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My Dell laptop has been running really slow recently and this weekend I run a CPU Benchmark test which highlighted a severe problem in that it was running at fraction of the speed it should have been.
The CPU test I used was CPUBench2003. More benchmarking utilities are here.
I found the solution lurking on the Web ... it involved dismantling the fans and vacuuming out the exhausts which were badly blocked with dust causing the laptop to overheat and the CPU to stepdown. When I rerun my benchmark, i had a ten times increase in performance.
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