Thermal Restore · from £89
Hotter, louder, slower than it used to be.
Most high-end laptops leave the factory thermally and power-limited. Paste dries, pads compress, heatsinks clog. I measure, then remove the physical limits.
What’s included
- Full internal clean
- Cooling-system inspection
- Paste replacement (Kryonaut / NT-H2 class)
- Fehonda putty where pads have failed or contact is poor
- Fan curve once the hardware can cool without screaming
- Before/after temperature logging
- Sustained load test — hours, not a 30-second burst
Replacement of stock paste with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut or Noctua NT-H2 class compound. Degraded pads get Fehonda thermal putty where contact is the actual limit. Logging of package temperature, hotspot, power-limit throttling and clocks under the same sustained load before and after.
Liquid metal and delidding are not standard services. The gain can be real; so are the risks. Those jobs are in-person only, and only if you fully understand the downsides.
Extra copper and Fehonda putty — added so CPU and GPU hold a maxed gaming session for hours without throttling. Quoted when the stock cooling path isn’t enough. Not every Thermal Restore.
On laptops this is usually the highest-ROI work — not exotic memory timing. If a paste-and-clean is all the machine needs, I will say so rather than selling copper or a larger package.