Is upgrading an old laptop's fan possible?
Edit: before I signed up, I wrote the rest of the question but it seems to have disappeared. In any case...
I have a six year old Dell Inspiron 1525, which I plan on taking with me to college when I start this fall.
I only use it for the light stuff - office, browsing, some multimedia. However, even with that (it's got Win 7), it runs a little slow and it gets really hot really quickly - so hot, it smells like something's actually burning. The palm rest gets too hot to even touch sometimes.
So I figured I'd upgrade it a little. I got an SSD (which I figured, despite being expensive, it's an investment) and I even snagged a T8300 processor (the highest I can upgrade to) for £21. It's got 2GB of ram which I reckon I'm alright with - it'd be a waste of money to upgrade to 4 anyway.
It's just the fan that's an issue for me right now. I've got a laptop cooler, but it's not always the most practical solution.
As such, I was wondering if it's possible to maybe upgrade to a better fan? Or liquid cooling perhaps? (is that possible?)
I'm really sorry, I'm not much of a techie and I know next to nothing about this sort of thing - I just Google and read a lot of articles and stuff, but this was one issue which I couldn't find a solution to.
Thank you!
PS: I know it doesn't seem sensible to upgrade this old thing, but it's more out of sentiment than anything. The laptop was a present (my first computer) from my grandma and she passed away a few months back. I wouldn't even be in college if it wasn't for her, so I just wanted this to be the computer that gets me through the next five years.
Second edit: I should also add that I've cleaned it out and reapplied thermal paste. It probably helped a little bit, but not much.
Thank you!
Edit: before I signed up, I wrote the rest of the question but it seems to have disappeared. In any case...
I have a six year old Dell Inspiron 1525, which I plan on taking with me to college when I start this fall.
I only use it for the light stuff - office, browsing, some multimedia. However, even with that (it's got Win 7), it runs a little slow and it gets really hot really quickly - so hot, it smells like something's actually burning. The palm rest gets too hot to even touch sometimes.
So I figured I'd upgrade it a little. I got an SSD (which I figured, despite being expensive, it's an investment) and I even snagged a T8300 processor (the highest I can upgrade to) for £21. It's got 2GB of ram which I reckon I'm alright with - it'd be a waste of money to upgrade to 4 anyway.
It's just the fan that's an issue for me right now. I've got a laptop cooler, but it's not always the most practical solution.
As such, I was wondering if it's possible to maybe upgrade to a better fan? Or liquid cooling perhaps? (is that possible?)
I'm really sorry, I'm not much of a techie and I know next to nothing about this sort of thing - I just Google and read a lot of articles and stuff, but this was one issue which I couldn't find a solution to.
Thank you!
PS: I know it doesn't seem sensible to upgrade this old thing, but it's more out of sentiment than anything. The laptop was a present (my first computer) from my grandma and she passed away a few months back. I wouldn't even be in college if it wasn't for her, so I just wanted this to be the computer that gets me through the next five years.
Second edit: I should also add that I've cleaned it out and reapplied thermal paste. It probably helped a little bit, but not much.
Thank you!