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and how would you reccommend cleaning it? how much is a can of air? and is a compressor too much pressure?

I usually take it apart, clean each part individually by just blowing it (I have an electric blow-up pump thing that can be reversed), then put it all back together, maybe install some different thermal.

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I guess this is the place to post this, my desktop keeps overheating, and I'm wondering if i need to just clean it or if I should replace the fans all together, and if I should get case fans considering that the stock case no has, or if I should get a new board that fits the CPU I have and a new HAF case, not necessarily Cooler MAster, but they are pretty durn good. I'm saying get a new case and mobo because it's a Dell Optiplex GX620, old computer, but they make custon everything for their stuff, custom fan mounts, custom mounting points on the motherboard, everything, and I want to keep using this computer until college at least, but the overheating is a giant issue, and I want it to stop so I can start upgrading, or should I drop the computer, give it to a younger sibling and build one from the ground, I guess this is a very general topic, but the main issue is overheating, so have it

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I guess this is the place to post this, my desktop keeps overheating, and I'm wondering if i need to just clean it or if I should replace the fans all together, and if I should get case fans considering that the stock case no has, or if I should get a new board that fits the CPU I have and a new HAF case, not necessarily Cooler MAster, but they are pretty durn good. I'm saying get a new case and mobo because it's a Dell Optiplex GX620, old computer, but they make custon everything for their stuff, custom fan mounts, custom mounting points on the motherboard, everything, and I want to keep using this computer until college at least, but the overheating is a giant issue, and I want it to stop so I can start upgrading, or should I drop the computer, give it to a younger sibling and build one from the ground, I guess this is a very general topic, but the main issue is overheating, so have it

Welcome to Linus Tech Tips! The first thing I would do is to thoroughly clean it. If then it's still overheating, then it might be an issue with the PC itself which might be solved with some procedures like re-applying thermal paste. Generally the Optiplex's have pretty good coolers so I'm quite surprised to hear of it overheating.

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If the machine's pretty dusty, it's probably not a bad idea to clean it out. Reapplying thermal paste also probably won't hurt too much.

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Welcome to Linus Tech Tips! The first thing I would do is to thoroughly clean it. If then it's still overheating, then it might be an issue with the PC itself which might be solved with some procedures like re-applying thermal paste. Generally the Optiplex's have pretty good coolers so I'm quite surprised to hear of it overheating.

well it it does have a lot of dust, and I guess I'm going to newegg to get some thermal past for it, might get a antistatic band too, I've never built a computer before, just never had the money for it

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Welcome to Linus Tech Tips! The first thing I would do is to thoroughly clean it. If then it's still overheating, then it might be an issue with the PC itself which might be solved with some procedures like re-applying thermal paste. Generally the Optiplex's have pretty good coolers so I'm quite surprised to hear of it overheating.

and thanks for the welcome, I actually have been on before but I've not been on for a while

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well it it does have a lot of dust, and I guess I'm going to newegg to get some thermal past for it, might get a antistatic band too, I've never built a computer before, just never had the money for it

Antistatic band is just a bunch of stereotypes. You won't mess up anything. I've worked on PC's on carpet while wearing socks.

 

 

and how would you reccommend cleaning it? how much is a can of air? and is a compressor too much pressure?

Can of air is what's recommended. A compressor is perfectly fine with solid components but don't spin fans with it.

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and how would you reccommend cleaning it? how much is a can of air? and is a compressor too much pressure?

I usually take it apart, clean each part individually by just blowing it (I have an electric blow-up pump thing that can be reversed), then put it all back together, maybe install some different thermal.

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Antistatic band is just a bunch of stereotypes. You won't mess up anything. I've worked on PC's on carpet while wearing socks.

 

 

Can of air is what's recommended. A compressor is perfectly fine with solid components but don't spin fans with it.

ok, cool, will make sure to do that, going to tomorrow, its 10:45 PM here

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I usually take it apart, clean each part individually by just blowing it (I have an electric blow-up pump thing that can be reversed), then put it all back together, maybe install some different thermal.

I will make sure to get thermal asap, not gonna get new thermal until I know that's the problem

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umm, I have no way of measuring that, and I donl't know if they make benchmarks for linux based systems

 

There software called psensor for monitoring temps in linux. As for stress/benchmark, doing something stressing should be enough to get good results.

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