thanks!

Mine feels like it will rip the CPU off if I attempt to lift it carefully (more like a pull) ?

Apparently in your laptop thermal grease dried out and glued the heatsink to the CPU.
I know, sometimes it fills like you are going to rip the CPU off the socket and very often it comes out attached to the heat sink.

Let’s say you removed the heat sink and the CPU came out attached to it. What should you do?
1. Very carefully separate the CPU from the heat sink with a flat head screwdriver.
2. Open the CPU socket by turning the screw-lock into the “Open” position.
3. Insert the CPU into the socket. Make sure the orientation is correct. Lock the socket.
4. Now, when the CPU is installed back into the socket and secured, you can clean old thermal grease with alcohol.

I have an XPS 13, here is a picture of both my GPU and CPU.

Can you tell me if Arctic Silver 5 would be suitable, if not then what type of thermal pad should I use?

I’m not sure what XPS 13 is. Are you sure the model number is correct? Is is XPS M1330?
Take a look at this picture of the heat sink assembly.

Do you see blue thermal pads for the GPU chip? That’s what I’m talking about. I would use thermal pad instead of the grease. I think using thermal grease on the CPU is OK.
I don’t know where to buy thermal pads separately, but you can buy a new heat sink with thermal pads here. Contact the seller and make sure the heat sink comes with thermal pads.

Can you tell me if Arctic Silver 5 would be suitable, if not then what type of thermal pad should I use? are there any substitutes that can be used?

Is arctic silver 5 ok for the NVIDIA chip. Do you have any photos on how it should be applied to the GPU?

Maybe you should use thermal pad instead of Arctic Silver. What is your laptop brand and model?

Thanks for your guide. This is what I am using currently. I accidently removed the grease off my graphics card (NVIDIA) by mistake while cleaning the surface. I tried to apply Arctic Silver 5 on the graphics card chip like many youtube video’s suggested but my temperatures have risen really badly from around 50 degrees to 71-80. Sometimes my laptop even shuts down. I applied a little arctic silver and made it thinner and applied it on the chip surface. My 3dmarks scores have also gone down by 1300 so obviously I did something wrong.

Do you have any advice? Is arctic silver 5 ok for the NVIDIA chip. Do you have any photos on how it should be applied to the GPU? Thanks!

I hoping that the original article writer (Laptop Tech) will see this. I was wondering what exactly is the name of that thick gray thermal grease that you used in this article because I need it for my own laptop. It looks a lot like the original thermal grease in my laptop before I cleaned it out and the new one I put it is hardly working.

Are you asking about gray CPU grease? I think you can use this one: X-23-7762-01 (google it). This it Toshiba grease, very similar to grease in the picture.