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 posted some pictures that I took and the first one is when I took the heatsink off. The second picture is of my redo job. Yes I did clean it up before I put it on so only thermal paste would be where it needed to be.
I am assuming the larger chip is the CPU naturally.
So, my question is what is the smaller chip that is covered by the heatsink and I'm assuming needed paste but didn't have any. I've searched other threads and haven't found any technical question like this covered. I haven't been able to find any information on google either, at least none that helpful.
I'm grateful for any enlightenment on this any one can give.
Thank you,
Justin
I am assuming the larger chip is the CPU naturally.
So, my question is what is the smaller chip that is covered by the heatsink and I'm assuming needed paste but didn't have any. I've searched other threads and haven't found any technical question like this covered. I haven't been able to find any information on google either, at least none that helpful.
I'm grateful for any enlightenment on this any one can give.
Thank you,
Justin