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		Reason077 on April 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal There’s also a simple mod you can do to the MacBook Air (installing a thermal pad on the SoC) which significantly improves heat dissipation - check YouTube. I have a similar setup (except 8 core) and with the mod I don’t feel any need for an external fan for gaming.

_mj0m on April 26, 2023 [–]

Yeah I was tempted to do it to make my fan cooling work even better, but I want to be able to resell this Air soon. It's being replaced with a M2 Mini with 24GB of RAM. Finally tired of the 8GB life.

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