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Wow. My laptop was acting really crappily, and has been for awhile. Basically whenever I tried to do anything that requires cpu use at all it would slow down a lot and the fan would turn on really high. The heat capped out at 80c (when the processor speed throttling kicks in) and every once in awhile it would cause other problems. So, I'm sitting here this afternoon and all of my programs start crashing repeatedly, and I decided it was time to try to solve this problem.
When I opened up the laptop it was immediately clear what was going on. On my laptop, the CPU is attached via a copper heatpipe to a little tiny radiator next to a blower. The radiator was completely choked up with dust. I'm surprised that the fan even turned at all.
So, I cleaned it out (Cough! Choke!) and started the computer back up. And...wow! It's like having a whole new laptop! Everything is way more responsive, and now when I go to 100% cpu use the fan barely turns on at all, and the temperature never goes above 60c.
Why didn't I do this earlier?
When I opened up the laptop it was immediately clear what was going on. On my laptop, the CPU is attached via a copper heatpipe to a little tiny radiator next to a blower. The radiator was completely choked up with dust. I'm surprised that the fan even turned at all.
So, I cleaned it out (Cough! Choke!) and started the computer back up. And...wow! It's like having a whole new laptop! Everything is way more responsive, and now when I go to 100% cpu use the fan barely turns on at all, and the temperature never goes above 60c.
Why didn't I do this earlier?