Thermal paste instead of thermal putty/pads

[hermesa]

So guys ,long story short I was repasting my laptop thermal paste on my ASUS TUF A15 FA507NVR and I didn't knew the mofsets and chokes and vrms use thermal putty(it came factory with putty not with pads) and I applied MX-6 thermal paste instead.Temperatures for gpu and cpu dropped down but I can't track VRM temps neither mofsets temps.There are no artifacting,shutdowns or smh like that but....Am I cooked ?

 

[ShrimpBrime]

What monitoring software?? Try HWInfo64 sensors only and see if you have a VR temp reading.

As a side note, most VRMs are safe past 100c. But laptops may have that setting lower to throttle earlier such as 80c.

 

[hermesa]

What monitoring software?? Try HWInfo64 sensors only and see if you have a VR temp reading.

As a side note, most VRMs are safe past 100c. But laptops may have that setting lower to throttle earlier such as 80c.

Hwinfo doesn't show any vrm on laptops I think.I tried and there are none.

 

[ty_ger]

I don't think paste is a safe solution. If it were, the manufacturer who put paste on the core wouldn't waste money on obtaining the putty as an additional supply chain item to add to the bill of materials, and would have instead used paste on the VRM as well.

 

[hermesa]

I don't think paste is a safe solution. If it were, the manufacturer who put paste on the core wouldn't waste money on obtaining the putty as an additional supply chain item to add to the bill of materials, and would have instead used paste on the VRM as well.

I ordered upsiren u6 pro(10g) for the vrams and mofsets , hope it works.I was thinking between this one and ThermalGrizzly Putty Advanced (30g) ,but since I didn't found any info about the M/kw for TG i went with upsiren u6

I don't think paste is a safe solution. If it were, the manufacturer who put paste on the core wouldn't waste money on obtaining the putty as an additional supply chain item to add to the bill of materials, and would have instead used paste on the VRM as well.

The interesting thing is that the factory substance wasn't exactly like a putty but it was more like sillicone liquid.I removed heatsink without the laptop to been ON for 10+ hours at a 20C degree room temperature and it was liquid and sillicone like substance with white-blue-cyan blue color.I am thinking to put now Upsiren U6 Pro but its too thick , am I in the right way ?

 

[ty_ger]

I don't know your laptop. I assumed it was putty because that's what you said. If it did have paste, then I would use paste.

 

[mclaren85]

I don't think paste is a safe solution. If it were, the manufacturer who put paste on the core wouldn't waste money on obtaining the putty as an additional supply chain item to add to the bill of materials, and would have instead used paste on the VRM as well.

It's cheaper

 

[hermesa]

I don't know your laptop. I assumed it was putty because that's what you said. If it did have paste, then I would use paste.

No , I putted paste there where it should have been putty or grease or smh .Actually the factory substance wasn't thermal paste or putty but some white-blue sillicone like liquid.I can't identify what it was - it's on the picture I uploaded on the post.You can see the picture VRAMs and chokes and mofsets - this is how it came from factory and I don't know what it is but I removed it and replaced with thermal paste (MX-6). I wonder if I should put thermal putty there and if its safe because many people claim thermal paste is def not for vrams and chokes and mofsets