this is what i'm talking about. i see people having huge difference as you report, but i was just not lucky and i don't believe i'm unrealistic. with AS5, as the latest attempt, i still don't get much better results and idle temps are high.
around 47C CPU running on integrated GPU with no display, only finder running. i've 2.3GHz 15". damn !
room temp at 25C
I thought that given they have the same TDP*, they would emit the same amount of heat at all loads and thus have the same temperatures. One would think the 2.3 GHz would run hotter than the 2.0 GHz, except that the former has been binned higher (at a given frequency, stable with a lower voltage) so it's running equally as cool.
Those are "normal" temperatures: whenever an external display is connected, the discrete GPU takes over. This GPU runs very hot, around 50°C idle. Since the CPU and the discrete GPU are in contact with the same heatsink, the CPU warms up to the idle temperature of the dGPU, at least, so about 50-60°C idle.
There may be misinformation and false assumptions but I doubt there's disinformation. What's for sure is the results, and there are a lot of them. They speak for themselves.
i feel like an idiot. i take laptops apart all the time, tried to apply the past 5 times and i cannot get a decent result.
there is time, as now, when the system is idle (besides safari, taping this thing) connected to external monitor and this is the temps and i get. up for all day.
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ps: can you guys who got such a good results comment on spreading vs. grain of rice spread with the heat sink ? what did you do ?
also, what about cure times ? did you get better temps immediately ? AS5 claims 200h cure time, that's what's there now, about 100h since application, no real difference ;-(
