Cleaning out the PC what a Difference

[memphisto]

well due to the heat and me noticing more and more the heat of not only my room but the PC rising decided to take it apart clean it and put it all back together.

although getting on now this thing has served me well and I could do with it serving me for a fair few years longer so thought it best i put the effort in.

anyway aside from a few snags listed below everything went great and signigficant drop in temps to boot.

SNAGS

1: Globalwin CAK 88T Heatsink - Snapped temp sensor, replaced with YSTECH fan although not sure if thats worse or better as old fan which i think was temps / speed sensored is pushing a hell of a lot of air now out the back of my case. (wasnt sure whether the removal of the sensor would make it run at minimum or maximum)

2: Did not have long thin screwdriver so could not remove 80mm fan to 60mm fan adaptor between heatsink and well Fan. This hindered the cleaning of the heatsink somewhat.

3: Could not get computer to boot into windows when all back together. When finally did was met with yer grpahics card does not have enough power message ?????? then realised i hadnt connected the power to the GC (did however wonder why I had a spare wire, put that down to DIY Tbh)


anyway now the groundshatteringly awesome results.

oh spec.
XP1700 @ 2600 Default volts (can push higher but PC now only server / media bos thingy)

Idle temp before 47.50 - 48.50

Idle Temp Afterwards - 42.50 - 43.50

Room temps around 29

This I think will be improved again tomorrow when I put the fan from the globalwin back on the heatsink and the YStech back to exhaust duty.


one happy bunny.


So all in all quite happy

 

[TheVoice]

That's quite an impressive difference. Did you just clean the dist out from your fans, drives etc, or was it more thorough?

I tend to keep my PC fairly clean (the side window forces that on me!), but a lot of people don't realise just how much of an effect dust build-up can have.

 

[memphisto]

well in the three or so years ive had it i try and do this about once every 6 months, basically strip it down to motherboard and CPU (dont remove heatsink) clean everything normally just with a combination of toilet roll (mops up dust really well) and a low powered hand hoover.

this means taking each fan individually and cleaning the fins / everything, cleaning the components individually and then basically a lot of blowing of the dust of the interiror of the case, removing the front etc and cleanning the bezzles which were pretty maknk i must say.

then clean off all the wires, re tape them down and replace, takes abotu an hour. then the fretting and hoping that the thing will boot into windows.

think i could probably get another degree or two of that idle temp when o swap the fans tomorrow as well.

Normally the only additional thing i would do is remove the fan adaptor fromt he heatsink and give that a much more thorough clean. again i might do that tomorrow if i can find a screwdriver to take the screws out.

 

[Kalsius]

Snap! I did this at the weekend whilst watching various motorsports

Makes a big difference and I try to do it every few months, I even managed to re-route some cables a bit neater this time so overall I have a much better airflow and I definitely shaved 3-4 degrees off my idle temps.