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Originally Posted by Halcyon
Good thing to do Alien 
I often do it on my case fans too with those cotton wool bud's.
Really helps to lower the temperature. |
Yeah, I do it every now & then, but thankfully my current case has a filter for the front intake fan, so don't need to do the heatsink as often as I had to with the last case.
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Originally Posted by Zeph
I usually unscrew the fan from the heatsink and hoover off the dust tbh
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With my
current CPU fan I don't need to remove it to get at the dust. As the dust mostly tends to accumulate on top of the fins of my heatsink, rather than between them, I used a screwdriver to carefully hook out the larger clumps, then just blasted the rest out with a foot pump [used my hand to pump it though] & some little plastic nozzle adapter thing that came with it [got no other use for it as the pump fits my bike's tires just fine without it].