I figured it out myself and actually managed to bring down the temps (especially GPU temps) significantly. I have applied 0.5mm thermal pads everywhere except for the switches above the conductors that are labeled with R15, which need 1.0mm pads. I tried 1mm pads everywhere as well but they yielded worse results. With the 0.5mm pads I've been able to bring CPU idle temps down to ~49°C and GPU idle temps down to 39°C from ~50°. Cinebench R23 scores with 11332 points.
Hi, So I just wanted to do a repaste on my XPS 9710 because I felt like the temps should be better. Anyway, after having lifted the vaporchamber (of course, I followed the XPS 9710 service manual) I basically found a mess, two of the thermal pads were detatched.Is there a way to get original thermal pads from Dell or at least the thickness? [IMAGE]
XPS 9710 Repaste - Thermal pads