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> I have a slimbook pro (the model before the silver keyboard) and sadly I am very unhappy with it, I got a fairly maxed out version and it's fans are always on full blast and I have found no way to keep the power management under control except throttling the CPU - so it is constantly overheated, suspend is not working properly and the chassis is not strong enough so the fans stall unless you have it on a flat surface. Note that I have some lenovo computer from work which is configured in the exact same way and there are no overheating or suspend issues.

One of the possible root causes for those symptoms might be dried up (or wrongly applied) cooling paste between the heatsinks and the CPU/GPU.

I highly recommend trying to replace the cooling paste, this may fix all your issues.

I recently did this on my 2 year old Asus laptop and it feels like I just bought a new machine. It went from unusable to I won't have to buy a new laptop for a couple more years. It cost me 10 EUR and maybe half an hour to get it done.

>>bboygr+(OP)
I would recommend a thermal pad as an alternative to paste (I bought this: https://www.innovationcooling.com/products/ic-graphite-therm... ).

You won't ever have an issue with dry paste, and from what I can tell the CPU/GPU only runs a degree or so hotter than when using premium thermal paste.

>>depres+67
Interesting, I’ve always heard that thermal pads are far inferior to paste.

>>sgeren+la
They are, but it's always a trade-off.

Stock paste goes for longevity and cooling, so it's kinda crummy at both.

Thermal pads go for longevity with a sacrifice to cooling.

High performance paste like arctic silver goes for cooling over longevity; but can be re-applied many times as it doesn't damage hardware.

Liquid metal like Thermal Grizzly's: conductonaught, goes for extreme cooling at the expense of hardware. (IE; it will literally eat your computer, slowly, over time).

>>sgeren+la
far inferior is a pretty huge exaggeration, graphite pads are plainly good enough in the vast majority of cases, without all the annoying downsides of paste.

>>bboygr+(OP)
Off topic- but are _the_ BBoy Gravity?

>>davidw+cu
I don't know, so probably not? Tell me more.

>>dijit+ld
> They are, but it's always a trade-off.

According to a Linus techtips video on Youtube the difference is not really measurable. So I kind of tend to think that a high quality thermal pad is just simply superior in every way. The only reason I didn't try it, is because I couldn't find any in stock.

>>bboygr+ZG
LTT noted differences, but yes, they're not large:

https://youtu.be/YpphKzmDiJM?t=420

FWIW Steve Burke did an even more detailed burn down of these pads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niAQs8dZohE

(LTT was later able to get -20C cooling with Liquid Metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdTsra-uLBI )