WOW a re-paste of my secondary laptop dropped the temp by 28 degrees c plus less fan noise

[Cloveh]

So I recently bought an Alienware m14x for 40 USD off of some guy in my area. It wasn't performing great and the temps were mad (99 degrees on the GPU (GT 555m after around 45 seconds of heaven bench). I bought a new CPU (it had an i5 2430m upgraded it to 2630QM) and put in 8gb of ram from the previous 4, anyway, because I pulled off the heatsink I had to re-paste the GPU, and when I reassembled it and started running heaven, the GPU temp stayed at a solid 71 degrees. I am seriously impressed now at artic silver 5 lol. The old thermal paste was rock hard. Interesting to think the laptop is only 5 about years old. 

[aisle9]

The things you can accomplish by blasting pet hair out of the heatsink and changing out the paste on an old laptop never cease to amaze me.