5 years later and just used this video again for the 2nd time on my XPS 9360 (Replaced Thermal Paste + Pads). Not sure how much life this laptop has left to give, but at least it will run cool for a few more years hopefully. Thanks again for the video and nice job!
already knew how to do this on a desktop build but thought i'd look up how to do this on my specific laptop. Worked like a charm. Don't hear fans ramping up anymore.
Thanks for the video. A rice grain sized blob of thermal paste on each processor is more than enough to do the job. Any more than that is a waste and will not be as thermally efficient as the thin layers that will result from refitting the heat pipe assembly. The thermal tape is a good idea but I would apply small sections rather than single long strips. That will allow more effective heat dissipation because there will be better air circulation via the vents. The bottom of the case will not heat up as much. And there will be much less risk of damage to the laptop's battery due to heat transfer via the case from the heat pipe to the surface of the battery pack. Cheers from the Land Down Under.
Your upgrade helped me tremendously! My laptop would turn on the fans when starting up, opening Chrome, basically when doing almost anything... Now I turned it on and haven't heard the fans for more than half an hour. The one thing I'd recommend would be to use slightly thinner thermal pads, perhaps? With 1.5mm pads I found that the laptop no longer sits fully level, or has a slight amount of wobble to it. Still awesome fix!
I have done the same, and it works much better. I have XPS 13 9360 i7 8550U, now within 17-18W of power (maximum) it holds steady 2.3-2.4 GHz, and only in 2-3 minutes of 100% it starts using the fan. And the temp does not go over 80°C. Idle temp is around 35-40°C in the room of 20-23°C. I used an old Arctic mx-4 (bought like 4 years ago, thought it was already expired), and Arctic Thermal Pad 1.5mm. On average use it is not using fans at all, and it is wonderful. Earlier AIDA stress test was heating CPU to 98-100°C and it was throttling around 30%
just did this. works still. bought a cheap sheet of thermal pads off of aliexpress and no longer thermal throttles... still jumps up to 90's but average is down like 8 C.
Thank you. I finally did it to my XPS 9360. However, i've used different product because it's hard to get in my place I use your method but modified a bit with spread thin the thermal paste onto the CPU Thermal paste : GELID GC-Extreme 2g Thermal pad : GELID GP-Extreme 1.5mm Final result on stress test: Before : Idle 40-45 | Max 99 with thermal throttled After : Idle 28-36 | Max 76 NO thermal throttled at all Awesome!!
Excellent video. I wonder how much difference just applying the thermal paste might have made on its own. Anything that can help the thermals on these thing and light laptops is a godsend.
Fresh thermal paste will make a big difference if it is replacing dried out paste or being applied to processors that have virtually no paste left on them due to age. On these types of devices it pays to refresh the paste at least every couple of years.
Hey thanks for the great video! In regards to the heat pads, using the backplate as a heat sink. Is there any risk by having this backplate so hot. I heard that one might damage the battery doing this. Kind regards
No. They don’t do this from the factory because it does make the bottom cover hotter obviously and they’d get blasted for it. Personally any time I’m doing something that’s going to fully load the CPU it isn’t sitting on my lap so I could care less.
Great video, i have just ordered a new heatsink as mine got bent and i am hoping the combination of this and the thermal pad mod will significantly reduce thermals. Currently hovering at around 85-95 which am not happy with at all. I will keep you posted on my findings
Hi, thank you. After mod thermals will be around 77C, but it can reach higher values depends on how long you stress CPU with full load. Anyway it will be much better than stock :)
thank you thank you thank you !! you saved my dear 9360 which used to turn on the fan (99 C) even just playing youtube with bluetooth headphones.. after the repaste it thermal throttled BUT with an undervoltage of 0.08 V (btw do you know its limit??) my i7-7500U goes flawless.. no fan rumors, ZERO thermal throttling at most importantly max temp (after more than one hour) of heavy stress is ridiculously 93 C!!!!!!! Normal usage never goes above 70.. everyone should repaste its laptop...way too cheap for it can give you!!!
