I have to keep the original. It's definitely inline with other outlets since it causes my living room lights to dim when I turn on the PC

That was definitely my intention, leave what's there in place and run a new line but wasn't sure what code wise was needed. In another post someone said use a Dual gang which would be more visually appealing than a second outlet and capping the original.

The issue is I believe the box is neither the beginning of the circuit or end. I don't know the outlet path throughout the floor. I know for sure two lamps (only LED bulbs) are on it because they dim for a brief second when the PC is turned on.

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>u/EntertainmentUsual87 "Had she played a game, they probably would have either died or shaved some life off of them" No, it would have throttled. End of story.

OK. No electronic apparently according to you no electronic has ever died to heat. You live your life risking your stuff, see if I care.

For what you said, there is still airflow though and you aren't trapping heat directly on the component.

See below, Step 2. Failure to remove the plastic from the thermal pad inhibits thermal conductivity between the drive/pad to the Heatsink almost entirely. All heat is trapped on the drive with no place to go. It's basically if you wrapped the drive in electrical tape. No heat dissipation

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zPLe954AL.jpg

In general the laptop does a good job at cooling, I ALWAYS log HWInfo after each session (except NVMe which I guess I'll start doing) on all my computers and they all stay pretty cool, well below the respective thermal maxes

That's painful

I did something similar (except it wasn't my fault)I discovered/executed a task that was bugged and took down the entire network at my old job. Woops

Haha no worries. Yeah luckily neither of us did anything intensive. I booted it up and did a small Windowa update and an undervolt but was getting annoyed by the slowness and stopped undervolting.

Had she played a game, they probably would have either died or shaved some life off of them

I took the film off yesterday and it ran normal and in a fashion one would expect. No micro-stutters or slowness

Working at Geeksquad doesn't make you a computer nerd.

? This is her personal/my laptop. I bought it for her

Because presumably the drive was overheating and throttled itself so far down it was like using a mechanical drive on Windows 3.1

Removing the plastic as I should have allowed thermal transfer between the pad and copper Heatsink. With the plastic on, the pad had nothing to transfer the heat to and all that heat was trapped under the plastic.

Windows was so erratic that I wouldn't trust the drive to throttle itself. Had th processor been boosting and the 3070 active, the drives would have been heatsoaked to oblivion. If they didn't act write in Windows, gaming certainly wouldn't have done it any favors