Originally Posted by jhan523

Have you cleaned your computer? I actually just cleaned mine today. My house is so dusty but I was kind of surprised to see that the heatsink entry was like 30% blocked with dust. It's only been like 4 months since I last cleaned it out -_- Definitely made a big difference though.

Nope, never did...I have seen videos on youtube about that but I am too scared to open up my own laptop and clean it lol
Also, I kinda don't wanna pay to get it cleaned, I heard it's expensive to do that :/

Originally Posted by jim1

Nope, never did...I have seen videos on youtube about that but I am too scared to open up my own laptop and clean it lol
Also, I kinda don't wanna pay to get it cleaned, I heard it's expensive to do that :/

What type of laptop do you have? Some are designed really well. For my laptop I have a panelled bottom so I just unscrew 2 screws to get to the fan and heat-sink. Then I unscrew the fan and heat-sink and clean them out with compressed air. I just did it today, took me like 5 minutes to clean and put everything back together.

Originally Posted by jhan523

What type of laptop do you have? Some are designed really well. For my laptop I have a panelled bottom so I just unscrew 2 screws to get to the fan and heat-sink. Then I unscrew the fan and heat-sink and clean them out with compressed air. I just did it today, took me like 5 minutes to clean and put everything back together.

I have HP..worst laptop ever!!! I think I have few screws...but I am afraid something wrong might happen during the process :/

Originally Posted by jim1

I have HP..worst laptop ever!!! I think I have few screws...but I am afraid something wrong might happen during the process :/

Lol, atleast it sounds like you can access it easily. HP has pretty terrible designs (or atleast they used to, I haven't really looked at laptops recently) where you had to dismantle like the entire laptop to get to things you wanted to get at.

I don't think you can really screw anything up if it's simple to access it (I'm sure you can find a video on youtube)... plus if your laptop is a couple years old then your thermal paste is probably rock hard too which also contributes to the heat build up.

Originally Posted by jim1

I have HP..worst laptop ever!!! I think I have few screws...but I am afraid something wrong might happen during the process :/

There is that one line of HP laptops that have been know for overheating but either way a cleaning of the heatink/fan will make a huge difference.

If you don't feel comfortable, I am sure there are plenty of people on macinsiders or even in your classes that would do it for ya. It wouldn't take more than 10 mins to do a simple cleaning.