- Joined
- Oct 6, 2001
- Location
- The wide open mid-west
When was the last time you cleaned the inside of your computer? Go take the fan off of your heatsink and look inside. I bet there's a lotta dust in there. All that dust brings down your performance, making your expensive and efficient heatsink just expensive.
I rummaged through my house looking for something small enough, yet sturdy to clean between the forest of cylinders the MCX-370 has. I found a great and fairly quick way to clean it, without requiring one to take the hsf off!
First, take off the fan. You can leave the actual heatsink in the socket for this. Then go find some pipe cleaners, cause we're gonna do some flossing. Take the pipe cleaner and put a hand on each end, just like if it was floss and make it tight. Then just stick the cleaner down a row of cylinders or between a valley of ridges and voila! Keep doing this to all the rows going in one direction. If you have a forest of cylinders (pins) like I did, then floss both from side to side and front to back (90 degrees).
My temps are back to normal again thanks to a little spring cleaning. I hope this is helpful to at least someone. It was the easiest way to clean it thoroughly and it helped myself a lot!
I rummaged through my house looking for something small enough, yet sturdy to clean between the forest of cylinders the MCX-370 has. I found a great and fairly quick way to clean it, without requiring one to take the hsf off!
First, take off the fan. You can leave the actual heatsink in the socket for this. Then go find some pipe cleaners, cause we're gonna do some flossing. Take the pipe cleaner and put a hand on each end, just like if it was floss and make it tight. Then just stick the cleaner down a row of cylinders or between a valley of ridges and voila! Keep doing this to all the rows going in one direction. If you have a forest of cylinders (pins) like I did, then floss both from side to side and front to back (90 degrees).
My temps are back to normal again thanks to a little spring cleaning. I hope this is helpful to at least someone. It was the easiest way to clean it thoroughly and it helped myself a lot!