My laptop had just returned from maintenance

As said in my last blog, I sent my laptop for a thermal paste replacement a few days ago. Originally I wanted to procrastinate a little more and delay this to the next semester break, but the condition was a little too bad for me to really do it. How bad, you ask? By just using Discord and a web browser, the CPU temperature shot up to 60 degrees Celcius, which was previously only reachable by gaming. I was worried that if I continued to ignore the problem, the laptop might hate me and give me random shutdowns from time to time due to the heat... so off I went.

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I had to leave my laptop at the computer shop for a day for them to clean it up (due to the fact that it is not that easy to disassemble a thinner laptop and clean up the dust that have been accumulated inside the box for two years), and to be frank, it is surprisingly hard to live without my own laptop... there are just a little too many things I use it for. Managed to live on the phone for a day, and now I’m finally back at the laptop writing this post. Gotta love typing on a real physical keyboard, I guess @nickyhavey would agree?

As soon as the guy at the computer shop rang me up I grabbed the car key and rushed to the store to pick it back. Can’t find words to explain the frustration of not having my laptop by my side, but I guess it’s some sort of over-reliance. Bad thing, but it’s really hard to get it treated. I guess you’ll agree, too.

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According to the repairing guy, the thermal paste on my CPU was almost entirely dry when he opened the thing up. Thermal paste in good condition can help with releasing the heat of the chip, while for mine...of course, it did little to no help. Not to mention that there have been so much dust accumulating inside the system that did negative help to heat releasing. I’m not very sure where the dust comes from, but thinking the fact that my dorm is full of dust and I did nothing to cover the keyboard from them, probably that’s why.

He did the thermal paste replacement and internal cleaning for me, and now my laptop is finally functioning at some nice temperature :) Not really the best temperature for me yet (I can still reduce it by a few more degrees by underclocking), but it’s significantly better than what I had in the past.

(This is with Discord, a word processor, a YouTube video playing in the background and three more tabs including Steemit)

Previously I can see a lot of dust from this airhole, but now it’s clean :)

Someone once said that if you treat a computer properly, it can serve you for a very long time, and I hope I did my part - I still need it for years to come. Can’t afford it to hate on me, lol.

I guess that’s all for now, see you next time :D

--Lilacse

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