t41s running quite cool after arctic silver application

[thewhippingboy]

I am posting for the first time here, but am not new at all to the forums; i have been a lurker since i received a brand new t41 as a gift from my father around this time a year ago.

Recently I noticed my t41 was not running as cool as it used to when i first got it. having built many computers, i had plenty of arctic silver around. so i went ahead and removed the old junk and applied this stuff. the difference is amazing. the load temps used to be 71c, now they are 64c.

thanks to this board for everything thinkpad related, including helping me replace my china keyboard with a thai-made, destroying the recovery partition on my 40gb hard drive when i replaced it with a seagate 100gb, and even showing me where the bluetooth mini card would go, even though my model doesn't have the antenna.

[vliou]

What's weird is that i see so many high temps on this forum, and i myself have a t42, it runs 40'c normal, and 50's under intense...ambient temp is around 25-30

[jdhurst]

My T41 runs from 37 to 43 Degrees C depending on ambient room temp (from 20C to 25C) under most operating conditions. I ran a Symantec Client Security Scan that took over an hour the other evening and temperature rose as high as 75C but averaged more like 60C or less over the hour. There were only modest peaks of very high temperature.

I have somewhat recently replaced the CPU and use new thermal compound carefully applied. Not Arctic Silver however.
... JD Hurst

[thewhippingboy]

dothans should run a good bit cooler due to the 90nm process as opposed the 130nm of the banias.

[K. Eng]

That's a pretty good decrease in system temperatures. I wonder why more manufacturers don't use better thermal compound. The added cost probably wouldn't be all that much.

[tehsoul]

also i believe that 15" models have less problems running cooler

[etherealtml]

WOw that is quite a difference in temperature. Tell me, does your T41 also use the ATI mobility radeon 9600?

I think I have a bit of arctic silver lying around here too. I wonder if I can't achieve similar results with my T42.

[STS06]

How do you check your CPU's operating temperature? Dumb question I know! Thanks for the help!

[GeorgeP]

Two options I'm aware of are Mobile Meter or Centrino Hardware Control. Both are simple, easy-to-use pieces of software. CHC provides a lot of other useful functions in addition to temp information.

G

[eigh]

i wonder if the thermal compound degrades over time.


my new t43 runs 43-48 degrees, and about 60 at load. i dont think adding arcit silver would help much for me.

[thewhippingboy]

etherealtml, my t41 has the radeon 7500.

one tip, arctic silver's website has a great set of instructions. follow them exactly for the best results. (pentium 3 instructions will work for the pentium m)

also, i'd suggest not lifting the cooler once it has been placed on the compound because it introduces tiny air bubbles in to the mixture which is exactly what the compound is supposed to fill in.

i've been using arctic silver for 3 years now on another cpu and the temps are still the same as they were to begin with. remember, there is also a break-in time with the arctic silver, so temps will go down even more after the first 200 hours of running the cpu.

good luck!

[thewhippingboy]

Another tip, i've found that the ocz brand silver thermal compound, which is rebranded arctic silver, can usually be had for cheaper. check it out if you don't have any lying around.

[etherealtml]

Another tip, i've found that the ocz brand silver thermal compound, which is rebranded arctic silver, can usually be had for cheaper. check it out if you don't have any lying around.

Cheaper yeah, but OCZ was busted a few years back because someone did a chemical test on their thermal compound which determined that contrary to OCZ's claims, their paste actually had NO amount of micronized silver. OCZ released a statement saying that it was not their fault and that they had contracted a 3rd party manufacturer to produce their thermal compound, and that they would switch manufacturers immediately. This news is about 1 year old, I wonder how their product has changed since then

[emorphien]

I usually find it easiest to just avoid OCZ entirely.