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Jsteinfan 03:43 pm UTC 02/13/08 |
| In reply to: | re: NJC: Computer temperatures - daveake 03:26 pm UTC 02/13/08 |
> > Fill bath with cold water. Place PC in bath. Sorted. Dave, surely you mean: 1) Fill Bath with cold water 2) get into bath 3) Plug computer in and turn it on 4) bathe computer in bath with you.... > > This may however cause other problems ... > > Anyway, can I translate for you? You didn't open the hard > drive, 'cos those things are sealed and there's no chance > of any dust being inside. And opening a hard drive causes > said hard drive to become a door stop. You mean the base > unit. Dust inside is, basically, bits of you that have > fallen off. Keeping a PC in a bedroom isn't a good idea > because of the amount of dead skin that will get sucked in > to the PC. > > There will be two or maybe three fans in the PC. Make > sure they're all spinning away merrily. If they are, and > there's nothing blocking the air to/from each fan, then > the temperature should be fine. Make sure the heatsink (a > metal finned thing) sat on the CPU (the hot thing) is > fixed down properly. Sometimes the clips come undone if > the machine is moved. > > I don't know what temperatures CPUs reach these days, but > 51.8C doesn't sound worryingly high to me. A gradual rise > over months will either me more bits-of-Ryan clogging up > the fans, or a fan slowing down (just replace - they're > cheap (certainly cheaper than moving to Scotland ;-))). > > Dave | |
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