6 years laptop changing the thermal paste

[Joey Perez]

You think it's still safe to change my thermal paste after 6 years?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Yes why wouldn't it be safe? Assuming you can take it apart and put it back together properly, the age of the laptop is not going to make it unsafe to change the paste. Do you need to change it? Is it overheating?

 

[Joey Perez]

Changing the paste does big difference to the laptop? maxing out 94c then throttle.

 

[Dunlop0078]

If its overheating due to dried up paste yes it will make a big difference. If something else is causing your high temps like dust build up, or the cpu is under unnecessary load or both it likely won't do much.

 

[Joey Perez]

thanks probably due to dried up paste is the problem. I vacuum my laptop to reduce the dust even its bad