thermal paste

Hi everyone, I'm kind of in a special situation. I've got a late 2016 MacBook Pro 15" with the most expensive specs (back then) which is still serving me well. However, I've quit my (gamedev-)job recently to pursue creating games on my own. For this, I am going to live off of my savings for at...

Hi All, After experiencing heavy lag and throttling in my MacbookPro (A1398) recently, I had decided to check the fans for dust and thermal paste under heatsink. Attaching my Macbook specs: And so, had successfully cleaned the dust and applied a new thermal paste - Cooler MasterGel Regular...

Dear all, I have been using a Macbook Pro 15" mid-2015 since August 2015. It has top specs like 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Big Sur is the OS. Since I bought it, I have never cleaned the dust inside or renewed its thermal paste. Fanny shows CPU temperature around...

Hi All, I know that this is something that is generally addressed but I wanted to ask about my situation specifically. I have recently upgraded the CPU's in a dual processor Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 to the X5690's. I have used delidded processors for this. It is only my second go at...

I am planning to replace my CPU on my Mac Pro 5,1 and I wonder how much Arctic thermal paste ARCTIC MX-4 2g I should place on my new CPU? I saw some people on videos placing a dot in the centre or a line from side to side,....Any advice what is the best way? And I also wonder when screwing off...

(macbook pro 15 inch, late 2008 2.4 GHz) I reapplied the thermal paste for my macbook pro- have (had?) zero experience with messing around w/ the board so may not have been the best idea. I somehow managed not to brick it and it now runs 20 c cooler- but the back light for the keyboard does not...

I have an 2015 MacBook Air 13 inch (A1466) and I decided to put new thermal paste on my heatsink and CPU. Since I have owned this computer for three years. So I disassembled the computer and I was shocked at the lack of amount of paste and decent coverage of the original paste from Apple. I have...

Hi I'm writing to you using my dear macbook pro mid 2010. I managed to swap the 4 samsung's gb ram to 8gb crucial's one. Then I installed an ssd instead of the old toshiba hdd and now it rocks. Everything works fine, I don't anything heavy so why should I change computer? Anyway I manage to...

Soooo, today I figured I wanted to replace the original, crisp thermal paste on my Early 2015 MacBook Pro 13" Retina. I opened the back case and just started working on it. Except one thing... I forgot to disconnect the battery, but disconnected the keyboard cable (I think LOL). Anyway, applying...

Hello everybody, I have a macbook pro mid 2012 and since 2014 (when I bought it) I never cleaned it up. So now it is heating up pretty good even with light workloads. Than I'm taking it to be cleaned up and the guy said that they replace the thermal paste over the processor also, and I would...