Takehisa201

I've been into tech stuff and have been cleaning out my pc, and my friends' PCs for the last 10 years, I've never encountered something like this X_X.

I have been experimenting with this, and it seems to not really affect my temps that much. THOUGH to put something in perspective: even if I open the window (which is right above the pc case) and the cold air comes in, the temps don't really change too much. the average drops a bit, but the fluctuations and peaks are still there.

I have not disassembled it, but I did check all of the screws just to make sure, everything was tightened properly.

I thought about that, but I had the most recent drivers before and after the cleanup. I also tried a full, clean driver reinstall with DDU.

I live on a boulevard which gets extremely dusty, I basically have to clean my pc out ever 2-3 months, and whenever I do all of my temps drop.

Hello! I have never posted anything unto this forum before, so please do excuse me if I marked or made a new topic incorrectly, however, I would appreciate some help. Something happened that has left me, and all of my tech friends, dumbfounded. After cleaning out my Windforce RTX2060S (this specific one for those interested: https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N206SWF2-8GD-rev-10#kf ) my temps in games are generally higher. This isn't the first time I've cleaned up my pc, neither the first time I cleaned this GPU out (had it since last year November), and my temps always dropped after cleaning it out from dust. This time, though, my GPU is running hotter, and the temps are fluctuating way too much. Before the cleanup, in Overwatch with my settings my temp capped out at 50°C, now after a full cleanup it's averaging 56°C, and even peaking at 65°C momentarily. I am aware that these temps aren't high and are fine for this GPU, however I am dumbfounded as to why it's suddenly running hotter after the cleanup. The shroud and fans haven't been taken off, both of the GPU fans are working correctly, and every system fan is running at normal speeds. I tried running my GPU fans at 100% for a short while, but after setting the speed back to auto, the temps returned to the higher than usual average. The GPU has always been handled with care, nothing has been knocked off, or anything of the sort. What has changed?