TIL my roommate's 2 cent washer trick fixed my overheating Dell in 5 minutes flat

My buddy Kyle at the coffee shop just showed me how a couple of rubber washers from the hardware store (80 cents total) lifted the back of my laptop enough to drop temps by 12 degrees C, no fan pad needed, has anyone else found a stupid simple fix like that?

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the_dylan1d ago

Huh. That's actually genius.

alice_reed471d ago

My friend tried this with a couple of metal washers instead and it shorted out his motherboard. The_dylan might have a better story than that.