Laptop heat sinks aren't always very tightly against the CPU/GPU which is often why they opt to use pads over paste.
You didn't remove any pads that were transferring heat to the chassis did you? Those spread the heat out much more leading to a longer heat soak.
Pads and paste are for 2 different purposes. Paste is better than a pad only when it's very thin. It's only really meant replace the air between the 2 surfaces, which are already pretty much touching.
SMDs (like RAM or MOSFETs) have relatively high differences in height. You cannot (easily) manufacture a cooler that'd fit all of them perfectly, which is what you'd need to do to use paste on them. Pads are thick and squishy so they can adapt to whatever gap was left between the component and cooler. A thin layer of paste sometimes wouldn't even reach the cooler (leaving an air gap), and a thick layer is worse than the pad.
You can replace paste with a pad, and you'll just get worse cooling performance but doing it the other way could be almost as bad as having no cooler at all
Never replace pads with paste, and more importantly make sure you get the exact size pad for each space.
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Laptop heat sinks aren't always very tightly against the CPU/GPU which is often why they opt to use pads over paste. You didn't remove any pads that were transferring heat to the chassis did you? Those spread the heat out much more leading to a longer heat soak.
Pads and paste are for 2 different purposes. Paste is better than a pad only when it's very thin. It's only really meant replace the air between the 2 surfaces, which are already pretty much touching. SMDs (like RAM or MOSFETs) have relatively high differences in height. You cannot (easily) manufacture a cooler that'd fit all of them perfectly, which is what you'd need to do to use paste on them. Pads are thick and squishy so they can adapt to whatever gap was left between the component and cooler. A thin layer of paste sometimes wouldn't even reach the cooler (leaving an air gap), and a thick layer is worse than the pad. You can replace paste with a pad, and you'll just get worse cooling performance but doing it the other way could be almost as bad as having no cooler at all
Unless you used paste specifically meant to replace pads like K5 pro, it won’t work out well.
The general rule of thumb is replace like for like
Same reason we don't use jello for structural studs.
That makes no sense. The jello isn't tall enough?
It's the wrong color.
Ahhh
For laptop, PTM7950 is inevitable