{"id":670,"date":"2015-09-24T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/?p=670"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T19:53:27","slug":"cleaning_4890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/2015\/670\/cleaning_4890\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering my GPU temperature by 20 degrees – The cleaning of an ASUS Radeon 4890"},"content":{"rendered":"

With pictures, not too much text, and an exciting “Woops my computer won’t start, what have I done?!”<\/p>\n

Removed the card from my case and set to work taking it apart by simply removing every screw I could see, dusting along the way.<\/p>\n

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Got the card apart fairly easily all things considered. Went into the heatsink and removed a good layer of dust. Things are running quite a bit cooler for me now!<\/p>\n

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After removing the duty with some tweezers, I carefully put it back together again and went to boot up my computer. Though the computer wouldn’t even POST so I was a little worried there. Some tinkering later, I re-seated the RAM and she was fine! I had taken the RAM out to have a look at some part numbers, but wasn’t sure why it needed to be re-seated.<\/p>\n

Results (pictures to come later): 20 degrees cooler across the board, 70 to 50 idle, 80 to 60 at ~50% load and 90 to 70 at ~100% load.<\/p>\n

Success!<\/p>\n

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With pictures, not too much text, and an exciting “Woops my computer won’t start, what have I done?!” Removed the card from my case and set to work taking it apart by simply removing every screw I could see, dusting along the way.   Got the card apart fairly easily all things considered. Went into … Continue reading “Lowering my GPU temperature by 20 degrees – The cleaning of an ASUS Radeon 4890”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[75,19],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-ati","tag-hardware2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}