“Any PC enthusiast knows that thermal paste is something to be applied in precise amounts. Maybe Apple could take a lesson from all of us out there who have tacked a cooler onto a CPU. Apparently, the recent rash of toasty MacBooks can be attributed to excessive amounts of silicon thermal paste applied between chips and heat sinks. A number of MacBook users have, in heated desperation, resorted to cracking open their MacBooks only to find minuscule amounts of thermal silicon between the chip and sink, but massive amounts of silicon paste spilling out around the edges. Now, if the silicon thermal paste had been applied properly all these MacBooks wouldn’t be cooking themselves to death,” J. Micah Grunert reports for Neoseeker.
“Some MacBook users had cried that their computer was running at just over 50 Degrees Celsius. But once a better thermal paste replaced the silicon, temperatures dropped to roughly human body temperatures, some 35 to 39 Degrees Celsius,” Grunert reports.
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