oscaryu1

Yes! You always need to clean them! Compressed air is the best way.

60C is high. 88C? Insane (literally). I suggest that:

1) Get new or clean the case fans
2) Clean the CPU fan
3) Get Arctic Silver 5

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lovely?

he will not know how to apply the thermal paste so it is best not to suggest things that might irreparably kill his computer.

best bet? buy a five dollar fan from newegg.com to stick into the back of your computer to suck out air, and get every bit of dirt out of that fan on your motherboard.

the thing is, when the dust builds up the air cannot contact the metal heatsink to whisk the heat away from your cpu, which causes intense overheating and can kill your computer fast quick and in a hurry

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Sometimes scientists make things alot harder than they need to. All they've gotta do is put a big spring on the ground where they think it's gonna land, or send a mission to the moon to erect a sign that says "Welcome to Earth".

imsati

And you know this how? Have some faith.

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Gigabyte EP31-DS3L | E4500 | Masscool HSF paired with AS-5
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You do realize that everytime PC eye Posts, God kicks a puppy, and every time someone takes his advice, He smothers a kitten in front of a child, right?
http://www.computerforum.com/114761-...tml#post922619

bigbird

just go here:http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/274/1
or here:http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_rout...2intelas5.html

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CraigCGrant

Yea compressed air is cheap and very effective when it comes to cleaning computer hardware.