Laptop and Liquid Metal + Thermal Pad

[Googlrman123]

I have an Asus UX31A ultrabook that's been having some real thermal issues with the temps rising all the way up to 90C with basic tasks such as watching youtube and working on MATLAB. I decided to take apart the laptop and change the thermal paste only to find both a paste and a thermal pad. The pad was in good shape so I didn't change it out and instead only changed the paste. After a successful boot and a week later, the temps are still reaching max temp according to RealTemp.

I'm now deciding whether or not to apply liquid metal. The only question(s) I have is, what to do I need to do with the thermal pad? Should the liquid metal and thermal pad work fine together, or does the thermal pad need to go?

It seems to be a generic thermal pad and I used generic thermal paste. The fans are clean and the laptop was recently formatted with no bloatware/extra ram hording crap.

Here are some images...
https://puu.sh/BwMOP/79acdcd597.png
https://puu.sh/BwMQl/c324a8a7e9.png

Images are not mine because I don't have the laptop with me currently while posting this.

 

[schaft]

US$6 deepcool Z5 thermal paste should be enough. Better thermal paste than Z5 will not miraculously reduce 20c temp.
Just make sure all the air holes were cleaned. If it clogged with dust, no matter what thermal paste will be rendered useless.

 

[Googlrman123]

US$6 deepcool Z5 thermal paste should be enough. Better thermal paste than Z5 will not miraculously reduce 20c temp.
Just make sure all the air holes were cleaned. If it clogged with dust, no matter what thermal paste will be rendered useless.

All the vents are properly maintained and cleaned. The reapplied paste was also the perfect amount. Thanks for your input tho, I am looking for a better thermal paste. The only reason I'm deciding to go with liquid metal is because it's very high performance considering how much of a temp drop it will give. My laptop fans will be quiet and my CPU won't throttle as much.

 

[TJ Hooker]

How long have you had it? Did the temperatures used to be significantly better?

 

[Googlrman123]

@TJ Hooker, the laptop used to have much lower temps. My laptop is roughly 4 years old.

 

[RememberThe5th]

I could suggest sanding down the heatsink a bit with 1200 grid sandpaper.
I used grinder and 20 to sand down my gtx 470s IHS and heatsink, under full load (N470 MSI) 75% 90*C while its 30*C air temp undervolted to 975mV.
This is if you wanna xD.

 

[Googlrman123]

I could suggest sanding down the heatsink a bit with 1200 grid sandpaper.
I used grinder and 20 to sand down my gtx 470s IHS and heatsink, under full load (N470 MSI) 75% 90*C while its 30*C air temp undervolted to 975mV.
This is if you wanna xD.

I'd rather not tbh.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well i did that to my Q6600, belive it or not, the ihs is not totally flat, its a bit round...