Do my fans need replaced?
Hey guys. I have an acer nitro 515 57, ive had it since 2022, its served me really well, recently had the thermal pasting re done which should have been done earlier but theres no repair shops nearby and I needed it for other things. Anyway. Even with the thermal pasting done again, it still gets really hot when gaming and I end up pointing a fan at it to waft cool air over it. CPU on the left side generally stays cool, but the GPU gets BURNING hot pretty easilly.
I always have it propped up so the fans can blow outward. Hooked up to keyboard and monitor. Currently with a low demand game running in the background. Nitrosense says that my GPU is 62⁰c and my CPU is 73⁰c. Yet the side my CPU is on is still cold and the gpu is hot (touching the keyboard) it also says that CPU fans are running 3061 rpm and GPU is 3658 rpm. Generally with no game running it sits at about 2-2.5k.
Is this a sign my fans need replaced? I asked the computer guy to check it over and give me a list of things that may need replaced, I already just replaced the battery, and he said everything was fine.
When I run a high demand game, I cannot touch the right side of the keyboard for more than a second because it burns. Dunno if its worth noting but this computer was on display in a shop for about a year before I got it.
Edit to add: the fans aren't dirty, i regularly clean them every month, holding the fans still and using compressed air