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Edien · #1 Post by **Edien** » Mon May 30, 2005 2:04 pm

Weeee ordered my new 266872U T43 from IBM's site... Taking forever to process the order tho!

One quick question: Should I risk putting Arctic Silver 5 on the CPU and stuff? I heard that some notebooks actually do better with the thermal pads left on...( which is kinda odd but hey... whatever ^^; )

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Navck · #2 Post by **Navck** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:19 pm

Don't use silver, that stuff can fry your system if you leave it on anything with eletricity due to the capacitive property. Use the creamque (Spelling?) stuff, its not even capactive.

#3 Post by **aamsel** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:10 pm

There have been a couple of recent threads reporting temperature drops (search for Arctic Silver).
If you want to be 100 percent sure that you do not affect your warranty, I would not do anything to modify the system as received from Lenovo/IBM.
I would limit "modifications" to adding memory, changing a hard drive, adding bluetooth, changing the wireless card. Those are changes that won't cause any issues.
I don't know that doing Arctic Silver would cause a warranty issue, I just don't know that it couldn't.

If anyone has a more defintive answer, please reply.

Andrew
Austin, TX

Edien wrote:Weeee ordered my new 266872U T43 from IBM's site... Taking forever to process the order tho!

One quick question: Should I risk putting Arctic Silver 5 on the CPU and stuff? I heard that some notebooks actually do better with the thermal pads left on...( which is kinda odd but hey... whatever ^^; )

Thanks

Navck · #4 Post by **Navck** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:21 pm

IBM - Modifiy it friendly
Most other prebuilts void warranty for even removing a screw... To add memory
And some physco ones void you for removing bloatware from their laptops, infact reformats are autovoid, even if the tech on their phone says "DO IT"

Yes, I would like to know so I can add some better stuff if I do get a T43p

runixd · #5 Post by **runixd** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:02 am

I really don't think you can void warranty by modifying software, but my guess is as long as the operation described in user manual, you can safely do it. Most manuals describe how to access harddrive and memory slot, I haven't seen any which describes how to replace cpu coolant. If its heat is not bothering you, its probably a good idea to keep it as it is, otherwise you can try of course, chances of frying modern intel are very low.

#6 Post by **aamsel** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:07 am

Just be sure to change the antifreeze each winter!!

Andrew
Austin, TX

runixd wrote:...I haven't seen any which describes how to replace cpu coolant...

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