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April 21st, 2022 11:00
Best thermal paste for Dell XPS 15 9550?
What thermal paste has shown best results for your XPS laptop?
Or anything I can do to speed up my XPS, besides cleaning out dust, and applying thermal paste?
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My 2017 Dell XPS 15 9550 was extremely fast, but has significantly slowed down to a crawl sometimes, very choppy and laggy.
I can't afford a new laptop, and a friend said to clean out the fans from dust, and also to apply thermal paste to the CPU.
I cleaned the dust from the 2 fans / vents / inside, and it doesn't sound like a vacuum cleaner anymore (fans were running full blast all the time), but it still runs slow, and at idle with only my browser open, it's still running hot (55C-70C).
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ejn63
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April 21st, 2022 11:00
You can either replace the thermal pads with new ones, or use any good-quality non-conductive thermal paste (i.e., NOT Liquid Metal or similar) you wish.