MacBook Pro Heat Issues Solved

[Jonny M]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...readid=1864582

It's a pretty hardcore procedure, but it does work, and makes perfect sense. I can't believe Apple encourage use of that much thermal paste per die.

[Gordy]

Saw this on the apple forums but I can't say I'm bothered by the heat tbh.

Shocking amount of thermal paste tho

[trashcanmonkey]

Hi Guys! could someone possibly fill me in with the procedure,
the linked site is blocked by the jolly old college firewall.......

Cheers

[fuddam]

temps too high, so remove all thermal paste with alcohol, reapply paste sensibly, and bawb's your auntie

reduced from 54/50 to average 39C

sweeeeeeeeeet

[ExceededGoku]

lol thats the consequence of moving from IBM to Intel

[Gordy]

Not really its the consequence of too much thermal paste...

[Spud1]

It's almost unbelievable, but then its a brand new apple product - if it wasnt full of bugs then it wouldn't be a true apple product would it

Shocking amount of paste though, it seems crazy that they go to the trouble of designing a beautiful laptop, and then skimp on some of the technical considerations. Even I know that you should only put the paste on the core itself, and even then only enough to ensure a near perfect contact with the heatskink/pipe...

[stuppy]

Isn't thermal paste conductive so that it removes heat away from the core and through the heatsink? How come when they splodge it all over the CPU/GPU/NBRIDGE it doesnt knacker the chips as its going all over the circuits? I always crap myself when applying AS5 cause I always think that getting it anywhere but on the core is going to blow the chip!

[shaithis]

Thermal paste isn't electrically conductive unless its subjected to a lot of pressure.

So the bits around the core that aren't being pressurised by the heatsink are completely safe.

[Lowe]

That's shocking to say the least, someone at Apple build needs some lessons in basic heatsink/chip mating....