A while ago my parents' laptop started to thermal shutdown after a bit of use, and I had disassembled the laptop and cleaned the heatsink fins, but while trying to clean the paste from the CPU, I got some stuck between the legs of a capacitor array. I'll keep it short to say that I was unsuccessful in some way to remove it and ordered a replacement CPU. (Eventually some part of the mobo died which prevented the laptop from passing post.)
Anyway, besides learning from that to start using cotton swabs to clean laptop cpus, I decided to apply new paste to Triela since she had her original paste. I found that the motherboard has two open spots for video RAM, and that there were thermal pads in those spots on the heatsink.
I replaced the old thermal pads with some scrap thermal pads that my best friend gave me on the GPU and video RAM before applying the paste to the cpu and putting her back together. The GPU actually did have a thermal pad on top of it which had a slight crack in it, but it's hard to say if it existed before I removed the heatsink.
Triela's running cooler now, and as always, I didn't take temperatures before doing any of this, so I only really have fan noise for comparison.
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