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I have not yet replaced the thermal paste. However, like i said, i use TLP with default settings, on battery profile always enabled. With this, the hdd temp rarely exceeds 50C. Most of the time it stays at around 46C which i think it is fine. Beside this, i have modified some settings in bios...

Thank you for your answer! Yes it is out of warranty. It is more than 10 years old. :) I have put linux on it and it works like a charm. Web browsers are quite slow but the rest is quick. It is just that it gets hot quickly. And i've read that thermal paste should be reapplied once in a couple...

Hello everyone, I have an old laptop (dell vostro a860) and it runs at 47-58c no matter if idle or under load. At 58c fan starts blowing and brings the temperature down to 47c when it stops. When watching a video for instance, cpu is around 40% load and it goes from 47c to 58c in around 1min...

Hi. I have a quite old smartphone from 2016. A HTC Desire 620g. I was happy with it. Worked decent. Last days however, started to have issues with the display. It goes black after couple of minutes. Touchscreen still works but i cant see what im tapping on the screen. I found that by turning...

Ok. That's good to know. Thanks for the fast replies. It's not about space. I was trying to find a way to make use of an unused monitor port. I have a pretty low PSU to my PC and just wanted to use the monitor's psu instead, for different stuff.

Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to add an usb port to a monitor that does not have one by default. I am not interested in any video or audio signals, but power only. So, my monitor only has hdmi, vga and dvi and i would like to use one of those ports (vga preferably) to use it with an...

Hi all. I have a system which looks like this : HP Compaq Elite 8300 CMT (Convertible Minitower) 320 W proprietary power supply Intel i5-3470, 3.2 GHz 16 GB of RAM 500 GB hard drive optical drive I would like to get a GPU for gaming. Something like a gtx 1050 ti or a gtx 1650. Maybe a gtx...