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Pro tip: flipping your laptop upside down for 10 minutes saved my GPU
I noticed my gaming laptop hitting 95C every time I played Elden Ring (even on low settings). After cleaning the fans with compressed air and seeing no improvement, I flipped the whole thing upside down on a book for about 10 minutes before starting a session. It dropped temps by 8C right away, and now I do this every week as a quick reset for the thermal paste to settle back where it belongs. Has anyone else tried this trick with older laptops?
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theawest1mo ago
Whoa, wait. You flip your laptop upside down so the thermal paste "settles back where it belongs"? That's not how thermal paste works. It's not a liquid that just slides around in there. Once it's on, it stays put unless you take the cooler off. I'm honestly shocked you saw a temp drop from that, maybe it was just the fans getting better airflow or something. But flipping a running laptop feels like a gamble I would not take.
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