i5-2410m heat problems

[darthdaniel98]

Hey LTT forum goers, recently a Toshiba laptop L475 I think, has been running 60c at idle and 90c under load, it begins to throttle to sub 1mhz ranged and crawls around, I turned off turbo and even forced the cpu to 50% power, but to my surprise even at 1.5mhz it was still 87c, almost no difference. I took it apart cleaned out the dust and the only thing I can think of is the fact that the fan has no direct vent to pull cool air in, the fan blast hot air out like a dryer.

[ForsakenLive]

Have you tried changing the thermal compound?

[darthdaniel98]

I probably need to, the laptop is 4-5 years old.

 

[Matt100HP]

Replace the thermal compound, it's a 2nd generation i5 chip, so it likely has not been changed since 2011; that laptop could well be 5 years old. Also, if the fan is blasting out hot air, that means it's getting air from somewhere to blast out. If you cover a fan's intake side nothing will blow out of the exhaust side. 

[darthdaniel98]

it has an intake but its an indirect one from the other side of the laptop and its blocked by the motherboard about a 1mm gap being able to pull air. I guess I need to get some thermal paste from ye old newegg and replace what's on there.