Video Guide: Changing thermal paste(AS5) on Studio XPS 1645

[XmDXtReMeK]

Due to popular demand of people requesting a guide on how to change their thermal paste I decided to make a video guide for the community as a way of giving back. Enjoy and sorry if I'm no high quality youtube blogger. This is my first video ever.

Changing Studio XPS 1645 Thermal Paste(AS5) from XmDXtReMeK on Vimeo.

Notes:
You need isopropyl alcohol(99% or high purity)/arctic clean solution would work too with Q-Tips to clean up the previous compound. So please have that handy guys.

Also watch this video on why I will not spread the compound but put a pea size dab of the compound and let the pressure spread it. You do not want air pockets between your cpu and heatsink, it will cause a lose of the thermal interface and wont work optimal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXLu1Ms-q4

Break-In Period

Due to the unique shape and sizes of the particles in Arctic Silver 5 conductive matrix, it will take a up to 200 hours and several thermal cycles to achieve maximum particle to particle thermal conduction and for the heatsink to CPU interface to reach maximum conductivity. (This period will be longer in a system without a fan on the heatsink or with a low speed fan on the heatsink.) On systems measuring actual internal core temperatures via the CPU's internal diode, the measured temperature will often drop 2C to 5C over this "break-in" period. This break-in will occur during the normal use of the computer as long as the computer is turned off from time to time and the interface is allowed to cool to room temperature. Once the break-in is complete, the computer can be left on if desired.

UPDATE: I had a brain fart when I was applying paste guys, make sure if you have a quad proccessor to do a horizontal dab not a vertical dap like I did in the video. today I redid it with a horizonal dont make it too long. with vertical i was missing a tiny bit of paste on one corner of the CPU when I opened it up. really tiny corner so you get the point. It wouldn't have mattered much but I'm a perfectionist.

[JKleiss]

Perfect. Great work. I'm sure this will help alot of people.

[n3verm0re]

Thanks for the video. Mind telling us your new idle/load temperatures?

[daraj]

Great by the way. So there no need to spread the paste?

[Firehwk]

Nice job! Thanks a lot for this vid.

[XmDXtReMeK]

Great by the way. So there no need to spread the paste?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyXLu1Ms-q4 refer to the video in my guide.

[bipul_fx]

Hey XmDXtReMeK,
Thanx alot for the video guide. Really appreciated
Rep+

[Fenikkusu]

Thanks for the guide I'm actually going to try this myself in a week or two. So how much of a decrease in your temps did you see?

[kiskapu]

Now this is a really helpfull one, nice work, much appreciated!

[XmDXtReMeK]

Sorry guys I forgot to monitor my before temps haha, but my low is 42C and high is 47C idle. Im sure it will drop 3C-6C more after the break in period is over.