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I checked online and no nice how-tos for my toshiba L305-S5917.
Gremlin says they can do it for a bunch of $s!! That would be to
disassemble it, clean it out, replace thermal goop and reassemble.
Is this something anyone could assist with at a meeting? Asking too
much? If so I'd pay a bit for help. I could meet someone at SFBC
privately too.<br>
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Many thanks,<br>
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Brian<br>
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On 05/30/2012 03:37 PM, Sam Noble wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> I guess I'm just asking too much from my 2.8 Ghz Celeron CPU then. Or is
FF really such a hog?
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Well firefox is a resource hog, but since this is a heat problem. You
might see a big improvement with some hardware maintenance.
See if you can pull the machine apart and clean things up a bit. If a
fan needs replacing that's probably the main problem, if not, then
dusting it out may help a bit.
But a bigger bang might be replacing the thermal compound on the CPU's
heatsink.
Scott G has mentioned doing this several times on the giant Asus laptop
with pretty significant results. He's using artic silver, just like we
used to use for overclocking pentium3 era celerons :)
Alternatively it might be interesting to just nice down the firefox
binary and see if that buys you anything.
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