Not the greatest guide. 2 and 3 shouldn't be causing overheating unless you are running a potato. I don't know the impact of 4, but I can't imagine that its much on modern PCs. 1 and 5 are the only real advice. Blocked vents and dust are the other two good points, everything else seems questionable. Tab overload isn't a problem anymore, both Chrome and Firefox manage and deactivate tabs you haven't recently used.
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Knowing that AMD processors are set to just keep pushing power into them until they are just below their thermal limit is why I set the minimum and maximum power usage for it to 99% instead of 100. It might be okay for the CPU to run ~95c all the time; I don't know if the same is true for the motherboard it is slotted into. I'd rather just not see it go higher than 85c.