Jeremy M. Praay wrote:

> On a side note.  My 3200+ had been running at 60C when idle.  It was 
> approaching 70 under load.  I knew that was hotter than it used to be, and 
> it had been getting warmer and warmer over the years.  I figured the 
> heatsink was clogged, but I just kept turning up my fan speed.  Last 
> weekend, I finally decided to clean it out.  It's now running at 45 C idle, 
> with the fan turned all the way down.  I felt both happy and stupid at the 
> same time, because it was so easy to do.  I had forgotten that it would run 
> with a temp that low. 
> 
> 

Yeah, but that wasn't it with mine.  I cleaned that sucker routinely. 
Even played with attaching rolled tubes of paper to the dust-buster and 
had a special hogs hair bush that I kept by the computer for the 
purpose.  (A Manhattan tenement apartment is a fairly dusty place)  I 
routinely ran the thing with the case open and a 21" room fan pointed 
directly into it.  Now the room fan sits, purposeless, in the corner of 
the room.

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