@@ArifMdnor I have simply used Intel(R) Extreme Tuning Utility.. but the thing that bothers me the most, is that every time I reboot my computer I have to set "on" the undervoltage setting... After a few months, I have stopped undervoltaging my computer... from my expereince, it doesnt make a big different if you do regular stuff such as a few tabs on mozilla, spotify and microsoft team on (unless I play some game which turns on the fan and stabilized temperature b/w 70 adn 80 degrees celcius)
Hi. Great tutorial! Im about to do the same as you to my 3 years old 9360. 1. Will mx-4 do any different? 2. I saw u still left with plenty of thermal pad after the application. Can i use the rest and put it on top of the ssd + wlan + ram in small patches? Will it helps? Thank you
Hi, thanks! 1. It will be not noticable if will be at all. 2. About wlan and ram - no sense. About ssd - bad idea since ssd have throttling temperature about 60 degrees and cpu is about 100, literally your cpu will heat your ssd and force it to throttle.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 I do loads of sustained code compilation, which uses 100% CPU. Over past few weeks the repaste definitely made an improvement already, but still wanna try the thermal pads to see if it makes a difference as well. Even small, it helps
Great video! Does anyone have any recommendations on what thermal pads to use? I'm prepping to do these steps on my aging XPS 9350 model. Thanks in advance, appreciate all the help!
Is there a reason why you didn't cover the entire surface of the heatpipe with the thermal pad? Also, doesn't the pad melt and seep out through the holes?
There are no difference. It's enough two small pieces to dissipate heat. The point is to "connect" cover and pad in order to increase heatpipe thermal capacity.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 I was mentioning about those thermal pads you pasted onto the other side of the heat sink where it has no contact with any other metal to dispose off the heat, i am looking to replace stock compound on my XPS, so please let me know if this step is really reduces heat further.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 do you think that Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut cream will damage my copper plate when using it? I think using better thermal cream will have more effect than your way, because my laptop is dell 5510 precision with black insulation on back cover...
can you do anything outside of the case to help cooling further? If you have it "fixed" to a specific place in a setup, where you use the ports for external gpu and monitor? would that be worth while?
Hi, I didn't try to cool it externally, I think you could use some kind of "cooling pad". Feel free to use Dell USB-C dockstation (or some OEM dockstation) to connect external devices (HDMI, DP, LAN, USB). Also Dell Dockstation provides "one-cable" connection and can even charge your laptop, I think it's the best choice. Try to Google it using keyword "Dell 452-BCCQ".
@@thomasd8735 run a test on UEFI/BIOS and if the fan is faulty is should spurt out a QR code leading to Dell's website and the correct replacement part
Hi, unfortunately still didn't have my hands on this model. Currently I have new Dell XPS 15 (went to bigger screen) and there absolutely the same things, but no sense to do it here cause Dell make a proper cooler here.
@@chrislee6047 Regarding 13 inch model - I think you can try to perform this mod, I pretty doubt Dell made something better there than in 9360. Also good news, soon I will have on hands 9370 and 9380 models and will check all things
Hey man, I suppose that you can use the same way, but of course mobo is different and may be you need thermal pad with lesser thickness, The only way to find out is to try it yourself, good luck :)
Yes. 9343, 9350 and 9360 are exactly the same related to their internals. I broke the case a month ago and replaced my 9360 case with another one from 9350.
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5 years later and just used this video again for the 2nd time on my XPS 9360 (Replaced Thermal Paste + Pads). Not sure how much life this laptop has left to give, but at least it will run cool for a few more years hopefully.
Thanks again for the video and nice job!
