Article:		MacBook Pro: The Thermal Paste Question
Subject:		one thing i havent seen discussed
Date:		2006-05-25 19:46:31
From:		pfile
all the different forums talking about this problem, as does this article, describes putting a very thin layer of heatsink compound on, since that's what arctic silver says to do. i think for a desktop PC, that is probably right. anyone that's ever built a PC knows that the heatsinks go on with an absolutely ridiculous amount of force. i'm reasonably certain that such force is not possible in a laptop since there is no room for huge levers, etc. so i guess what i am saying is that it might be appropriate to use a bit more thermal compound in the case of a laptop, since the distance between the die and the heatsink is probably not as infinitesimal...

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• one thing i havent seen discussed
  2006-05-25 21:04:01  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  Yeah. I've wondered the same thing. One thing that I don't know is how much torque should be applied to the screws that join the logic board to the heat pipe. There are at least 4, maybe more, screws that go into the logic board that pull the heatpipe assembly up into the board and which aren't for connection to the chassis.
  
  I do know I was getting decent contact between the logic board and the heatpipe because of the double disassembly. I had lots of transfer of the thin layer of thermal paste onto the heat pipe pads from the chips.