Dell Alienware M15x M17x Video Card Copper Shim Mod
Thermal paste is not included and is required to install the shim kit. You will need to have your own thermal paste.

Dell uses thermal glue/putty to fill a gap between the gpu and heatsink shown in the first picture above. This is a poor quality thermal solution and if you open your card it will leave it unusable.
Because of the gap the thermal putty/glue had filled just thermal paste will not make good solution and over time will cause the gpu to overheat, see pictures above.
Use this shim mod to lower your temps 15%+ and keep gpu failure from happening.The without shim picture above shows the temp with the stock thermal glue, with just thermal paste the temps reach 70-75c
With the mod the card idles at a lower temp, the temp raises slower and the max temp is 10-15% less compared to stock Included

• 2 shim thicknesses, 512mb and 1-2gb cards use different thicknesses
• Material to lap/polish your gpu and heatsink contact
• Online pictured instructions

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