Hey everyone,
Just wanted to share my recent experience with gaming on my laptop. While playing CS:GO was manageable, CS2 was a different story. My laptop kept hitting thermal limits, causing frustrating performance drops. So, I decided to do it myself and repaste it.
I wrote a simple script to monitor my temperatures and frequencies: thermalog script.
The results speak for themselves: thermalog results.
I wasn't even near to thermal limit even when I played in 2K instead of FHD.
I used Arctic MX-6. (I bought liquid metal also as a backup plan, but luckily I don't need it). I'm more than happy with the results.
My laptop is four years old, I highly recommend giving it a go if you're facing similar thermal issues.
Happy gaming!
In my experience the default thermal pads have always been trash.
be careful, if its paste ive seen it leaking out causing parts of the die to not make proper contact eventually killing the CPU/GPU.
i would suggest getting PTM7950 pads, these don't pump out.
Lifehack: Grab any 1970s 1 cent pure copper penny if you are worried about leakage and have the clearance and use that instead. It's nonsense but hilarious. Memory is hazy but I've seen significant gains from this in the past.
Also it's 10,000 - 100,000 times cheaper as a bonus.
Some manufacturers don't even remove the protective plastic before pasting and most just use the cheapest grease availlable.
My thinkpad got from notoriously loud to being mostly passive with some grease at the right places.
