Cleaning a Dusty CPU (Part 1)
15 August 2011There comes a time in a PC’s life where in a little cleaning comes to order, especially when your cooling fans fail to achieve their optimal speed due to excessive dust. High temperatures can send a computers sensitive parts into the recycling bin, burning out chips that can handle the heat but not for too long a time.
The basic setup has your computer’s power supply, processor(CPU) and occasionally the high end video card having their own cooling fans to take the heat away from the parts they are installed onto. Dust hampers the cooling power of these fans and even insulates the several hundred if not thousands of components contained within the board from the cooling airflow from them.
Dusters in cans are the best tool and they come from many manufacturers but best use moisture free ones that will not cause more damage that you aim to prevent. Remove the cover of the PC’s CPU and unplug all wires and connectors(of course remembering where they all came from so you could plug them back in).
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