Hi,
I've just started to clean my computer today after over a year of no cleaning, this is my first time using compressed air bottles to clean my PC's insides, I blew everything, the fan (I foolishly blew the fans without holding it, then I read afterwards that it is recommended to hold the fan blades still when doing this or else it might fry the fan's circuitry if it moves faster than it is mechanically designed for), the fan where I blew the most was probably the fan on my GPU.
After everything's set and done I took the computer in and did some testing run, not only did it not got better but my GPU seems to be getting to the temperature of 101 celsius with the GPU fan at 100% load.
At this point I'm thinking I must have screwed up one(or more) of the fans by blowing directly into it, and I'm guessing it's the GPU's fan, since my CPU temps are fine (I'm a newb at this, so I'm thinking CPU coolers have nothing to do with the graphics card's temperature?). And when the overheatting hits my performance starts to drop massively in games, as expected. If anyone can offer any insights or solutions, that'd be great.
I've just started to clean my computer today after over a year of no cleaning, this is my first time using compressed air bottles to clean my PC's insides, I blew everything, the fan (I foolishly blew the fans without holding it, then I read afterwards that it is recommended to hold the fan blades still when doing this or else it might fry the fan's circuitry if it moves faster than it is mechanically designed for), the fan where I blew the most was probably the fan on my GPU.
After everything's set and done I took the computer in and did some testing run, not only did it not got better but my GPU seems to be getting to the temperature of 101 celsius with the GPU fan at 100% load.
At this point I'm thinking I must have screwed up one(or more) of the fans by blowing directly into it, and I'm guessing it's the GPU's fan, since my CPU temps are fine (I'm a newb at this, so I'm thinking CPU coolers have nothing to do with the graphics card's temperature?). And when the overheatting hits my performance starts to drop massively in games, as expected. If anyone can offer any insights or solutions, that'd be great.
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