Yeah, this dude I know did it. He said his laptop was going fast and shit.. hold on let me find the shit he wrote out.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fredryk/92916.htmlIt's long so...
QUOTE While playing CSS at 20 fps one day, I lifted up my laptop and took a deep breath. I put my mouth up against the intake fan port on the bottom and blew as hard as I could. I tilted my XPS to the side and did the same to the other intake port on the bottom right. I repeated this two or three times until my head got a little dizzy, then I sat it back down in my lap and looked at the net_graph I had running in-game.
90 fps.
70 fps.
30 fps.
Then back down to 20.
So, it was a problem with my fans. I thought back and realized the one and most simple thing I hadn't thought of trying:
Canned air.
I went to WalMart a few days ago, and paid four or five dollars for a no-name brand can of duster. Up until this point the only thing I'd ever use it for was turning the can upside down and freezing people in the ass with it. Now, on my last leg, I had a use for it. Honestly, I didn't think it was going to work, but that's me; I always expect nothing to work at all.
I got home, fastened the little thin plastic tube to the can, and stuck the end of it through the out-fan port on the very back left of my laptop, turned my XPS up on its side, and sprayed.
Dust shot out of the bottom of my computer and went everywhere. I even coughed a little. There weren't any "chunks" per se, but it was still a very large amount of dust to come out of a laptop I'd only had for four or five months. I kept spraying and spraying until the can froze up in my hand from all of the fast decompression going on inside. I waited for it to thaw (yes, it was that cold) and proceeded to spray through the other vent on the back right side of my computer. Almost the same amount of dust shot out of the bottom.
To sum it up, I used just about half the can of duster on every little port, vent, slot, and fan-hole I could find on my laptop. Turning it back on, I literally held my breath.
Windows XP started up lightning fast. I got a little spark of hope.
Upon loading my desktop and ultimately the program I use to monitor temperature, I noticed it was down in the very low 50's, something I hadn't seen in months.
