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Bloomin' 'eck

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Hi all,

So, today I had a few minutes to have a bit of a spring-clean of one of my PCs.

Took it apart, and got the hoover out and gave it a good vacuuming - saw lots of dust around the GTX580 GPU so thought I'd take it apart and see what's inside the plastic casework, surrounding the fan.

Just as well I did as the area where cool air is driven into the internal heatsink "slots" was literally carpeted in dust....I took a piccy which I'll upload in due course.

Got it all clean and lovely and put the PC back together again. Rebooted and surprise surprise: GPU is now running MUCH cooler and much quieter too - Afterburner reports around 59-60 deg C whilst crunching some Collatz tasks, instead around mid-80s' :-(

Lesson learned methinks ;)

regards
Tim
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