{"id":767,"date":"2020-01-30T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handheld.computer\/?p=767"},"modified":"2020-02-01T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:36:12","slug":"the-effect-of-thermal-paste-on-micropc-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"The effect of thermal paste on MicroPC performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The screws on the inside portion of my MicroPC hinge come loose, therefore I had to disassemble the whole unit (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5-JiMPbkXU\">Repairing screen flop on the GPD MicroPC<\/a>).<br \/>\nDuring this process I also replaced the thermal paste with Arctic Cooling MX-4 2019. I was quite surprised with the result. The thermal paste does affect the performance of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the comparison (left: the original paste, right: the new paste):<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Benchmark-results-before-after.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-jO1ZQVtR\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Benchmark-results-before-after.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the comparision of Windows 10 (left) and Gentoo Linux (right) with the new thermal paste:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Benchmark-results-win-lin.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-jO1ZQVtR\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Benchmark-results-win-lin.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BTW, the result on the right is better that all other <a href=\"https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/search?page=1&amp;q=GPD+MicroPC+\">GPD MicroPC benchmark results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"766\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicmasonry-gallery rl-hover-effect-1 rl-hover-icon-2\" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gutter-sizer\"><\/div><div class=\"rl-grid-sizer\"><\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item rl-gallery-item-width-4\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_191410-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_191410-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_191058-2-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_191058-2-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_193740-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_193740-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_193618-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200116_193618-600x800.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benchmark results for Windows with the original thermal paste:  <a href=\"https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/61413\">https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/61413<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Benchmark results for Windows with the new thermal paste: <a href=\"https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/1105142\">https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/1105142<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Benchmark results for Linux with the new thermal paste: <a href=\"https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/1105057\">https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/1105057<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The screws on the inside portion of my MicroPC hinge come loose, therefore I had to disassemble the whole unit (see Repairing screen flop on the GPD MicroPC). During this process I also replaced the thermal paste with Arctic Cooling MX-4 2019. I was quite surprised with the result. The thermal paste does affect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/?p=767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The effect of thermal paste on MicroPC performance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,187,186],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gpd","tag-maintenance","tag-micorpc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}