It's not your cooler or thermal paste that's the problem.

The heat first comes off the CPU and GPU, which sit below a metal plate and a layer of TIM (aka Thermal Interface Material).

Well, I'm pretty sure it isn't SOP to replace the CPU fan. I think that the fan just got borked after all the time you've used it. Then again, maybe not. If you want to ask that they replace the CPU, ...

Repasting is cheap and easy to do, generally. I'd give that a shot. While you're doing that, make sure no dust bunnies have built a nest in the heatsink fins. Modern systems will park cores and do ...

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