Applied Arctic Silver 5 to Acer nitro 5 AN515-53 temperatures seem higher or unchanged

ShangWang

Hi all,

I recently bought arctic silver 5 and applied it after cleaning off the 1 and a half year old residue thermal paste on my acer nitro 5, it was indeed dried up. The factory paste seemed to also be arctic silver 5 from the looks of it but I'm not sure.

My fans and exhaust are clean and there is plenty of ventilation for the laptop.

I applied what I thought seemed like enough, roughly pea-sized but maybe smaller and put a line of the paste on my GPU.
After testing, the temperatures seemed to go from 40 to 45 degrees Celsius idle on CPU, but it fluctuates at times.

When playing hollow knight I get about the same exact temperatures sitting at 60 degrees Celsius.

Is it normal to have temperature increase when initially applying the paste, might I have put too little on my CPU or does it simply take curing time for it to improve?

If I put too little can I simply add more thermal paste to the already existing one or do I have to start from scratch? I've only used my laptop for about 6 hours from now.

brummyfan2

Hi,
Your temperatures seems fine to me, yes, the paste need some time for settling, so wait for few days and monitor the temperatures, main thing to note while repasting is not to overtighten the heatsink screws, I don't think you need to add more paste, you can not add more paste to existing old paste, if you remove the heatsink again you have to wipe both CPU and heatsink clean and apply fresh paste.