Sheffield Computer Services

A dusty all in one cooler, before and after a dust cleaning. Also changed thermal paste for the CPU and the cooler keeps CPU temps 10° cooler.

One of the most complicated inside of a laptop we've worked on! Can't really believe the nest of wires - looked like connecting all the components of the machine together was a design afterthought!

Useful Windows and Mac keyboard shortcuts for general use, system navigation and web browsing. Checkout our post here: https://sheffieldcomputerservices.co.uk/useful-windows-and-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-for-general-use-system-navigation-and-web-browsing/

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We get asked this question a lot, "Do I need an antivirus program on my Windows machine?" - We found a good article going into the pro and cans. More in here: https://sheffieldcomputerservices.co.uk/do-you-need-an-antivirus-program-on-a-windows-computer/

Cleaning the cooling system on an Asus Tuf gaming laptop. There's quite an extensive heatsink which interesting does use heatpipe to transfer heat from the chips to the heatsink like most powerful machines do. You can see lots of dust on the fans and heatsinks, and dried and cracked thermal pads and paste - we replaced this with new materials as well as cleaning all the dust and there system cooling as normal now without the fans on full all the time.