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Thanks, definitely will check that out.

The fan is blowing, but not very much. I cleaned the fan with a cotton tip dipped in isopropanol when putting new paste on.

Hello, I applied thermal paste today. When I removed the heat sink it was a sponge-like square on the sink where the CPU connects (see picture). I removed this before applying paste. Now my laptop is even hotter, 70 degrees Celsius when idle , 80-85 when browsing the web. The GPU seems to be...

It's on a flat surface, I tried raising it a bit, but the temp is mostly the same. I'll get some thermal paste soon.

My laptop is hot, SpeedFan reads about 55 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) when idle, and sometimes it can come up to over 90 Celsius (194 Fahrenheit) when playing video. The temperature in the room is about 25 Celsius. Usually I get "colored" squares on the screen usually when the temperature is about...