In the hottest summer days, does your computer suddenly start shutting down by itself? Have you recently noticed your case overheating and want to know how to cool your PC? It’s not the easiest thing to do but, as they say, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Today I’m going to show you some useful practices to decrease the temperature of your computer and avoid hardware damage during the hottest days but don’t expect magic software. If you want to make your PC case cooler, you have to arm yourself with a screwdriver and proceed manually, the old-fashioned way. Here’s everything explained in detail.
When the heat starts to get heavy, the first thing you need to do if you want to find out how to cool your PC is to open the computer case and remove all the dust inside. The accumulation of dust can create obstructions that prevent your computer from being properly ventilated and consequently cause it to overheat.
Arm yourself with a screwdriver and, making sure to turn off the computer completely, proceed to remove all the screws that hold the case together. Now, remove the side panels of the computer and start removing all the dust you find inside, especially around the fans. Try to be as gentle as possible and, if necessary, in the hard-to-reach corners remove the dirt using a can of compressed air.
Once the cleanup is complete, reassemble the case, turn on the computer, and you should see an immediate improvement. You can monitor the internal temperature of your PC using programs like SpeedFan (I told you about it in my guide on how to change fan speeds, remember?). To be on the safe side, the CPU temperature should not be much higher than 65 degrees.
If cleaning did not bring the desired results, you can try to improve the situation and cool the PC by mounting an additional fan in it. The additional fans cost very little (you can find them on online stores at prices between 5 and 15 euros) and improve air circulation inside the case by capturing the hot air that is released from the CPU heatsink and throwing it out.
This sounds complicated, but I assure you that mounting them is very easy. Just place them with the appropriate hooks along one of the slots on the PC case and connect them to the motherboard (via 3-pin connector) or to the computer’s power cables (via 4-pin connector). For more details, search YouTube videos that explain how to mount additional fans on PCs, there are many in Italian.
If, on the other hand, you want to defend a notebook from the heat, follow the advice I gave you in my article dedicated to how to cool a laptop and you should be able to get through this summer without any major computer problems.