R51 running warm

[jronald]

I bumped my wife's R51 from a 1.6 to a 1.7, and then added a gig of memory, now she is telling me it is hitting 80c at times on facebook. Is there a different fan between the two cpu's ?

Thanks
Ron

[Harryc]

No, there is only one fan - FRU#13N5182
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-53115

[RealBlackStuff]

Remember the old thermal paste?

[jronald]

I did remember the paste, but I don't know if I used the White stuff or the Grey. looks like Im going into the thing in a little while to find out. If i did use the White, I knew there was a reason I did not like the stuff.

Ron

[madkat]

I've tried for a couple of days a 1.7 in the R51 (in my signature) - with the stock fan. With thermal paste applied (not AS5 - some grey no name goo) it never reached more than 60 degrees celsius. The reason i went back to the 1.6 was the barely noiceable increase in speed, versus almost 10 degrees temperature "gain"

[jronald]

Used the gray stuff................

That said I swapped the CPU back (and broke the [censored] keyboard), then pushed the crapola out of it and was only able to get it to 65 degrees. Wonder why it does not like the 1.7?

Ron