I am gaming on a 1 year old dell atm that has a 8800gtx in it. It's not my pc but the owner said i could open it and clean some dust out, the warranty ran out last month. It has been kept in a room where people smoked and lots of dust gathered. I have used compressed air before to clean cpu heatsink fans that were nearly clogged with sticky dust (smoke rez and dust together) and it worked absolutely perfect, brought a few old P3s and P4s back from being nearly dead.
I have never used compressed air on a gpu before though and don't know enough about video cards to do it without asking if it is safe. I am just kind of worried that maybe there are some very delicate connections i should watch for or ect. Also i was curious about how to turn the fan up on the 8800gtx, i read somewhere that they came from the factory running the fan at 30%. I would really love to crank it up because noise is no problem here at all.
I have never used compressed air on a gpu before though and don't know enough about video cards to do it without asking if it is safe. I am just kind of worried that maybe there are some very delicate connections i should watch for or ect. Also i was curious about how to turn the fan up on the 8800gtx, i read somewhere that they came from the factory running the fan at 30%. I would really love to crank it up because noise is no problem here at all.
