For no less that 9 months, my Hp Dv6 laptop was overheating to a point where I can’t touch the mouse pad anymore or even put my hands near the keyboard. I sent it to the customer service for repair but their report after a month about the overheating problem was that : “I have 4 operating systems installed on my PC, therefore I have to install just one and everything will work normally”… Jerks!!!
Anyways, I posted on forums, did everything possible for a solution but no hope, till the last week where someone replied my post suggesting to change the thermal compound of my CPU.
I searched the web a little and finally I chose the ArcticSilver 5 from Surcouf store for 7€ (3.5gr). When I disassembled the CPU and the GPU also, I found that the old thermal grease was very dry and especially it got away from the center of the CPU.
I installed the new thermal compound by looking at some videos and the Arctic guides, and now my laptop is working pretty amazing, no serious overheating and the temperature of the CPU is mainly at regular levels.
So if your laptop/PC is having some overheating problems, make sure to clean the air fans and apply new thermal compound to the CPU.
