I have had heating issues on laptops in the past that were caused by a poor thermal interface between the CPU cooler and the CPU. Either the thermal interface m

I have had heating issues on laptops in the past that were caused by a poor thermal interface between the CPU cooler and the CPU. Either the thermal interface material was insufficient, or just not there at all. I was able to solve it myself by disassembling the laptop, removing the CPU cooler and cleaning the cooler and CPU heat spreader with alcohol before applying an appropriate amount of quality thermal paste (I used Arctic Silver of some sort... IV? V?)