There are another 4 blocks under the laptop to further dissipate heat. Off camera, there is a large box fan and a ceiling fan keeping it from thermal death. Sometimes, keeping scrap can help immensely.
I just need one day of web browsing at 80 C to keep it alive (I hope).
ETA: the acutual pic
I vaguely remember someone experimenting with a large block of copper as a heat sink to compare it with actively cooled heat sinks. It worked really well and for quite a long time.
I’m getting about -5 degrees from this. It’s enough to web browse, but I don’t want to tank the GPU
Last time I had critical cooling failures I opened the casing up entirely and used some big fans to blow on it, but that was a very long time ago when things were very big (and not a laptop).
If you can remove the upper or lower parts of the laptop shell you might even be able to rest the actual internal heatsink on one of those blocks.
It’s not that big a deal because I’m getting new fans on Friday, I just need to keep the thing cool enough to browse the web etc.
Just browse on your phone for a day, it’s not worth the risk.