Surgery Complete - Reapplying thermal paste to my Macbook Pro
=======Surgery Complete - Reapplying thermal paste to my Macbook Pro
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There have been quite a few posts around the net already on how to fix the heat issues on the first few revisions of the MacBook pro. I tried it, and it appears to work!
I followed the: iFixit guide to disassemble my MacBook. The only thing I didnt have to do was remove the harddrive. I then cleaned with Arcticlean 1 and Arcticlean 2 and then applied my Arctic Silver 5 to just the die - like apple should have done. It was really time consuming and you have to be careful… but I think it might be worth it.
First 24 Hours
My MacBook Pro still gets damn hot. I’ve read that the Arctic Silver takes some time to cure. I am booted into windows right now where the MacBook pro gets the hottest. I ran a very repetetive macro in excel that turned the fans on pretty high speed. That made me realize that I’ve never really heard the fans before.
May 21st, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Cool!
I found your site through an entry you posted on http://www.intelmactemp.com, and I would recommend everyone who owns a MacBook or MacBook Pro to do the same.
-ivc
May 31st, 2006 at 6:13 am
Doesn’t opening up the MacBook Pro void your warranty?
May 31st, 2006 at 9:25 am
If you do the surgery correctly, no one would ever know you opened up your macbook pro. It probably does void your warranty, but that would require you to broadcast that you opened up your macbook.