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I realise it's probably slightly off topic, but has anyone got a good way to defluff these cpu coolers with these close mounted plates (like the Dark Rock 2).

I had to try and clean out my Noctua NH-D14 at the weekend and tried all kinds of things (including vacuum cleaner+clean paint brush and "canned air").

Had a quick Google and came across various suggestions, including demounting the heatsink and soaking it in the washing up bowl (which even I'm not daft enough to try!).

I don't quite follow how these coolers are rated by wattage. Surely power ratings are calculated using surface area/heat dissipation data, but also temperature gradient? So a "90W" cooler would actually be able to capably cool 130+W processors if used at a low enough ambient temperature?

Which begs the question, is there a standard CPU temperature that is acceptable, and a standard case temperature that is used?

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Originally Posted by crossy

I realise it's probably slightly off topic, but has anyone got a good way to defluff these cpu coolers with these close mounted plates (like the Dark Rock 2).

I had to try and clean out my Noctua NH-D14 at the weekend and tried all kinds of things (including vacuum cleaner+clean paint brush and "canned air").

Had a quick Google and came across various suggestions, including demounting the heatsink and soaking it in the washing up bowl (which even I'm not daft enough to try!).

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I just do exactly what you did above. Can't see that there's much else you can do.