pc overheating

colin13

hi my pc started to cut off after about 1/2 hrs use,,I was told it was because it was over heating,,, I took cover off and blew all the dust out,, so far this has been sucessfull ,,question is,, can I stop this happening again,,

Arlen

You can fit additional fans to the pc case. If there is not a fan on the rear of the case you can fit one quite easily. There are normally spare power pins on the motherboard marked FAN.

Or you can fit something like http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3PMZ which is a card that fits into the back of the PC and extracts air. It covers up 2 PCI slots however and it is powered by (looking at the product pictures) a Molex (standard pc component plug) pass through connector. This is £10

[Deleted User]

Exhaust fans are a waste of time.

Get an airduster and make sure you clean out the heatsinks on your processor and the fans and that should be ok.

Arlen

be_alright wrote: »

Exhaust fans are a waste of time.

If they are a waste of time why are they fitted to most PCs as standard (also not forgetting they are fitted to printers, scanners, photocopiers etc)

I have one fitted to my PC (and servers and thousands of PCs at work) they reduce the case temperatures by circulating air through the cases. Fitting mine at lowered the case temperature, therfore reducing the temperature the CPU fan and GPU fans had to cope with and as a bonus has reduced the dust in the PC.

Air dusters are fine as a cleaner but exhaust fans should be fitted as preventative maintainance.

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Arlen wrote: »

If they are a waste of time why are they fitted to most PCs as standard (also not forgetting they are fitted to printers, scanners, photocopiers etc)

I have one fitted to my PC (and servers and thousands of PCs at work) they reduce the case temperatures by circulating air through the cases. Fitting mine at lowered the case temperature, therfore reducing the temperature the CPU fan and GPU fans had to cope with and as a bonus has reduced the dust in the PC.

Air dusters are fine as a cleaner but exhaust fans should be fitted as preventative maintainance.

I meant the exhaust fans that require two slots as posted above..

timestar

I have my laptop on a stand that has fans inside that help to cool the temperature. I know that some people argue that this doesn't do much, but I find that it helps. Be careful however where the fans are for your model as for some makes I understand that such pads can increase the temperature.