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here at Linus media group we believe in cleanliness which

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okay so you guys weren't gonna believe that fine so sometimes our stuff gets

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dirty and when it does we always clean it up right away which

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okay you weren't gonna buy that either were you okay well how about this one

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when our graphics cards get so caked up with dust and gunk that gaming

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performance and cooling suffers or they get louder we finally break out the

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cleaning supplies to restore them to their original glory you still with me

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alright so let's do that then

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seen before on consumer storage drives click

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right here to learn more

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so let's start by introducing our graphics cards i actually wanted to find

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ones that were a little bit dirtier than this but my cry for filthy graphics

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cards on twitter didn't yield any results that were any better than the

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two old bitcoin mining cards that taryn had at his house so i went with those of

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the two the 5870 with the rear exhaust cooler seemed like the better bet to

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demonstrate the usefulness of cleaning out a graphics card since its design

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causes there to be a small difficult to access potential bottleneck inside the

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shroud that can essentially prevent air from getting through the heatsink

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by contrast the 6870 has a very open

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cooler design that is both difficult to gunk up and easy to access for cleaning

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so for step one we need to get a baseline reading of how the card is

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doing so we're going to throw on the latest drivers and use a gamer

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application that puts a predictable load on the graphics card so i used the

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skyboxing crisis 3 right here and then

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using MSI afterburner i was able to load up the key performance metrics for this

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test on screen GPU temperature and fan

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speed percentage so we ended up with values of 74 degrees at 39 percent fan

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speed at max step two is going to be to take the card

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off and then add a safe clutter free static free workstation or at least

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outside begin the cleaning process now the easiest fastest way to clean out a

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card is to use a duster can like this and blow out the areas you can reach

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make sure you hold the fan still so that it doesn't over spin because that'll

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burn out the header it's attached to and don't turn the can upside down

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because that's going to blow residue junk all over your card which could

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potentially harm it in the long term with that done we can throw it back on

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the bench and find out if that actually

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did anything all right so our duster can didn't make

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a lick of difference with peaks of 74 degrees and 39 percent fan speed so that

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means one of two things either the card

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is clean enough as it is and required no cleaning in spite of its grungy outward

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appearance or number two we weren't able

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to get enough dust and hair yes hair is a major concern for pet owners out to

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make a difference so it's time to step up our game remove the card from the

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bench again and this time you'll need a tool kit start by removing the screws

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from the back of the card being careful to label them for when you inevitably

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put it back together make sure when you're taking out the four screws

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directly behind the GPU that you remove them in a cross pattern to avoid putting

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extra pressure on one side of the fragile GPU die

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some coolers also have screws in the rear pci cover that will prevent the

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cooler from being removed so watch out for those

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with the screws off you can pull the back plate off the card if applicable

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then flip it over and pull the cooler off the front of the card then remove

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the fan connector be careful not to lose

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or dirty any of the thermal pads on the bottom of the heatsink during this step

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you will need them for reassembly and they cannot be replaced with regular

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thermal compound as you can see this

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doesn't really give us any better access than we already had to the inside of the

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cooler and it's at this point that the details of this how-to guide will differ

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somewhat depending on which card you happen to have so the next step is to

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disassemble the cooler itself by pulling out basically all the screws you can

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find labeling them of course and then popping it apart to reveal the heatsink

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fins that are usually attached to some kind of a solid copper or vapor chamber

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base in modern cards we can see now that our card falls into

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the former just not that dirty in spite of its outward appearance category of

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cards whose cooling performance doesn't improve from being blown out but

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since we're in here we might as well take another run with our blower can

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anyway reassembling the card is as simple as

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doing everything you just did in reverse with one addition make sure you put some

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new thermal compound on the GPU just a little bit will do the trick

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and then with the card reassembled we get our final results 73 degrees and 37

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fan speed a marginal improvement to be

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sure and one that's as likely to be to do with replacing the stock thermal

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compound as removing those two baby dust bunnies that we did from our cooler but

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that doesn't take anything away from the instructional value of this video so if

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your GPU is running hotter than before try out this guide before you junk it

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because especially more modern cards can

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not only run cooler and last longer but can actually run faster thanks to clock

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boosting technologies that activate only when the card is below a certain thermal

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