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Old 04-09-2020, 02:36 AM
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A bit of an odd one. Took my HDX card out of my old Mac Pro today, to move it to the new one. It's pretty dusty – dust is caked on the chips. I gave the fan a bit of a blow (actually removed the fan housing and cleaned underneath it, thank goodness I didn't destroy the card!). Any tips for giving it a deeper clean?

(I also wonder with the new Mac's airflow design whether the card might cool better without the fan housing...)
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Removing visible dust is all you need to do
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Compressed air will sort it out pretty quickly. Bunnings & Officeworks sell 'em for a good two or three times the price of WD40, or other petroleum based products that have been mined out of the ground and heavily processed... but a can of it is a handy thing to have around.
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Compressed air will sort it out pretty quickly. Bunnings & Officeworks sell 'em for a good two or three times the price of WD40, or other petroleum based products that have been mined out of the ground and heavily processed... but a can of it is a handy thing to have around.
Fortunately a trip to Bunnings still counts as essential! 😉
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