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Clean the blades of the fan as much as possible, getting every speck of dust out. This is important so that dust doesn't get blown from the fan blades into other parts of the computer. For fans with heat sinks below them, clean off the dust from the heat sink as well.

HenryJohn wrote:For fans with heat sinks below them, clean off the dust from the heat sink as well.

I'd love to see you find me a cpu cooler without a heat sink.

Brothulhu wrote:

HenryJohn wrote:For fans with heat sinks below them, clean off the dust from the heat sink as well.

I'd love to see you find me a cpu cooler without a heat sink.

Lol! There's one type called a phase change cooler, don't think it uses a heat sink: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/a-cl ... em-and-it/

This is expensive and probably only useful to an extreme overclocker.

There's also a fanless dust free cooler in the works: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/8971 ... is-the-fan

Looks pretty good, the heatsink spins so fast that dust doesn't settle.

VirtualMark wrote:

Brothulhu wrote:

HenryJohn wrote:For fans with heat sinks below them, clean off the dust from the heat sink as well.

I'd love to see you find me a cpu cooler without a heat sink.

Lol! There's one type called a phase change cooler, don't think it uses a heat sink: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/a-cl ... em-and-it/

This is expensive and probably only useful to an extreme overclocker.

There's also a fanless dust free cooler in the works: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/8971 ... is-the-fan

Looks pretty good, the heatsink spins so fast that dust doesn't settle.

Forgot about phase change cooling, woops. We have a fanless heatsink on our HTPC at home to reduce noise, it doesn't spin though as that would defeat the purpose in our case

In case anyone else calls me out; the radiator for a watercooled system is a heatsink, mineral oil submerged systems still use heatsinks and fans and the nitrogen in liquid nitrogen cooled systems (lol) is poured into a heatsink

I can recommend a product called Arctic Silver, it is a very high quality thermal bonding compound and have used it when I built DIY pc's in the past worth having it IMO. cheers

+1 on Artic Silver thermal paste. A good fan like a Noctua (http://www.bhmag.fr/images/img4/noctua_ ... 1366_1.jpg) helps too.
With this you can manage an idle temperature below 30°C, and probably not above 50°C/60°C in full charge.