Jessie Kirk • 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇬🇱 🇵🇸 🇺🇦Mar 16

You may recall I'm having overheating problems with my HP Pavillion 15-N laptop. When you use tne GPU, the APU overheats after about 2 minutes.

Our bodge to Kapton tape and repaste the heat sync assembly worked for a day, then failed.

We've added thick heat transfer pads to the heat sync assembly and bent the copper shim back into shape, and added a transfer pad above the APU, as the paste was basically gone.

Now we overheat after 6 minutes, 8 minutes with a Klim extractor fan.

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Show threadKevin Karhan 
@thejessiekirk apparently #ConsumerHardware is now absolute garbage...
Mar 20 at 11:38amWeb
Show threadJessie Kirk • 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇬🇱 🇵🇸 🇺🇦6d ago

@kkarhan Oh no, this baby is 10 years old. She was donated to me by a very sweet person and before that travelled around the world. She was left out in a sudden *sandstorm* and was just fine afterwards.

I've been restoring/upgrading her, it's only after I replaced the mobo with a much more powerful one that this has happenend.

Show threadKevin Karhan 6d ago
@thejessiekirk okay, so not hp's fault that you went beyond spec when the thermal design of the chassis had been accounted for...
Show threadJessie Kirk • 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇬🇱 🇵🇸 🇺🇦6d ago
@kkarhan Kind of is, it's a board sold for this laptop.