More thermal grease please nurse....

A while ago I posted about my Dell 5150 overheating. Well all the things I tried have helped a bit, but not really sorted the problem so in desperation I called Dell support (when all else fails etc. etc.)

They suggested putting the latest bios on (A38), cleaning the heatsink with compressed air and making sure it was seated right, nothing I had not read in newsgroups. However, this got me thinking, when the motherboard had been swapped under warrantee, had the engineer put more thermal grease on the CPU?

So I put the BIOS update on as I know this has a different thermal map (when the fans switch on to the one I had). The air blast did not seem to clean out much dirt, but I did squeeze a good dollop of grease between the CPU and heatsink and reassembled the system.

Well it has been running a day and I would say I am 10DegC cooler.

So the moral of the story, chat to someone new it might give you an idea