How To Clean A Graphics Card Without Compressed Air

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My Gpu is quite dusty, it's nearly caked in the heatsink and on the fans.

Is there any way to effectively and safely clean out the dust without the use of a can of compressed air? Or is buying one more effective? I would rather not go out to buy a can.

If it is the only way to clean the gpu would it also be more effective to take the gpu out and clean it?

Thanks- Elite

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I use toothpicks and cotton swabs/q-tips dipped in rubbing alcohol. Toothpick for loosening and swabs for dust removal.

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I use toothpicks and cotton swabs/q-tips dipped in rubbing alcohol. Toothpick for loosening and swabs for dust removal.

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I use toothpicks and cotton swabs/q-tips dipped in rubbing alcohol. Toothpick for loosening and swabs for dust removal.

It'd be quite hard to reach in there though, would it be safe to use a small brush? people have said that there may be static but...

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Even if you take off the heatsink it won't really be more accessible. I just clean the exposed spots on GT240 since it was a small fan, but on all my new video cards the fan slot is much larger.

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i use an unused paint brush

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i use an unused paint brush

Cannot that contain static? Also if I take out my gpu and clean it, can just putting it back in normally mess with my drivers where the pc tries to re-detect a new gpu? or does it not affect it at all?

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you can use canned air if you want. i;ve been using paint brush since forever, never had any issues. Well, im not saying it does not have static, i dont know, but it gets the job done. esp the back of the gpu where the dust usually falls, yeah i brush that area.
if you have blower, that should work.

always be careful though

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always be careful though

It's the gigabyte windforce cooler. The heatsink has dust nearly caked on, also on the back of the fans near the heatsink. I could use a brush but it'd be pretty hard to reach inside there.

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toothpicks as told above should work, just be careful. those chunks should come right off in chunks

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