The $20 thermal pad trick I laughed at actually fixed my overheating laptop

Last month I had a Dell Latitude that kept thermal throttling even after cleaning the fan and repasting twice, so a guy in this forum said to slap some cheap thermal pads on the VRM area near the CPU. I thought it was snake oil because the temps looked fine on the sensors, but after 3 days of running it under load, the throttling stopped completely and the case stopped feeling like a skillet. Has anyone else tried this hack on older laptops where the heatsink just doesn't touch everything anymore?

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ruby_patel2712d ago

Honestly doubt it's the pads fixing it. Maybe the extra pressure or you reseating something just happened to work this time.