I appreciate
already knew how to do this on a desktop build but thought i'd look up how to do this on my specific laptop. Worked like a charm. Don't hear fans ramping up anymore.
verrry clever! cant wait to try this on my 9370 with the 8550u. ordered some thermal grizzly 1.5mm pad kit. thank you
Thanks for the video. A rice grain sized blob of thermal paste on each processor is more than enough to do the job. Any more than that is a waste and will not be as thermally efficient as the thin layers that will result from refitting the heat pipe assembly. The thermal tape is a good idea but I would apply small sections rather than single long strips. That will allow more effective heat dissipation because there will be better air circulation via the vents. The bottom of the case will not heat up as much. And there will be much less risk of damage to the laptop's battery due to heat transfer via the case from the heat pipe to the surface of the battery pack. Cheers from the Land Down Under.
That worked flawlessly, its liek having a new laptop. thank you so much for this.
Your upgrade helped me tremendously! My laptop would turn on the fans when starting up, opening Chrome, basically when doing almost anything... Now I turned it on and haven't heard the fans for more than half an hour. The one thing I'd recommend would be to use slightly thinner thermal pads, perhaps? With 1.5mm pads I found that the laptop no longer sits fully level, or has a slight amount of wobble to it. Still awesome fix!
I have done the same, and it works much better. I have XPS 13 9360 i7 8550U, now within 17-18W of power (maximum) it holds steady 2.3-2.4 GHz, and only in 2-3 minutes of 100% it starts using the fan. And the temp does not go over 80°C.
Idle temp is around 35-40°C in the room of 20-23°C.
I used an old Arctic mx-4 (bought like 4 years ago, thought it was already expired), and Arctic Thermal Pad 1.5mm.
On average use it is not using fans at all, and it is wonderful.
Earlier AIDA stress test was heating CPU to 98-100°C and it was throttling around 30%
just did this. works still. bought a cheap sheet of thermal pads off of aliexpress and no longer thermal throttles... still jumps up to 90's but average is down like 8 C.
Thank you. I finally did it to my XPS 9360. However, i've used different product because it's hard to get in my place
I use your method but modified a bit with spread thin the thermal paste onto the CPU
Thermal paste : GELID GC-Extreme 2g
Thermal pad : GELID GP-Extreme 1.5mm
Final result on stress test:
Before : Idle 40-45 | Max 99 with thermal throttled
After : Idle 28-36 | Max 76 NO thermal throttled at all
Awesome!!
My idle temp is 60C...
Congrats!
thank you bro,
1,5 year old dell xps 13
with cpu at 100% (I5-8250u)
i had 100°C 30% throttling
and after this easy mod
I am at 88° without throttling
Lol, 100C looks like it would be better even without thermal paste at all :D anyway glad it helps
Excellent video. I wonder how much difference just applying the thermal paste might have made on its own. Anything that can help the thermals on these thing and light laptops is a godsend.
Fresh thermal paste will make a big difference if it is replacing dried out paste or being applied to processors that have virtually no paste left on them due to age. On these types of devices it pays to refresh the paste at least every couple of years.
Great video thank you!!
hey! What about putting thermal pads on top o fthe VRMs, MOSFETs, etc? Would that also help and be worth the effort? Cheers
Hey thanks for the great video!
In regards to the heat pads, using the backplate as a heat sink.
Is there any risk by having this backplate so hot.
I heard that one might damage the battery doing this.
Kind regards
No. They don’t do this from the factory because it does make the bottom cover hotter obviously and they’d get blasted for it. Personally any time I’m doing something that’s going to fully load the CPU it isn’t sitting on my lap so I could care less.
Awesome video! Thanks for the advice!
Great video, i have just ordered a new heatsink as mine got bent and i am hoping the combination of this and the thermal pad mod will significantly reduce thermals. Currently hovering at around 85-95 which am not happy with at all. I will keep you posted on my findings
Hi, thank you. After mod thermals will be around 77C, but it can reach higher values depends on how long you stress CPU with full load. Anyway it will be much better than stock :)
thank you thank you thank you !! you saved my dear 9360 which used to turn on the fan (99 C) even just playing youtube with bluetooth headphones.. after the repaste it thermal throttled BUT with an undervoltage of 0.08 V (btw do you know its limit??) my i7-7500U goes flawless.. no fan rumors, ZERO thermal throttling at most importantly max temp (after more than one hour) of heavy stress is ridiculously 93 C!!!!!!! Normal usage never goes above 70.. everyone should repaste its laptop...way too cheap for it can give you!!!
