T60 replacement fan - thermal grease

My T60 fan started whining so IBM sent me a replacement fan and a tube of thermal grease - but the fan already has thermal grease on it.
The grease is actually a 5 x 7 matrix of 35 small dots of thermal grease. Everything I have ever read about applying thermal grease says that it should be applied in a very thin, smooth layer and these thermal grease dots don't seem consistent with that at all.
1. Should I flatten the dots and spread them out thinly? Or does IBM expect us to just install it as is - maybe the pressure applied upon installation is supposed to flatten the grease out appropriately?
2. Should I have some pure alcohol handy to clean off all of the old grease before replacing this fan?
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eetolaa, welcome to the forum,
the fans come with thermal paste already on them, all you need to do is remove the thin clear plastic from the grey thermal pads. The grey pads are thermal plastic and come attached to the fan.
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Quote from: flobelix on 08-January-14, 04:05:30
There could very well be a difference of 2°C if quality paste is used. The factory paste is not too good.
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Jdiablo7 wrote:
Hi!
I have just replaced a new thermal grease in my laptop G62-B21ER to reduce the temperature of my GPU and CPU, and cleaned the radiator from dust. So, that is funny because my laptop didn't switch off before, but after this replacement it has begun! I used good thermal grease and it shouldn't switch off but temperature is about 90 (C) ~ 194 (F) in gaming. There is 3 processors that touch thermal-cooling system and I've put the thermal grease on each proc.
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Turn the notebook off and begin disassembly again.
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