Need suggestions on laptop cooling.

Operating System

Windows 10

Computer Specs (PSU, GPU, CPU, RAM, Motherboard)

HP Pavilion g7-2243us Refurbished Notebook PC - AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M 2.8GHz, 6GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, 17.3" Display.

Speccy Link

N/A

Description of problem

I'm a former PC tech, but have been disabled for a few years. I have the above laptop. I had to replace the CPU fan due to noise. I used whatever heat sink compound I happened to have on hand. The laptop worked at the time, but a few months later my son reported it was shutting down due to overheating. I cleaned off the old heat sink compound. This time I used https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045JCFLY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8

Submitted February 28, 2018 at 02:28PM by frito123 http://ift.tt/2t1JM1d