January 2012

SOLVED: 30C temperature drop and great speed boost on Macbook Pro, after reapplying thermal paste!

Filed under: Miscellaneous
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Like many other owners of a Macbook Pro laptop, I have also been struggling for a while with excessive heat issues on mine (a mid-2010 15" i5); not only was the laptop usually so hot that I almost couldn't touch it, but its performance was also badly affected due to the CPU throttling that the OS operates so to prevent damage from heat. Eventually, I decided to reapply the thermal paste to both the CPU and the GPU, with amazing results.

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