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| 451122 | 2006-05-01 10:38:00 | Today I took off the side panel in order to do some routine removal of dust. There are two plastic levers on opposite sides of the fan covering the main chip, a 3Ghz P4. I flipped the levers but the fan would not budge. Does it take much pulling force to remove the fan, or am I doing something wrong? My PC is about 18 months old, and the first time I cleaned it was after one year. It was surprising how much dust was clogging the fan. I use a small artist paint brush to get the dust out, but wonder if there could be a significant amount of dust on the P4 chip itself, which I cannot see. Advice? BTW the power supply fan and the various ventilation holes on the side panel had only a small amount of dust. Most dust collects on the thermal radiator fins just underneath the P4 fan itself. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 451123 | 2006-05-01 10:52:00 | What socket? 478 or LGA775 478's: After lifting the two fan handles, there are four clips holding the CPU fan clip to the heatsink clip. If your careful a small electricians screwdriver can get in between the two bits and prise the four clips off indivually. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 451124 | 2006-05-01 11:02:00 | don't take it off. if you do you will need to reappy the thermal paste. the heatsink can ne easly cleaned while it is in the pc. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 451125 | 2006-05-01 11:10:00 | Don't have a clue what socket it is. Ah yes the thermal paste - I remember this now. Well, it is a good thing I did not take it off. OK, so as long as the radiator fins (whatever they are called), the fan blades, and side panel vent holes, are all cleaned of dust, I need not do anything else? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 451126 | 2006-05-01 22:29:00 | BTW the power supply fan and the various ventilation holes on the side panel had only a small amount of dust. Most dust collects on the thermal radiator fins just underneath the P4 fan itself. I am really surprised that you found little dust in the PSU. In my experience the PSU is the dustiest place of the entire PC. Whenever I give them a blast of compressed air clouds of dust always billows out like a sand storm in the Sahara Desert. Are you sure there is no dust in there? It isn't visible until a bit of fast air is directed at it. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 451127 | 2006-05-03 08:31:00 | With the type of fan setup you're talking about it's no problem to remove it, clean the faces of the CPU and the heatsink with isopropyl alcohol or electrical cleaner and renew the thermal paste. I did it today and my CPU is running 3 - 4 degrees cooler. Now that you've disturbed it you'll probably need to. Keep an eye on your CPU temperature. Put the cleaning fluid onto a lint free cotton cloth, not directly onto the CPU. Be careful. The full story here: www.neoseeker.com and here: www.neoseeker.com |
Vallis (8886) | ||
| 451128 | 2006-05-03 11:41:00 | Cleaning your P4 3GHz? I know there's a lot of dust because the processor heat sinker fan runs on high RPM to sink the heat out. I haven't clean my computer sinker yet for almost 2yrs now and if you want your computer cooler temperature just repair the computer files to keep the fan cooler like registry fix and etc. to lower down the heat sink fan RPM. I also use Norton system works to clean my cache files. | MTLance (6768) | ||
| 451129 | 2006-05-03 22:15:00 | I am really surprised that you found little dust in the PSU. In my experience the PSU is the dustiest place of the entire PC. Whenever I give them a blast of compressed air clouds of dust always billows out like a sand storm in the Sahara Desert. Are you sure there is no dust in there? It isn't visible until a bit of fast air is directed at it. Thanks Foxy. I will check it again and blast it with compressed air. |
Strommer (42) | ||
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