21/08/2026
Lenovo Laptop — Deep Clean, Repair & Thermal Service
Thermal paste has a shelf life. ⏳
It's the grey stuff between your processor and its cooler, and its whole job is to fill the microscopic gaps between the two so heat can cross. When it's fresh it works beautifully. After three or four years of heat cycles it dries out, cracks, and turns into an insulator instead of a conductor.
That's what you're looking at in the first photo — the crusty grey residue on this Lenovo's processor. The laptop wasn't faulty. It was just being strangled by a five-pound consumable that had reached the end of its life.
Cleaned off, fresh paste applied, temperatures back where they should be.
If your laptop is three years or older and getting warm, it's almost certainly due. Message us and we'll book it in.