Recently I started opening the case and cleaning with compressed air and vacuum. The case itself was not much dirty, but the CPU fan was having a bizarre quantity of dust. I cleaned it out and clean the CPU and heatsink before re-apply some Arctic Silver. What a variation! Previously I was core 0 and 1 idle temps around 40-45 degrees of temperature. It is now expected around 31 and 21 degrees respectively. Not sure why they are not idle at the same temperature however. The GPU idles around 68 yet, but that does not seem dirty to begin with. Will usually vents vacuum cleaner when I do my weekly, but this is the first time I cleaned the inside of the box since I bought the motherboard / cpu / ram from a friend years ago. How often should I remove dust from inside the box? And how long I can go before they must re-apply the TIM?
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