Chemical Irony » computer http://www.chemicalirony.com Our lives. One comic and post at a time. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:09:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Clean Your Computer Out. http://www.chemicalirony.com/2009/12/19/clean-your-computer-out/ http://www.chemicalirony.com/2009/12/19/clean-your-computer-out/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:39:47 +0000 jdrames http://www.chemicalirony.com/?p=768 My computer cpu performance has been a bit sluggish of late. Notably so because I’ve been working a lot with video editing lately.

So I decided to start monitoring some of my temps ecetra. I noticed my cpu was WAY hot. Like 85 degrees C hot under a moderate pc load. For those of you who are totally Americanized and didn’t pay attention in science class that works out to around 185 degrees F. That’s hot. At idle the pc was at 70c, under load it would peak to about 98c.

So went out and picked up a can of compressed air and shut the compy down. Blasted it clean of all the dust that had built up on the components. Dear god was there a lot of dust. I don’t have any sort of allergies, but I can smell the dust that is still lingering in the air right now and it’s been 10 minutes.

Fired up my pc. Let it warm up a bit and then ran the cpu maxed out for 10 minutes. My temps now are idle at 39c and under max cpu usage 50c. That is a much happier and safer range for your cpu and pc all around.so if you haven’t cleaned your computer out since you’ve bought it, you might want to consider grabbing a can of air from Walmart the next time you are there and opening it up for a little spray out. Though, it might be best to do outside. It can be VERY dusty in there.

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Parts List

  • Windows 7 Pro 64-bit OEM-newegg item#N82E16832116758
  • Intel Core i7-860-newegg item#N82E16819115214
  • EVGA GTX 260 Superclocked Edition-newegg item#N82E16814130433
  • EVGA X58 Intel Motherboard-newegg item#N82E16813188046
  • Kingwin 600W Modular Power Supply-newegg item#N82E16817121012
  • G.Skill 6GB DDR2 1600 Ram-newegg item#N82E16820231225

Total cost of parts at the time of this post was $1,127.94. However generally with buying parts of the span of time you usually end up paying less as prices drop on hardware. The OS cost doesn’t look like it’ll be dropping much in the next few months to a year so you can get that off the list to start. Same is mostly true about the power supply. After that just work the way up from least expensive to most expensive.

Well there is my update for today. I’ll get on the rest of the crew to throw on a few posts as they have all been pretty neglectful as of late.

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