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16th February 2005, 12:50 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| What You Don’t Know Can Cook You: How Dust Impacts a CPU’s Temperature I have a confession to make, though I know I’m not the only computer user guilty of this particular sin: I’m terrible at remembering to regularly clean the dust out of my computer. I run Ad Aware, update McAfee, and install Windows critical updates to keep my installations running smoothly, but when it comes to actually blowing out the case, I habitually forget. As much as I’d like to present this article as the epic conclusion to a months-long effort to carefully track and monitor how (and to what degree) dust buildup affects system temperatures, the reality is more mundane. http://sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=648
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| How about dusting off the radiator fins from water cooling? I bet the dust collected there may cause lower heat dissipation too.
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