Repasting - do I dare it?
I am very disappointed with the general high temperatures and the thermal throttling when gaming (World of Warcraft in MacOS). It seems to be common knowledge, that repasting a Macbook, will result in a major decrase in both idle temperatures and during load.
But, I don’t know if I dare do it. It is an expensive piece of hardware, and the fear of breaking something lurks in back of my mind.
Does anyone have any on hand experience with this - and can share some experience with it? I am well versed in hardware, and I have a steady hand - so I do think that I would be able to do it with a youtube video guiding me through.
Which tools would be recommended to order from iFixit to be able to complete this procedure the safest way possible?
crwdns2934109:0crwdne2934109:0
crwdns2944067:03crwdne2944067:0
A new system shouldn't need fresh paste! While I'll agree Apple is not using the best paste its good enough! The real issue is the systems cooling is not large enough for these hot Intel chips. To add to it your using Windows which doesn't interface with the Mac systems thermal sensors and SMC services very well.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Dan crwdne2934271:0
I literally write that I'm playing in MacOS.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 David Bruun crwdne2934271:0
@davidbruun - Sorry I'm not a serious gamer, I only played WoW on a Windows system years ago. Maybe you need to poke around the gaming blogs to see what they say running the macOS version.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Dan crwdne2934271:0