9 Mar
2006
9 Mar
'06
9:20 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:56:34PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
So I'm probably OK, but a dust out of the heatsink seems to have brought this down to below 50 degrees now. After being on for a while it's sitting at 44 degrees, I expect it'll go up a few degrees more but I seem to have won ten degrees or so by a spring clean.
The inside of the case looked perfectly clean but the fins of the heatsink itself were pretty dusty.
I've found that to make a big difference with my cpu cooler too (Zalman copper flower on an Barton core Athlon XP 2800+) so I try to get in the case every few months and clean it out or just brush the heatsink down each time I have the case open for "fiddling".
Thanks Adam
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