PC cooling help

[Danny-boy]

This may not be the best advice for everyone, so take it with a grain of salt.

Since around 2002 whenever I get a new case/pc the very first thing I do is take off the side panel and just never put it back on. I've never had a serious issue with dust since I started that. Sure, dust goes in, but it goes out just as easily. With the case closed up, dust goes in and then stays in till you clean it.

Also super convenient for making hardware changes.

A big downside is it's easier to accidentally spill something liquidy inside the case and that's bad.

When I did my lastest rebuild, I just took a piece of plywood, maybe 24" x 30" or so and attached the motherboard and whatnot right to it and it's just sitting on a shelf. Been that way close to a year now.

Although, I will probably build a legit wooden box with hinges and a handle or handles soon to make it more portable.

Something reminiscent of this ->
https://img0.etsystatic.com/025/0/737843...0_j4d0.jpg

I was going to mention just replacing the stock coolers but that's been covered pretty well.

This is a really silly idea, cases are designed so that cold air is sucked in through the front grates as hot air is blown out the back of the case, taking off the side of the case will completely mess up the air flow of the system and temperatures will rise.

Not only this a ton more dust will move into the CPU/GPU fans and get caught there and make your heat problems worse.

This isn't even getting into the health and safety aspect of small children/pets touching the fans inside the PC or getting an electric shock, it is also easier to spill drinks onto the electronics etc.



Before you invest in a £99999999999999 mega ice cooler that comes with an industrial grade extraction fan please try what I did.

A while back when I had my AMD CPU (this problem ofc doesn't occur with just AMD, it just so happens that I had an AMD CPU then), I would notice the fan being horridly loud and occasionally my pc would even crash. After hours of testing drivers and bios fan settings (where I noticed my CPU was reaching 100 degrees centigrade before crashing the PC) I decided to take my PC apart and looked at the CPU. All the thermal paste had dried up.

I recommend buying some thermal paste and applying that to your CPU as this is likely the cause of your issues (because with a lack of thermal paste the CPU retains a lot of the heat instead of it passing to the heat sink, thus the CPU would get really hot really quick and the fan would go into super-loud mode). Applying a bit of thermal paste will improve the the rate at which the CPU transfers heat to the heat sink therefore reducing the need for the fan to spin at 1000000000000 times a second causing a very horrible sound. Ultimately, your system will be running cooler and quieter.

I personally recommend buying some thermal paste from this website, I often use them myself to buy computer parts (Although depending on where you live buying from here may not be an option, for reference I live in the UK): http://www.dabs.com/search?q=thermal%20paste