Clogs of Dust on the GPU

**Trajan** · November 08, 2006, 08:24 PM

How often do you clean up all the dust on your GPUs? I've had my GF 7900GT OCed since last March and it always had a temp of 49-52C but a couple of months ago, the temp rose to 67-72C and stayed there. I was a little bit concerned but I figured it was caused my the extreme heat in my area. Today, I decided to remove as much dust as I could from the GPU in preparation for M2TW next week and after starting up my PC and checking my GPU core temp, I was happy to see that it went back down to 50-52C. ****, from now on, I'm cleaning the GPU once a month.

**AlfonsoVIII** · November 09, 2006, 12:41 AM

It is not a matter of cleaning everytime, but you need to make sure you have enough fans. I have a really big fan blowing on the side of the machine where the case has a nice hole to blow alot of air onto the VC. Now, I would see about moving the clips in the PCI slots above and below the card to allow dust to pass through the computer, instead of bouncing off and landing on your card.

**Savage_Swede** · November 09, 2006, 12:48 AM

I try and dust off the whole inside regularly. Ever since the time in summer when it was so bloody warm here and the computer started shutting right off after 3-5 minutes of gaming. I even asked around here in the basement. And in the end i called customer service and they recommended dusting of the inside of the computer. And after i had done that, everything worked perfectly again.

So yeah, it is very recommended.

**Trajan** · November 09, 2006, 01:30 AM

Thanks AlfonsoVIII and Savage_Swede, I will follow both of your tips.

**mac89** · November 09, 2006, 06:04 AM

Also a usefull tip if you havent done already is to get your pc off the ground onto your desk.

**Trajan** · November 09, 2006, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by mac89

Also a usefull tip if you havent done already is to get your pc off the ground onto your desk.

It is. I used to have my old PC on the floor but I had this problem with constantly kicking it by accident so one thing eventually led to another.

**Brian1980** · November 09, 2006, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Trajan

How often do you clean up all the dust on your GPUs? I've had my GF 7900GT OCed since last March and it always had a temp of 49-52C but a couple of months ago, the temp rose to 67-72C and stayed there. I was a little bit concerned but I figured it was caused my the extreme heat in my area. Today, I decided to remove as much dust as I could from the GPU in preparation for M2TW next week and after starting up my PC and checking my GPU core temp, I was happy to see that it went back down to 50-52C. ****, from now on, I'm cleaning the GPU once a month.

Have you treid fitting dust filters onto your intake and out take fans?