Does it make sense to replace the thermal paste on an unused laptop from 2017?
The laptop was bought new and not used before, according to the BIOS the laptop is from April 2017.
The temperatures at Cities: Skylines were around 90 degrees Celsius for the CPU and around 85 Graf Celsius for the GPU.
You can do what you can see. Most of the time, the cooling solutions are so undersized that this is unfortunately normal.
Probably brings little, laptops are getting warm. That's why a real PC is the better solution for gaming.
I have a real PC, but you can't take it with you everywhere. What I mean I already have the laptop.
These temperatures are not uncommon for simple laptops, the cooling is simply not designed for high loads and the small housing makes it even more difficult.
So that something can be handled better there are cooler stations for laptops, if you would like to gamble with the laptop it would be advisable to use such a station as they have a positive influence on the longevity of the hardware.
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You can replace the thermal paste, but I have my doubts that you will notice a noticeable difference in temperature. Such a station will help you significantly more and the prices for it are also manageable.
90 ° C is quite high, but not unusual. Many notebooks get so hot under load and then clock themselves down, the manufacturers are happy to keep that a secret.
Exchange thermal paste… Nobody can tell you for sure whether it is worth it.
If you dare to open your notebook, completely remove the entire cooling construction (and depending on the model also the mainboard), then check the condition of the WP. But you should know: Especially thin models have to be completely disassembled and that requires tact.
I don't know whether a better fresh thermal paste will have a noticeable advantage, but it should be measurable, because people like to save.
Liquid metal would be even better, so you can get a significant improvement, but then you should carefully seal all the electronics, then liquid metal conducts! It is also a stupid idea if the cooler is aluminum, because parts of the liquid metal decompose aluminum, the copper one makes it look ugly at some point, but it still holds everything.
Certainly not liquid metal, but it is not a "slim" laptop.
The topic belongs here for completeness, so you can get the most out of it.
There are still differences in the thermal pastes, but they are far lower than between the best thermal paste and liquid metal.
