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Using mechanical oil instead of food oil is a must. Skin care oils are no good either. Air blower to clean it is a good idea.

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So iv got a good old 650ti and i wanna do a decent maintentance on it, i wanna take it out and use my new juicy air blower on it and i was wondering if i should put some short of oil or grease on the fans ( a few drops ) to make the fans have an easier time to spin, its a 6 yr old and i thought that it might be a good idea giving it a little juice after that long.. I was also wondering if i can do the same for the rest of my fans for example my cpu cooler and my case fans.

 

 

I only got oil that we use on food from our olive trees, if i use food oil is it gonna be bad? or should i use grease? i also got some bazeline that me sister uses if its better! 

 

Thanks in advance.

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Using mechanical oil instead of food oil is a must. Skin care oils are no good either. Air blower to clean it is a good idea.

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8 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Using mechanical oil instead of food oil is a must. Skin care oils are no good either. Air blower to clean it is a good idea.

Got any brand names in mind or something, cause im doing some pretty general searches on my local eshop and i cant seem to find what looks like it would be good for this job.

3 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

Also repaste, and new thermal pads.

Thermal pads? Do i put this on top of my cpu and the thermal paste on top of it? Could i just clean the top of my cpu with some ethyl alcohol with some napkin, let it dry and put the thermal paste on top? 

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21 minutes ago, yellowhawk said:

Got any brand names in mind or something, cause im doing some pretty general searches on my local eshop and i cant seem to find what looks like it would be good for this job.

Thermal pads? Do i put this on top of my cpu and the thermal paste on top of it? Could i just clean the top of my cpu with some ethyl alcohol with some napkin, let it dry and put the thermal paste on top? 

Thermal pads are for the vram, mosfets, and everything else thats not a cpu.

yeah, you can just clean with alchohol and put some thermal paste.

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