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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried blowing out the fan? After 13 years it might be all gunked up

[–] M137 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I try to keep it clean. I'm pretty sure the fan has been warped, so one of the blades drags against the housing a bit, and I don't have the tools to open it up that much to try to fix it. It only happens at high fan speeds, though, and that doesn't happen often enough to be truly annoying.

[–] dot20 1 points 10 months ago

You really just need, like, a screwdriver set to get into most laptops. Maybe you can search online (e.g. on YouTube) for tutorials for your model. Then you can buy a replacement fan and also replace the thermal paste, because 13-year-old thermal paste surely isn’t doing you any favors in the performance department. Altogether it shouldn’t cost more than €50 (if you’re careful not to break any internals).

BTW, if you want to watch YouTube videos with less resources, you can also copy the video URL into VLC