Clean your laptop heatsink!

[Cooleo]

So my laptop has been overheating when I put it under load for months now, I cleaned out my heatsink and got this out of it:


Problem solved! Im amazed how much has got behind there in a year.

[Conkers]

lol....that's minging! Though not as bad as some of these:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers/

[Mickey]

I purchased some cans of that compressed air. And every week or so i give the fans a quick squirt. whilst turned off and it clears them up

[Cooleo]

Mickey, put wouldn't that blow the dust into the fan?

[Mickey]

Nope it blows it out the the air vents at the side of the lappy