Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development

Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by dajonker on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:31AM (#13299829)

I have a X240 (12.5" version of the T440) for about 2.5 years now, and while indeed being super quiet when it's new, today the fan is almost always on, even if it's only on the lowest speed. Probably need to open it up and give it a good cleaning, and/or replace the thermal paste between the CPU and cooler.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by aiur3la on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:35AM (#13299841)

I did that with 2009 thinkpad and it got much worse. I guess the cheap paste I used was worse than the 6 year old paste lenovo had used :(

What _did_ help was to take out the fan, clean it and then oil it carefully (too much oil or doing so without cleaning it first will only make things worse). You can also buy replacement fans, although original fans are quite expensive.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by favadi on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:19AM (#13301562)

Thermal paste shouldn't be matter much.

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