So I had the classic video shutting off again, and reflowed the nvidia chip. It is sitting around 68C idle, and I wasn't going to attempt more if this is already a bad temp. This is the nvidia 6150 Go, I was just wondering if this is hot or not, and if so what can I do about the terrible "thermal pad" that they place between the IGP and the the heatsink. Its hard to describe its like thermal but its rubbery and apparently conducts heat well enough which I think if I replaced with a copper shim or something it would cool better. Thoughts on this?
DV6000 temp issue
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I don't know what replacing that rubbery thing with copper would do but that's really interesting that you thought of replacing it. I have the same thing in between my nvidia card and the heatsink as well on my laptop (I know because I just disassembled it and I think I broke the screen are smiley's clickable links? 
). But yeah I honestly have no idea if that'll help your computer by leeps and bounds or it will fry the chip, but if you do try it definitely let me know how it went, I'm curious 
.. Curious to know lol didn't say that before and it was bothering me, so that's why this post is edited. And for anybody that didn't try it out, yes smiley's are clickable links! 
). But yeah I honestly have no idea if that'll help your computer by leeps and bounds or it will fry the chip, but if you do try it definitely let me know how it went, I'm curious .. Curious to know lol didn't say that before and it was bothering me, so that's why this post is edited. And for anybody that didn't try it out, yes smiley's are clickable links! 
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I don't know what replacing that rubbery thing with copper would do but that's really interesting that you thought of replacing it. I have the same thing in between my nvidia card and the heatsink as well on my laptop (I know because I just disassembled it and I think I broke the screen are smiley's clickable links?
I don't think that it will hurt, I know that there are several services that are online that will do this. I am about to take it apart AGAIN to reseat the copper chip because the metal was only on about 70% of the chip and I could probably cool it even more. But I seen a drop from 66 - 68C idle, down to 62 - 63 and I hope that if this fully covers it the temps will go down even more.