Try to remove everything, or just the parts on the protruding little silver card (not sure what exactly it's called).
Thanks
http://imgur.com/1vSZp16