Does laptop performance decrease if I don’t reapply thermal paste ?

glennjohn
glennjohn Member Posts: 8

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edited October 2023 in 2020 Archives
So my laptop was given to a service center because of board complaint. Now everything is fixed and the performance of the laptop during casual use and gaming is laggy at times. I checked everything. Ram is okay (16gb), ssd is fine. But then they told me that they haven’t reapplied the thermal paste after removing the heat sink from the mother board. So I wanna know should I reapply thermal paste and will I get the old performance back if I do.

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