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**WereBo** · 06-20-2009, 03:59 PM

The easiest and cheapest way to help cool the insides, is to tidy the cables up, especially if you have any IDE-drive ribbon-cables, they can block or divert some major airflow if left dangling all over the place.

Also clean out all the dust you can find, dust-bunnies often breed between the heatsink-vanes on the CPU - A tin of compressed-air and an artists paint-brush is excellent for that, it's easier if you can remove the fan off the top of the CPU/heatsink. DON'T remove the heatsink itself, you'll need a special thermal paste for it to work, when reseated.

Alternatively, you could replace the slow fan with something more powerful.

06-20-2009, 03:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,490 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Which one should do which? The easiest and cheapest way to help cool the insides, is to tidy the cables up, especially if you have any IDE-drive ribbon-cables, they can block or divert some major airflow if left dangling all over the place. Also clean out all the dust you can find, dust-bunnies often breed between the heatsink-vanes on the CPU - A tin of compressed-air and an artists paint-brush is excellent for that, it's easier if you can remove the fan off the top of the CPU/heatsink. DON'T remove the heatsink itself, you'll need a special thermal paste for it to work, when reseated. Alternatively, you could replace the slow fan with something more powerful. __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.