(February 23, 2016 at 10:11 pm)abaris Wrote: You have at least one point, benny. I didn't blow out the case in a few months. The result was a dirty fan. I spent my last milliliters of compressed air on it and speedfan shows a higher rotation already when the CPU heats up. Temperatures are still not ideal but in check. Have to buy another bottle of compressed air.
How good is the air flow in your case? Even with a great deal of dust this sounds unusual.
Its been a while since I bought a premade pc so this is purely hypothetical and probably crazy but does anyone know if its possible that the software pre-installed on it could contain safeguards to prevent upgrading? It just strikes me that if I was behind the company making the thing I might be inclined to have drivers that maintain performance of the hardware installed on the system... and *only* that hardware. After all; whos going to buy my new systems if they can easily upgrade the old ones?
If that were a possibility perhaps backing up important files and reinstalling the operating system could provide a fix?
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