{"id":139,"date":"2006-09-10T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/10\/clean-out-your-laptops-heatsinkfan\/"},"modified":"2006-09-10T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T15:43:00","slug":"clean-out-your-laptops-heatsinkfan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/10\/clean-out-your-laptops-heatsinkfan\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean out your laptop&#8217;s heatsink\/fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My laptop, a three-year old Dell Inspiron 5100, was recently suffering from some heat-related issues that manifested themselves in slowdowns and sometimes shutdowns.  You see, the CPU in this laptop is an Intel <em>desktop<\/em> 2.8 GHz P4 &#8211; one of the truly hot-running CPUs, made before Intel decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/mobile\/showdoc.aspx?i=2663\">clock speed wasn&#8217;t everything<\/a> under the sun, and thus is probably not the best part to include in a laptop.  When I first purchased the laptop, it was able to run CPU-intensive apps well, though it did occassionally overheat.  However, after three years of use, it would routinely overheat to the point that it would always throttle itself to a lower speed, resulting in my system becoming very slow &#8211; things like browsing the Internet or trying to watch video on YouTube just wouldn&#8217;t work very well.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to take a look at the heatsink\/fan area &#8211; it didn&#8217;t <em>look<\/em> like it had a lot of dust in it, but then again, I had been lazy.  Not any more &#8211; I took a can of compressed air and aimed straight at it.  Immediately, a huge puff of extremely fine dust spurted out and I had to cover my face.  I then proceeded to spray out the rest of the dust until no more was seen.  Now, the laptop runs like it was brand new.  If you have a laptop that&#8217;s getting very hot, invest in a can of compressed air, but make sure you&#8217;re in an area that you feel comfortable scattering with very fine dust particles. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My laptop, a three-year old Dell Inspiron 5100, was recently suffering from some heat-related issues that manifested themselves in slowdowns and sometimes shutdowns. You see, the CPU in this laptop is an Intel desktop 2.8 GHz P4 &#8211; one of the truly hot-running CPUs, made before Intel decided that clock speed wasn&#8217;t everything under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,9,100,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}