Why do I need to clean the laptop cooling system?

The unprecedented decline in the cost of some laptop models has made these laptop computers incredibly popular. If earlier a person with an average income had to save money for such a purchase for several months, now the situation has changed. The price of budget solutions, whose performance is enough to view Internet pages, print abstracts on the printer and watch movies, is only $ 300. However, having bought a portable "silicon friend", later it is necessary not only to learn how to work well with the operating system and applications, but also to understand that the cooling system of the laptop should be periodically cleaned.

This operation requires disassembling the case and servicing the internal components of the computer. Although cleaning the cooling system of the laptop scares some users, nothing is complicated in this. It is important to understand that this is not a repair that can be performed only by the service center's employees, but a natural necessity. Almost like in cars: you need not only to add fuel and oil, but sometimes also to change filters. Since cleaning the laptop cooling system is inevitable, manufacturers of these portable devices provide easy access to components requiring maintenance (at least to most of them, although there are exceptions).

In any modern computer, there are several components that heat up considerably during operation. This is not a malfunction, but a normal mode, although, of course, not entirely desirable. The "hot team" is headed by the central processor, because it is on his "shoulders" that all mathematical calculations fall. Next to it is a video card, "on board" which, by the way, also has a specialized microprocessor. Electronic power circuits placed on the motherboard also contribute to increasing the temperature inside the case. Without removing excess heat, electronic switches (transistors) overheat, begin to malfunction and may fail due to thermal breakdown. Therefore, in computing systems, the cooling of the processor is used by blowing a metal radiator that contacts the body of this large microcircuit by the fan (cooler).

The compact size of laptops is their advantage, in comparison with stationary computers, but at the same time a disadvantage. The spacious body of the personal computer system allows you to place a large-sized cooling system that maintains sufficient efficiency even with a significant clogging of the radiator and fan with dust.

But in the close case of the laptop, cleaning the cooler should be done more often, because compact dimensions do not allow to have a "safety margin" for collecting dust. Frequent hovering, increased fan buzz, program errors are manifestations of component overheating due to clogging of the cooling system with dust contained in the air.

Cleaning the notebook cooling system involves the following steps:

- Turn off the power, remove the battery;

- unscrewing the screws holding the bottom cover and dismantling it;

- cleaning and blowing out the radiator and fan;

- dust removal from all available components;

- Reassemble in reverse order.

As we already mentioned above, this operation is not difficult and can be performed even at home.