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With that laptop now being 8 coming up on 9 years old, I wouldn’t be surprised if its thermal paste has dried out, which means that heat isn’t being transferred away from the CPU into the heatsink as effectively, resulting in the fan running harder. If you want to keep it going a while longer it might be worth picking up a tube of Arctic MX-4 and replacing the stock paste, cleaning out any accumulated dust in the process.


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