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Computer Overheating?

June 19th, 2009

With the summer on the way (and hopefully this year will be nice and warm) its time to look at your computer and perhaps give it a good internal clean.

Even in the cleanest environment computers do draw in a lot of dust and over time this dust starts to clog up your PC. Over time your processor heatsink will gradually get totally clogged as will the graphics card fan.

Summer tends to see the most problems with hardware failures as the combination of dust and the increase in ambient temperatures cause the internal temperature of your computer to rise well above normal levels, which in turn puts a strain on system components that lead to failure.

One of the worse components that is affected by the heat is of course your computers hard drive and an increase in temperature can cause hard drive degradation and subsequently data loss requiring data recovery.

If your computer has not been cleaned for quite a while or is starting to get hot already we’ll be able to carry out some computer maintenance on your PC to ensure you stand less chance of your system overheating in the warmer summer months.

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