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- Thermal Grease
- A conductive substance that is used to transfer heat from one device to another. For example, when a heat sink is attached to a chip, there is a huge...
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- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air updatedWell, as they sayToo much of a good thing can be bad.Hacker computerThey must switch the CPU with a hacked CPU.Geek-tech globs it on.Thermal grease is only there to fill...any gaps due to imperfections in the heat sink and the cpu...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Thermal grease and the MacBook
- Thermal grease and the MacBookno need to waitI guess we'll have to wait for the die hards to re-apply the grease on their MacBooks.it really doesn't matter what cpu and even what heatsink you're talking about, so we dont have to use a macbook specifically to know the end result...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
- Thermal grease and the MacBook
- Readers of The Apple Core remember the recent issue about the amount of thermal grease or paste that Apple applies to the chips in the MacBook Pro. There's pretty decent evidence that over-application of the paste is causing MacBook Pros to run hotter than they should. It appears that...
- Blog posts 2006-05-21
- Thermal grease theory
- Thermal grease theoryI hope you were kidding...I hope you were kidding with the question "Should Apple have done this in the first place, or is the MacBook Pro designed with the extra thermal grease to keep the fan from coming on?"Let's see, design a system that won't conduct heat away...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-01
- Thermal grease theory
- There's a theory making the rounds that the MacBook Pro's high temperatures are attributed to a misapplication of "thermal grease" that's applied to the CPU and GPU chips during the manufacturing process. A post by Interrupting Moss on the Something Awful forums mentions that "it just takes a slight misapplication...
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
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- Via hangs tough but not a real contender
- Via hangs tough but not a real contenderI use a VIA Chipset......and suffer every moment. It has patchy drivers for Windows, and it's Linux drivers are incompatible with any remotely-new distro, and even back then, they didn't properly function. The onboard GPU especially. That means everything falls on the CPU's...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)
- Remember the thermal paste problem with earlier MacBook Pros that was reported back in May 2006? Well, it's back. Read more about the grease problems in my earlier reports: Thermal grease theory - 01 May 2006 Thermal grease and the MacBook -...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Apple beefs up iPhone battery specs
- Apple beefs up iPhone battery specsThe Apple Marketing teamshould be the ones garnering all the praise, not Stve Jobs.Design the iPhone from the start with the better battery and glass screen and set the price. Display it with lesser battery and materials, then "upgrade: these items as they "listen", all...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro runs 25ò0cooler
- Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro runs 25ò0coolerFans changing speed often? What drive did you get?What drive did you get with it? I've been curious as to the performance of the 200GB 4200rpm compared to a 160GB at 5400. Also, are the fans changing speed a lot? My wife's MacBook sounds...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- IBM gives chips a cooling rinse
- IBM gives chips a cooling rinseplasma not magmaif a chip got as hot as the surface of the sun, you'd have a mini nuclear fireball in your computer that would probably destroy your whole office.I find this awfully hard to buy..."IBM estimates that some chips may have energy densities equivalent...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- MacBook RAM grease
- This picture cropped up from a MacBook user claiming that its thermal grease that leaked onto his RAM strips. ...the thermal grease applied to the internal components has leached into the RAM slots on my motherboard and have soiled the DIMMs with thermal grease. Apple notebook users get anxious over...
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Apple comes clean on MacBook vent cover up
- Apple comes clean on MacBook vent cover up"Clear" film??? Definitely a manufacturer error.If a smart manufacturer wants someone to remove packing material from an item, especially some sort of film on a non-visual item such as a vent as opposed to a keyboard, they would make it contrast with the...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
- MacBook Pro temperature graphs
- Phil Angell has posted the MacBook Pro Heat Page where he is posting the CPU temperature graphs of contributors MacBook Pros.Some people have opened their laptops and cleaned off the old Apple thermal grease and replaced it with Arctic Silver 5. A 20 - 30 degree Celsius drop in temperature...
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
- MacBook Pro Temperature Monitor
- MacBook Pro Temperature Monitorthis is cool - I wrote a wrapper for this toolNice find. I wrote a little wrapper for this tool that seems to work. I need a cool icon for the big "refesh" button though. Drop me a note if you want it (or maybe I'll just...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- MacBook Pro Temperature Monitor
- There is now a way to read the internal temperature of the MacBook Pro, something no other software has been able to do to date. A creative developer has figured out a way to get data from the internal monitors via a kernel extension kext. To install the...
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
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