Undervoltage limit is kinda unique for every particular CPU, so you can find it yourself just increase offset until your system becomes unstable.
how did you undervolt your laptop? since i had updated my BIOS to 2.0 , it blocked all method either xtu / throttlestop from UV.
@@ArifMdnor I have simply used Intel(R) Extreme Tuning Utility.. but the thing that bothers me the most, is that every time I reboot my computer I have to set "on" the undervoltage setting...
After a few months, I have stopped undervoltaging my computer... from my expereince, it doesnt make a big different if you do regular stuff such as a few tabs on mozilla, spotify and microsoft team on (unless I play some game which turns on the fan and stabilized temperature b/w 70 adn 80 degrees celcius)
Just did that with 9350. Thank you.
Not particularly computer savvy but know my dell was a bit too warm found the grizzly pads then this video thanks
hello!! which pad you got?
Nice this should work on 9350 as well
Hi. Great tutorial! Im about to do the same as you to my 3 years old 9360.
1. Will mx-4 do any different?
2. I saw u still left with plenty of thermal pad after the application. Can i use the rest and put it on top of the ssd + wlan + ram in small patches? Will it helps? Thank you
Hi, thanks!
1. It will be not noticable if will be at all.
2. About wlan and ram - no sense. About ssd - bad idea since ssd have throttling temperature about 60 degrees and cpu is about 100, literally your cpu will heat your ssd and force it to throttle.
Repasted my 2019 XPS 13 recently, definitely saw improvements. Haven't added thermal pads to the heatpipes though, will need to order those some time.
If you dont have huge loads which takes a lot of time (saying video encoding etc) you can leave it without thermal pads
@@vladimirvoevodich623 I do loads of sustained code compilation, which uses 100% CPU. Over past few weeks the repaste definitely made an improvement already, but still wanna try the thermal pads to see if it makes a difference as well. Even small, it helps
@@Ereinion25 definitely it will help, but you could notice difference only if you still have 99+ Celsius throttling
Great video! Does anyone have any recommendations on what thermal pads to use? I'm prepping to do these steps on my aging XPS 9350 model.
Thanks in advance, appreciate all the help!
Hi. Thermal Grizzly was mentioned before. Not thicker than 1.5mm
Is it worth doing on dell xps 9300? It's warming up nicely.
you use the back lid as heat-sink lol
otherwise, just with changing thermal paste, without te pads. is there any improvement?
You got it. No, greasing down couldn't help :)
Good idea on repasting the cpu, not so much in covering the vents tho.
Is it danger for Dell Ultrabook 13 9360?
(98-99° in the game Cs Go )
Can it burn the video graphics card ?
i stripped one of the screw on the heat sink thing. removed 3 but the 4th is stuck. what do i do???
Worth
hi, is this minus 8 pads? I searched online but it is not self adhesive. Was yours self adhesive or you gotten thermal tapes? Thanks in advanced.
Hi, it's Thermal Grizzly. It's not adhesive nor you need it cause it lies tight between lid and heatpipe.
Is there a reason why you didn't cover the entire surface of the heatpipe with the thermal pad? Also, doesn't the pad melt and seep out through the holes?
There are no difference. It's enough two small pieces to dissipate heat. The point is to "connect" cover and pad in order to increase heatpipe thermal capacity.
Cool video, thanks man
What will those thermal pads do without a heat sink, just curious
Didn't get why you just thinking to run it without heatsink? 🙄
@@vladimirvoevodich623 I was mentioning about those thermal pads you pasted onto the other side of the heat sink where it has no contact with any other metal to dispose off the heat, i am looking to replace stock compound on my XPS, so please let me know if this step is really reduces heat further.
@@AKKSV pads on other side disposes heat due to contact with back lid.
