James@CCC
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Registered: 10th Nov 03
Location: Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire
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My laptop is pushing 3 years old but it needs to do one more year before i graduate but its running a bit slow sometimes. I dont know if its caused by how hot it gets sometimes but it does get very hot and the fan is so loud its a joke!
anyway, is there a way i can improve it, it never used to do it. may it be clogged up or something? i also saw u can get external fan things that sit under the laptop powered byt usb, are these any good/worth it?
cheers
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ChrisBoom
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Registered: 6th Dec 06
Location: Highland
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Yeah, you can clean it out.
There should be a cover bit under the fan, remove it, clean it all up, unclog the fan etc.
The external fans are really good actually, providing you get a good one.
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James@CCC
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Registered: 10th Nov 03
Location: Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire
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nah theres no cover to remove, i guess id have to take the whole thing apart to do it?
might just invest in a external thingy
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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Yeah you will probably have to remove a few components. Some of the connections might be strips and a right pain to plug back in.
I'd just hover out the keyboard and any other air intakes tbh.
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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I will give mine a hoover I think, but I was tempted to get one of the external fans aswell, seeing as it gets treated like a desktop and never gets turned off 
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
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you can buy the cooling pads on ebay for like a tenner, its just a pad you sit your laptop on and fans in the pad keep the air flowing underneath it. i've no idea how effective they are, maybe somebody else does?
also, it might depend on where you use it at the moment, sitting with it on a bed or on the sofa with it on a cushion is not good as it doesn't allow any moving air etc 
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