Maintenance of desktop

sillyb0y

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check with you guy,,

normal maintenance will be clean off the dust inside the desktop..

what about the thermal paste on the CPU? need to refill the thermal paste or not? cos thermal paste will dry itself after year right,.
 

bhtan83

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check with you guy,,

normal maintenance will be clean off the dust inside the desktop..

what about the thermal paste on the CPU? need to refill the thermal paste or not? cos thermal paste will dry itself after year right,.

u only need to clean it up and reapply when u see the cpu temp is higher than normal.
 

digishot

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check with you guy,,

normal maintenance will be clean off the dust inside the desktop..

what about the thermal paste on the CPU? need to refill the thermal paste or not? cos thermal paste will dry itself after year right,.
wipe off the old paste from both sides and clean it with isopropyl alcohol using lint free cloth before re-applying the new paste
 

wwenze

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You got see over 9000 PCs in your office block the thermal paste dry up?
 
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