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Kw1q51lv3r_Vorian

For the unknowing, Blue Ice is a Rubbermaid product that has a liquid or gel that has a high heat capacity inside a rectangular plastic container, usually blue. For the purposes of this thread, I will be referring to that and any similar product as Blue Ice.

I've placed my Macbook Pro on top of three blocks of Blue Ice to keep it cool and prevent GPU and CPU clock throttling, which over the last two years or so has gotten slowly but steadily worse. This laptop is one of those Aluminium Unibody ones, and it theoretically uses the aluminium casing itself as a heatsink for the motherboard, so I am theoretically helping the computer cool itself better. So far I haven't seen one bit of clock speed throttling when playing the likes of Starcraft 2 and Eve Online even after an hour, even though normally throttling starts to impact performance sometimes even 15 minutes after launching a game.

After consulting with a friend, it might seem that the thermal paste between the motherboard and the aluminium case might be drying up and thus not conducting the heat energy as efficiently, thus leading to the steadily worse clock speed throttling I'm normally experiencing. I'd probably use Time Machine to back my system up to an external HDD, open the back panel of this and reapply some more thermal paste and switch out the hard drive for a bigger one, partition that and install Windows with Bootcamp after I've gotten that gorgeous fanned-fret 7-string guitar.

So what do you guys think? Great temporary success?

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Raiyne

I have some Arctic MX-2 btw, can lend it to you if you want to apply on your cpu.

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Kw1q51lv3r_Vorian

I'll also need the cleaner too, though, and I wannna wait till I can get a bigger hard drive, but thanks.

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Raiyne

I just used isopropyl alcohol to clean the surface.

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Kw1q51lv3r_Vorian

and I have no idea where to find that in my house, but heck, I'll go look it up anyway.

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Oisterboy

aka rubbing alcohol. It should be like $1 for a quart of it

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Pok

I thought blue ice was the stuff that fell from damaged planes lavatories.

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Kw1q51lv3r_Vorian

It's also pristine bubble-less iceberg ice.

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