Recent content by Avdal

Repasted it this afternoon, made a huge difference. The fan still needs to be replaced but I had to order a replacement from China and the shipping ETA is mid April. Oh well, seems to be a lot better now. Made around a 15C degree difference so I'm pretty pleased, i should have done this a long...

Really? I remember being told in class to use them because they're lint free. Maybe a microfiber cloth would be better? Granted my IT days were (cough cough) a few years ago so I could have easily forgotten the details thanks again!

I bet it needs to be repasted. Probably overdue anyhow for a computer this old. I dusted inside using either alcohol dampened Q tips or coffee filters. For the fan, I kind of cleaned the bits I could get at then used compressed air. The vents had a mesh on them but I figured it was all just...

I have a 10y/o Lenovo W530 that I'm trying to run Blender on. It was struggling a good bit so I decided to take it apart and clean out the fan. I'm pretty sure this was the 1st time I've ever done this with this particular machine. I've got a decent amount of experience with laptop...