Can't believe this actually worked! My XPS 15 9500 was constantly running with fans on - even on idle. And temps were always around 59 C°. I used a brush and PC duster spray to clean all the dust from the fans and then used alcoholic wipes (from the drugstore!) to clear and renew the thermal paste. I also bought those Blue thermal stickers because I thought you had added them yourself but apparently those come with the laptop already so I just left them untouched. I put the thermal paste in an 'X' shape because I saw somewhere that this gives the best distribution. Now I've turned the laptop back on and so far the fans haven't turned on even once and coretemp is reporting around 41 - 42 C° - that's a huge difference! Thanks
I just repasted my XPS 15, I desided to put thermal pads on top of the heat sink connecting it to the chassis. It makes the backside of the laptop hot under lead, but man this baby has stamina now💪🏼
Thanks man this is great stuff. Very useful. I must say I think you come off as very humble. I would lean into that. People trust earnestness. Good luck on your journey.
Thanks for the tips! I went with the first fix by greatly lowering the power of my laptop as it's way over powered for what I really need it for! My BatteryBar is telling me that I can get 16 hours plus with my current state and usage! That is AWESOME! BTW, I have the Dell XPS 17" (9700) I just got in the mail three days ago! I'm loving it! Where has this been all my life?!?! LMFAO!!!
When I applied the thermal paste I actually spread it across the CPU and GPU with a Q tip and then put the hewtsi k on. I didn't do it like you did. And I also used Coolermaster Thermal Paste... I installed the 970 Evo Plus 1tb today because I was having issues with the stock Toshiba ssd, and there is no difference at all with the Samsung ssd.... 😮
@@GnomezGrave I do appreciate your video, I will do the same soon. Not sure if image link works and also not sure if its a big deal but I assume the pressure of the heatsink might be not ideal : Image on top is before and image on bottom is afterwards imgur.com/a/HKhf5DV
I tried the Intel XTU but the under volt is greyed out on it and I’m not messing around with the Bios. I have now got a Topmate C11 cooler and it’s great. My laptop felt roasting hot before, but now it remains cool 😁.
Good video. But one information is missing. I want to buy some thermal pads. What is the recommended thickness. They seem to have them in different sizes, from 0.5 up to 4.5mm thickness. Or should we recover the ones that came with the laptop? What about the one that is used for the SSD? What thickness?
Yeah, true. I should do it. And anyway, even though my heating got a bit better, there were some issues with some apps draining and I couldn't figure out why. So I reset the Windows and now it's better than ever!
+GnomezGrave Would you recommend these as you did say the airflow seems not enough? www.amazon.com.au/Management-Organizer-Adhesive-Charging-Accessory/dp/B07BQ2MWT3/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=cable+holders&qid=1587423265&sr=8-2
Well, I don't see a big connection between cable management (to a laptop) and the air-flow. You definitely need more space around the laptop, but I don't think cables around it will make a big difference.
Did you check if all BIOS settings are properly set? I would try resetting the BIOS settings. Otherwise, I can't think of any other reason why it does that except something is wrong with the CPU itself.
Yep I updated all drivers, bios etc. Reset bios settings. The only thing that worked was when I used throttle stop program and disabled BD_PROC HOT Then my clock speed was normal. But everytime I turn on laptop from shutdown /close the throttle stop program, it resets itself and gets stuck at 0.78Ghz! Annoying!
Can you try these steps. 1. Shut down 2. unplugg/remove the battery 3. wait for some time, 1 minute in my case 4. reconnect/ reinsert battery 5. start machine again 6. see the cpu running at normal speed again. Ref: superuser.com/questions/1241844/cpu-is-stuck-at-its-minimal-frequency
Yeah I already knew about this method cos I was researching a lot. That’s my Plan of action, but I’m waiting for my iFixit kit to arrive. In the meanwhile wanted to get some technical understanding of why this occured so thought to ask you!
My XPS 9560 is 4 years old. But when I ran Aida, the CPU still operated at 2.5Ghz (max) and temperature reached only 66oC. Should I repaste the thermal? I have Arctic MX-4 on hand, but am afraid that I can make the XPS worse than it is at the moment. Pls advise. Tks.
Well, Dell old ones have poor thermal design. I reapplied thermal paste and it did improve the performance, but not upto the expectations. I'm thinking of moving towards a PC.
The biggest thing you can do is undervolt the Dell using a tool like Throttlestop. Clean the fan and you can repaste if you like. I turn off turbo and undervolt with my 9560 and it helps. The VRMs are the biggest problem.
@@GnomezGrave I don't know.. but everyone suggests to keep laptop temperature in between 70-80 but mine goes 90. 91 and some times even 96.. is that healthy temperature for laptop . ?? Mine is dell precision m3800..
I have the precision 5530 and it s just the same device of xps. Everything is same exept the cpu. Mine one has a zeon processor and I tried every poisbble way to keep it under 80 degrees and no way. if you want booth performans and the no fan noise. İt is imposible. When you disable hyper trheading or turbo boast, it s then becoming a normal laptop can not even play 4k 60hz video without fan noise again. Even there would be lag or freeze on the video when it is fullscreen. So I ask to myself, If I need to make it slower not to make it go extreemly hot, why did not I buy a regular half a price laptop. I know you are telling me that this much amount of problem need formatting and clean fresh installing. but no. Still my device is getting hot like an oven. Somethimes I can not put my hands on it to type something. I also have themal camera pictures. I called the service to solve this thermal issue, nop. They act like they are not facing this problem. But I know all of their unit has the same problem. They have engineering fault on this device. And they are talking about thermal efficiency in their new device advirtisement. Thats why I am posting this same comment to every single dell thermal issue video. I will definitlt not buy dell product anymore. No way. Not to my company anymore.
Totally agree on what you mentioned. These steps are merely to "reduce" the over-heating, but they don't fix the issue. If someone already have this laptop and wants to reduce it, these steps might be helpful. However, for anyone willing to buy a Dell XPS, I would recommend not to because of this.
That's very strange then. Well, I'm not the best one to advise you on these, so better to reach out to the corresponding customer support and ask them.
Hello i want to ask you that when i use msi afterburner my cpu temp was arount 70 t 80 degrree cel sis and and my cpu 65 to 75degree and my cpu usage was like 50 to 70 percent and gpu usage was 40 to 80 percent gpu usage was flickring very much so all these things are ok while playing gta v i am only getting 30 fps?
@@GnomezGrave gta 5 can be played in 60fps because in youtube one has same specs and he is getting 50 to 60 fps in gta 5 his cpu is 90 to 95percent and gpu is also 99 percent usage i think you dont know about these periferals
I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip. I removed the fans because I wanted to clean them as well. Can you explain what can I improve in the repasting?
@@GnomezGrave you are so polite about my bad language. Your repasting is actually fine as long as you put enough and drop the heat sink straight. The only issue I saw is you touching the RAM heat-pad with bare fingers instead of the glove, the oil from the skin can reduce the heat transfer but RAM is not that demanding on heat. XPS15 7590 with highend specs has really good VRM cooling integrated on the heat sink, but the lower and mid-end do not have it. So, overall when you run both CPU and GPU hard at the same time, it will still throttle down from VRM/CMOS chip high temperature.
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I will keep this in mind for the next time. I probably have to do it again it seems anyway, because sometimes it becomes like a jet engine. Overall, I find the thermal management in Dell is not good either. Will probably move out of it anyway.
