Laptop Cooling

Hey, I'm replacing the heatsink in this laptop, but for some reason when I removed the old one, the contact points for thermal paste were all different colors and the CPU one looked like a weird texture. Take a look in the picture Anyone know why this is? Do laptops do something special with...

How can I further cool my laptop without sacrificing any performance? I do have a cooling pad overvolted to 12 volts but it still manages to get to around 70-77 degrees Celsius.

Overheating laptop even while using a cooling stand... Arctic MX-4 thermal paste.. and completely cleaned heatsink fins and fans with no dust clogging. My Laptop: Asus GL503GE i5 8300H 4C/8T Nvidia GTX 1050ti I am facing the problem from the past 4-6 months. Earlier it used to run at around...

Hello everyone, First of all, i want to say that this is my first post on Tom's hardware forums, but I'm a long-time lurker and I want to thank you all for the helpful info I've got from here over the years. Introductions aside, please bare with me: A few days ago I have decided to replace my...

I have the above mentioned laptop with an i5-9300h cpu and the GTX1650 Max-Q design gpu both with stock cooling paste. And i would like to keep it as cool as possible. I have been searching and decided that getting the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut or Noctua NT-H2 would be the best for my laptop...

Hi everyone! So here is the deal. My laptop is overheating even after a clean up and fresh thermal paste. So i have an idea. I want to glue a fan to the vent hole from which he is drawing air and hook it up to a USB port via a USB cable. But I know that the 5V from the USB won't be enouth to...

My laptop CPU get in high 80s when gaming for a while, due to the surface it’s on. My glass desk doesn’t allow it to get air very well, if I put it on it’s back and let it get more air from my room, my temps decrease by around 10°C. I will try and get both thermal paste and a cooling pad but for...

What Type of CoolingPad Should I Buy For My Asus Vivobook s15 s530? Since it got heat extension between hinge and display. i want do lil bit gaming. View: https://imgur.com/a/rvRGHsT

I can't afford to upgrade to a new computer right now so I was wondering if I can buy a cooler for my PC that can alleviate my temperature problems. When I play a game, the max temperature rises to around 62-63C. Hard drive temp is around 30C. Video card temp is around 40C. At idle, my pc is...

I am trying to push my FX-8350 to see how far i can get with the stock voltage, last time my PC froze at 4.6ghz so for now the best and most stable frequency seems to be 4.5 ghz, however that's not the issue my problem is i had HW monitor up along with the ASUS SUite temp reader and they are...

Howdy, guys. New to PC building. Is this a decent build for the money (~$1500)? CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4-Core 4.0GHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition RAM: 2x Corsair 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM mobo: Asus Maximus VII Hero case: Corsair Carbide 400R PSU: Corsair RM750 750W SSD: OCZ...