Reminder to clean your heat-sink

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:42 pm

So im testing a power supply for a new review going up soon, and while im in my case i notice that my heat-sink is kinda dirty. So i grab some qtips and compressed air to clean it out. Now my temperetures are down to 33c under extreme load, ie F@H, vegas, adaware, defrag... and playing a cd (trying to max out my system). Before cleaning the heat-sink my temperetures were around 43c so thats a small 10c drop.

Post by **Illuminati** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:57 pm

Awesome reminder... lol. This is something that many enthusiasts don't really think of... <action> raises hand in admittance </action>

cadaveca · Post by **cadaveca** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:34 am

You are not an overclocker if you don't always have a can of compressed air on your desk. Accumulated dust particles can cause low benchmarks, instability, and in extreme cases, fire!

I clean every two days, but I'm neurotic. Not many other people I know don't have car so they can have more money for pc parts tho.