NS wrote:Reading this thread reminds me of benottomex advise. To apply artic silver 5 to the CPU.
Will that work for this case?
Been using artic silver 5 for all my thinkpads and so far all thinkpads are running cooler than normal.
Regards,
The following is the BEST way to get your temps down:
1) clean off the HSF and apply AS5 (per their directions)
2) download notebook hardware control and install (for dual core CPUs make sure to DL the patch)
3) use NHC and a stress program like Prime95 (Orthos for dual core chips b/c you want to stress both cores at the same time) to find the LOWEST voltage you can run your chip at EACH multiplier, then have NHC set it to that voltage on bootup
I used the above on the aforementioned T42 w/ Dothan 2.1GHz and it cut the temps at full load from 95C to 85C (which is a huge drop for a fully loaded CPU in a laptop). Testing with NHC per the above method I found my 2.1GHz chip was rock solid at 0.25V below stock.
NOTE: the above ONLY works with windows XP. There are some bugs in NHC running on Vista (and Vista doesn't like giving up control of the hardware).