News How to Keep Your CPU Running Cool in Windows

[Admin]

A little preventative action can keep your PC running cool and smooth.

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[Colif]

I have been using paint brushes to clean case fans for years now. I didn't expect to see it in a guide.
It means I can clean PC in place and not have to move it as much. Person I live with doesn't like smell of compressed air so I would have to take PC outside to use a can, and the cans never seem to last long enough. Need to do it soon and blow dust out of radiator I guess. liquid temp seems to have risen a little in 2 years.

 

[brandonjclark]

No mention of downclocking?

Sorry if I missed it, but down-clocking is a VERY effective way to keep your CPU running cool. If you lower the max CPU to 98 or 99% that's a major drop in temps.

 

[s997863]

So much power feels wasted due to bad & inefficient programming nowadays. On a dual core laptop (circa 2012), Just try opening a Youtube video. On any browser. Your can feel the poor old computer's pain as it struggles to open pages, and the fans start whirring like hair dryers. Then try downloading the same video and play it on MPC-HC for about one-tenth the RAM/CPU usage, with cool quiet fans. I don't know what Youtube is doing but it's a bloated resource hog, and there is no choice of a "lite" or "simple" UI in settings.
Same with Gmail standard view vs basic html.
And so many games will cause a wierd high frequency hiss from my cpu on their menu screens & options screens because some idiot didn't cap the framerate, which shoots up to 1000+ FPS regardless of your VSYNC settings, and you wind up using a 3rd party app like Bandicam just to stop that hiss. And this isn't just some indie Unity garbage; I'm talking about Crysis 1. Until you patch it to version 1.1, no in-game settings or GPU panel options, nor editing INI files is going to fix those menu screens.

 

[TerryLaze]

So much power feels wasted due to bad & inefficient programming nowadays. On a dual core laptop (circa 2012), Just try opening a Youtube video. On any browser. Your can feel the poor old computer's pain as it struggles to open pages, and the fans start whirring like hair dryers. Then try downloading the same video and play it on MPC-HC for about one-tenth the RAM/CPU usage, with cool quiet fans. I don't know what Youtube is doing but it's a bloated resource hog, and there is no choice of a "lite" or "simple" UI in settings.

All the other things I agree with but this one is actually a good thing they are doing, all of the video codecs are made to be run on (i)gpus that will use a lot less energy to play the videos than any CPU could ever do it.
You can run youtube fine on the cheapest slowest arm device because of this.
Even for you 2012 laptop there is a pretty decent chance it has a GPU capable of enabling hardware acceleration.