The thermal pads are in contact with the bottom plate. which acts as a heatsink.
My laptop has black paper on the surface of back cover laptop, so I can't using thermal pad, Can I remove that paper??
Is it XPS 9360? Currently I have 9300 and there are black insulation too, but there is no need to make mod like this.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 do you think that Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut cream will damage my copper plate when using it? I think using better thermal cream will have more effect than your way, because my laptop is dell 5510 precision with black insulation on back cover...
can you do anything outside of the case to help cooling further? If you have it "fixed" to a specific place in a setup, where you use the ports for external gpu and monitor? would that be worth while?
Hi, I didn't try to cool it externally, I think you could use some kind of "cooling pad". Feel free to use Dell USB-C dockstation (or some OEM dockstation) to connect external devices (HDMI, DP, LAN, USB). Also Dell Dockstation provides "one-cable" connection and can even charge your laptop, I think it's the best choice. Try to Google it using keyword "Dell 452-BCCQ".
@@vladimirvoevodich623 thanks bro
Hey , i got a question it's works i use a Thermal pad of 0.5 mm ? Or not ? Had to be 1.5mm ?
0.5mm is not enough, there are at least 1mm free space between heatpipe and cover, so I recommend 1.5mm
Hello. I just a warning that my processor fan needed to be replaced. Is that the fan visible in the video?
hey Thomas. Yep you can see it on the right side from 2:50
@@vladimirvoevodich623 thanks. Have you replaced that part? If so where can I purchase the replacement ?
@@thomasd8735 run a test on UEFI/BIOS and if the fan is faulty is should spurt out a QR code leading to Dell's website and the correct replacement part
hi there, can you kindly forward me links to amazon for the thermal pads? thanks!
Hi, sure. www.amazon.com/Thermal-Grizzly-Minus-High-Performance/dp/B00ZJSC3JE
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i did that on 9380 but have same temps as you before mod. didn't check them before so can not compare. does anyone tried that on XPS 9380?
Have you use thermal pads? Or just applied new paste?
just remove pad to test =))
Didn't notice reply. I did use thermal pads and paste. Works ok but still shows sometimes thermal throttling on tests.
I'll leave it as it's ok. Thinking about major upgrade anyway
where did you buy those thermal pad strips from?
On Amazon, try to find it using name mentioned
Awesome experiment!
Thanks mate
Don't forget to undervolt your CPU as well
Do you know if this will net the same gains on the 2019 9380 xps13
Hi, unfortunately still didn't have my hands on this model. Currently I have new Dell XPS 15 (went to bigger screen) and there absolutely the same things, but no sense to do it here cause Dell make a proper cooler here.
What about the 9370? Does the 9370 have the proper cooler on it? I am planning to do the same on my laptop.
@@chrislee6047 Regarding 13 inch model - I think you can try to perform this mod, I pretty doubt Dell made something better there than in 9360. Also good news, soon I will have on hands 9370 and 9380 models and will check all things
I wish this was on the 9365 model :(
can you do it on the 9365model?
If you can I will sub!
It shouldn't vary very much
Hey man, I suppose that you can use the same way, but of course mobo is different and may be you need thermal pad with lesser thickness, The only way to find out is to try it yourself, good luck :)
did this reduce fan noise?
Adam Tak this makes the computer cooler, so it will not need the fans as much, therefore reducing the noise
Yes. Since temperatures grows smoother and overall temps are lower now you need long load to warm-up the case and make fan blows faster.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 is it really necessary for i5 chips which run cooler than i7 ?
@@amaxlite there are no so much difference between them. Both 4/8 and i7 clocks a little bit higher. TDP remains the same.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 did you also undervolt?
Works with XPS 9350 !!!
Yes. 9343, 9350 and 9360 are exactly the same related to their internals. I broke the case a month ago and replaced my 9360 case with another one from 9350.
@@vladimirvoevodich623 it is a statement not a question. :D
@@RubenNuredini just explained your statement :)