GPU getting 96 Degrees Celsius in game?

[RageSaul]

So, I was playing a fairly medium graphical game and I realise my GPU fan was suddenly speeding up every now and then. I looked at my temps and it said 96 celsius so I shut that game off immediately. It idles at 50c. Is this because it is too dusty? I built my PC a year ago and haven't cleaned it at all so do you think I should buy a dust cleaner?

This is a picture of my PC internals: http://s1301.photobucket.com/user/RageSaul/media/IMG_1798_zps70568c99.jpg.html

So what should I do? Buy a dust cleaner and clean that thing out? How would I clean it? Just hold it in front of me and spray the air in short bursts into the fans?

 

[Rick Kraster]

take of your cooler wipe of all the termal paste from both cooler and your cpu clean your cooler you can use vacuum cleaner/long brush for that than put on some new termal paste and put it back on and than look how hot is becomes

 

[moozilbee]

Dear god that looks dusty.

Buy a can of compressed air for a few bucks and spray the can into the air for a couple seconds (not into the PC) to clear out any residue inside the tube and make sure it's shooting out air okay. Spray it till it sprays clean air without making any weird sputtering noises or shooting out any liquid from the can. Once you've done that, hold the can upright and spray in short bursts a few inches away from your PC, try and get all the dust out of any little parts of your PC. Make sure not to touch any components, if you do have to touch them wear a antistatic wristband or touch a door handle beforehand to dissapate static electricity. When you spray a fan with air, hold the fan still with one hand to avoid turning it and damaging the motor.

Once your PC is clear of dust it should give much lower temperatures.

 

[moozilbee]

@Rick Kraster, he said GPU, not CPU, so cleaning out the CPU cooler won't have any effect.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

yes.... looks like lotsa dust and , worse, pet hair in there.

Blow that sucker out.

As for static discharges, you want to touch grounded metal. Your case works assuming it's plugged in and attached to a grounded outlet. Cans are OK but if you have an typical car, home or portable air compressor handy, that will do a better job.

 

[RageSaul]

Dear god that looks dusty.

Buy a can of compressed air for a few bucks and spray the can into the air for a couple seconds (not into the PC) to clear out any residue inside the tube and make sure it's shooting out air okay. Spray it till it sprays clean air without making any weird sputtering noises or shooting out any liquid from the can. Once you've done that, hold the can upright and spray in short bursts a few inches away from your PC, try and get all the dust out of any little parts of your PC. Make sure not to touch any components, if you do have to touch them wear a antistatic wristband or touch a door handle beforehand to dissapate static electricity. When you spray a fan with air, hold the fan still with one hand to avoid turning it and damaging the motor.

Once your PC is clear of dust it should give much lower temperatures.

Alright, I'm ordering a can of compressed air now. So do I just hold it upright or can I spray it upside down to get to hard to reach parts? Also will spraying the dust just move it into the air and let it re settle in the case again? Thanks so much for your help though.

 

[Rick Kraster]

@Rick Kraster, he said GPU, not CPU, so cleaning out the CPU cooler won't have any effect.

akward....... lol my bad

 

[moozilbee]

Do not hold it upside down whatever you do! If you hold it upside down it will spray out liquid and short out components inside your PC, so very bad idea 😀

Some of the dust will just resettle in the case, but most of it will be blown outside of your PC, and it will get rid of the big clumps of dust in certain places. Because a lot of dust will be blown into the air, you will probably want to do it on a table outside or something similar!

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The liquid inside is hazardous to your health but generally non conductive....so best not to turn upside down unless in well ventilated area.

 

[RageSaul]

Ah, ok. So I basically just take the case off, spray around the case keeping the can upright in short small bursts? If I take the GPU out on its own and spray the fans directly will it clean it out or just push the dust further up? That's what I plan to do.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Yes..... I have all my kids do:

Monthly - Blow Out Fan Filters
Quarterly - Blow out case/
Yearly - Take out GFX cards and clean or drain water cooling loops / flush and replace coolant.

 

[RageSaul]

Alright then, thanks for all your help everyone, hopefully this will fix my GPU. If it continues to overheat I guess I gotta buy a new one >.< That's really annoying since it is so expensive. Also it bends slightly as you can see in the picture.

 

[moozilbee]

Yes, that's how you use the air can.
Taking the GPU out will help, you don't have to do it but it will allow you to clean the GPU more thoroughly. A GPU is pretty much a piece of material (whatever graphics cards are made out of) with a metal heatsink stuck to the bottom of it, and a fan and plastic heatsink cover on the heatsink. So you can't really spray furthur into the graphics card, if you spray into the heatsink it should blow out any dust, same with the fans, and if it blows out big clumps of dust you can then just get rid of them.

 

[RageSaul]

Alright, a bit patronizing at the start but thanks xD

 

[moozilbee]

XD Oops, wasn't meant to sound patronizing!

Hope it works out! Make sure to pick a best answer.

 

[RageSaul]

Oh ok 😛

I think I might pick a best answer after I've cleaned my case (Monday) because I might run into some trouble and need to come back to this thread.

 

[moozilbee]

Sure! Probably a better idea as you can give a better opinion on what answer was most helpful.

 

[RageSaul]

Yeah