Hi everyone, the fan assembly in my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i 8932 rattled and vibrated like a mini lawn mower, so I bought a refurbished Lenovo assembly and replaced it myself. The new assembly is quiet and smooth and the computer seems to be running fine, BUT because I've never repaired a computer before and MIGHT have incorrectly applied the thermal paste (not sure which brand the guy gave me, but it was white and kind of like whipped cream/toothpaste in consistency, and I slathered a light coat on the entire copper surface area that goes over the CPU), should I go back in and reinstall? At a pretty cool room temp, my idle temps (< 10% load) are 35C-50C (according to CoreTemp and HWMonitor). When I test the cores using PC-Doc 5 (and the load goes to 100% for a sec or two), the core temps spike up to around 80C. And I've seen the core temps go as high as 83C. THM0 and THM1 run about the same, according to HWMonitor. But no system warnings or shutdowns -- everything seems to be running fine. Am I good to go? Or do I have to reinstall?
NOTE: The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 at 2.00 GHz.
Thanks much in advance.
NOTE: The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 at 2.00 GHz.
Thanks much in advance.