Well, simply my computer heats up lately, I want to take care of it.
I thought about it, maybe I can not buy some cooling device like a fan or water cooling and use something in the house, like a normal fan and activate it near the PC.
Anyone got any creative cooling solutions that can be made from household equipment?
What do you mean your computer heats up, do you mean the CPU or the temp in the case?
If it's the CPU, take off the heatsink (if your able) it's most likey full of dust.
clean the thermal paste off of the heatsink and cpu with isopropyl/rubbing alcohol and a lint free rag or a coffee filter, reapply some new paste and stick the heatsink back on.
Get an old toothbrush, if you have one, or something similar, loosen up all the dust and vacuum it out of the heatsink.
*NOTE* you will have to take the fan off of the heat sink first.
If your not comfortable taking off the heatsink you can just take the fan off of it and clean it that way, still using the toothbrush and vacuum.
You can vacuum your computer if your careful of a few things, namely static.
If you have a
crevice tool with your vacuum, it works pretty good
when your vacuuming inside a computer make sure you don't actually touch any of the parts inside just hover above them to suck up any loose dust.
If you have two vacuums and one is able to reverse i.e. blow that works great, you can have one blowing and one sucking........ya. Just be careful, the pressure from a blowing vaccum can be fairly high and can damage parts in your computer. And as suggested in some of the replies, you can also use a air compressor or a can of compressed air. A suck, blow combo works very well.
If your just gonna blow out all the dust, take outside because otherwise dust will be everywhere.
Also check any fans for dust, the good ol' toothbrush comes in handy for cleaning dust off the fan blades as well.
Btw, what do you have for cooling?
) If were you I would get something to just blow the dust off.
