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[ShadowLink64]

Ok, well I've been having some funny shit happening with my laptop for the last couple of months. Basically, it never used to climb anywhere past 60 degrees celsius on a full CPU load, and then a couple months ago I noticed that right after I spilled juice on my laptop, the CPU temperature would climb 20 to 30 degrees higher than normal, and in some cases it would hit 100 degrees celsius, kicking on the CPU throttle making my computer run like crap.

Now, today I had the brainwave to blow the laptop out a bit to get some dust out of there, just in case that happened to be the problem instead of the juice. Well, I noticed an immediate change... no longer was this thing running at 70 to 90 degrees celsius, but more at the acceptable 40 to 50 range. But sheesh, nearly a 30 degree temperature difference just by blowing a bit of dust out.

[Mumei]

yup this is true about desktops as well as laptops

a friend had their PC crashing when it got hot, i told them to get the vac out LOL

[Hydrogen]

Ive had the same experience . It's slightly annoying

[qwertyqw123]

lol, i never knew that. Maybe i should give it a try lol.

[Hydrogen]

You should try to clean out your computer like this atleast once every month or two months .

[Black Flame]

Haha that's weird.

Yeah I tried to blow the dust out of my comp once and...uh...this happened.

[SupermanFTM]

Eh, I really need to do it more...but I can never remember to buy compressed air when I see it, and I don't see it that often

[Cataliste]

I use a vacuum cleaner and a toothbrush. Good for getting dust out of those fans, where it seems to be glued in.

[Bryn AKA Interhacker]

the fan on my laptop is enclosed so i cant blow the dust out... ...any ideas?

[Hydrogen]

the fan on my laptop is enclosed so i cant blow the dust out... ...any ideas?

Try to find a way? I'm sure you can without taking it apart...those powerful compressed air dusters really do a great job.

If you are looking for cooling options though, try checking out a laptop cooling pad .

[Cataliste]

Gah. It's been about 6 months since I cleaned my desktop. Took me an hour. I completely took it apart. Cleaned EVERY piece of equipment with a toothbrush. And then I put it all back together.

Results: I need to buy thermal grease, I dropped my heatsink and got fuzz on it so I had to wipe most of it off. Link me to some good thermal grease guys! My computer started dying in game. Asus Probe figured the problem. Apparently I was hitting around 140F. Now I am currently at 80F, hitting about 91F while gaming.

CLEANING THE DUST DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

[phalkon]

yeah, i had *never* thought that the much dust could get into an enclosed space, until i looked inside my old computer (that had never been opened in the 3 years we've had it)

omg... it was disgusting! needless to say, i'll def be cleaning my new baby out every couple of months!

[Fatal]

vacuumed out my laptop dropped CPU temps ~8c Dropped my GPU temps too but I dont know by how much

[sarah.]

Wow I never realised that some dust could make such a difference. I just cleaned loads out of my computer cause of this topic and now I can hardly hear the sound it makes, when before it was a lot louder.

[Bryn AKA Interhacker]

yeah i decided to take it apart in the end , cleaned it out but no difference...

[qwertyqw123]

will using a toothbrush damage some of your computer parts?

[Cataliste]

will using a toothbrush damage some of your computer parts?

Make sure it's dry. And don;t like try to push it TOO hard. I mean, you can apply pressure. Make sure you are discharged of all static before taking the computer apart. IE, touch the case (metal) before you try anything else.

[qwertyqw123]

lol, i might just clean my computer next time as it hasn't been long.

[Hlaw]

dont know how to open my laptop :\

[ShadowLink64]

What's funny is that this 30 degree change of CPU temperature resulted from very little dust being blown out. I didn't even notice any dust leave the laptop, I just blew a bit where the fan was, then where the heatsink fins were, and then fired up the computer and its temperature decreased a whole bunch. It was crazy.