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Possible performance drop due to cleaning fan.
Hi guys,
Past week I did a manual cleaning of my whole cabinet, and also the processor's stock fan that was making a constant sound that fans generally make.
I pulled out the lever for detaching the fan, and did a thorough cleaning of the fan.
After that I blew away the excess dust inside the motherboard, which I regret.
And after fixing it back, without new thermal paste was happy that the sound was gone.
But, now the sound has came back again, which is quite annoying, but can be ignored.
Strangely though, I am experiencing a general performance drop, and slow response of my mouse (Razer Death Adder).
And also the loading time of webpages has increased.
I wanna know if this is happening because of the thermal paste not applied or is it something with my OS ?
Should I apply thermal paste again ? Its been about 2 years since I bought the machine.
Info
My Motherboard (link)
Google Chrome Version 14.0.835.202 m
Windows 7 Ultimate (w/0 SP1)
AMD Phenom II X4 924 with stock fan.
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