I spent an hour and a half taking out all of my case fans and my CPU heatsink fans, cleaning them, cleaning the heatsink itself, putting it all back together again (with slightly better cable arrangement in fact) as well as vacuuming the rest of my case...and my max temps under load (15 minutes of IBT) have increased from 82,81,81,75 to 88,88,87,82.
My first thought was that I put a fan or two back the wrong way around but I've just double checked them and they're fine (front fan intake, rear+top fans exhaust, CPU fans push-pull towards rear). So how did this happen then? Even ambient temps should've been slightly lower cos I had my window open for about ten minutes whilst doing all of this and it's -5 outside!
My first thought was that I put a fan or two back the wrong way around but I've just double checked them and they're fine (front fan intake, rear+top fans exhaust, CPU fans push-pull towards rear). So how did this happen then? Even ambient temps should've been slightly lower cos I had my window open for about ten minutes whilst doing all of this and it's -5 outside!
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