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H2C Unit, dust clogging, overheating issues--
We have a lot of pets, and a lot of dust-- I noticed inside the case that the intake grill of the H2C unit had a fine coating of dust, so I thinking I would free up some air flow I rubbed it off with my fingers. Unfortunately I wasn't thinking did this with the unit on, and I'm afraid the dust might have gotten s@cked deeper into the unit, I have noticed some high temps with the nvidia monitoring software, as in 65C under moderate load. Of course I didn't start monitoring until after the dust incident so I have no idea what the temps were before... Should I pull the unit and use canned air or something to blow it out?
Many thanks
John
64 bit Vista Ultimate
XPS 710 H2C
QX6700
4 gb RAM
150 GB raptor
500 GB
250 gb
eVGA 9800 GX2
24" Samsung flat panel
Message Edited by jrc10000 on 10-27-2008 09:48 AM
- Use RealTemp to check the reading, nVidia monitoring is often inaccurate, then tell us what RealTemp says:
RealTemp: http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/Message Edited by hbk123 on 10-27-2008 03:17 PM Dave,
I didn't reapply the thermal paste, there was a little extra old paste around the processor so I just smeared that around the plate..... Uh oh. Would that really make a difference? I will repull the unit, reseat the ram and the cables again, and go get some artic silver.
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Posted October 27th, 2008 14:00