Hi, On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:29:28 -0700 Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Zoran Kolic <zko...@sbb.rs> wrote: > > I always remind folks to blow out the heat sink on laptops about one a > year. Dust is a great insulator and laptops often collect a lot more I never did this on a laptop as all of mine where build in a way that dust could not collect. So, it depends very much on the model. > dust than office systems, though my office system started dying during > buildworld last week and blowing out the CPU heat sink fixed it up, > but it had been sitting around for almost three years collecting dust. I do this every year on my desktop. The temperature drops then by 10K. You can use the CPU temperature as an indicator when a cleaning is needed. But blowing does not work on my machine. I really have to take screw driver and tweezers to get the work finally done. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
