Bonney
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Noticed lately the fan is constantly on, and there is a lot oh heat coming from the tower. Is there anything that can be wrong, or anything to be done e.g. fitting a larger fan/cleaning it out?
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Russ
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probably needs a good hoover, take the side of and have a look
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Bonney
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Its been there for over 2 years now and has never been mooved, Does sound a bit muffled with something
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Cosmo
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ice cubes 
Give it a good clean, make sure all the fans are working properly and not just the case fans.
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Andrew
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Give the fans a bit of a clean.
Does it crash a lot? CPU could be getting a bit fucked.
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dannymccann
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As already said hoover the inside out, be careful around the smaller components like bits on the motherboard. If you look there should be a fan sitting on top and a big metal square that is made up of lots of thin sheets of metal, that is you heatsink and there will be shiteloads of crap stuck in there so get the hoover around all the sides of it. While its open (AFTER YOU HAVE FINISHED HOOVERING) turn it all on and inspect the fans to make sure they are all spinning. If you want get close enough to each of them to listen to the amount of noise its making, it could just be a bearing knackered inside and is usually just pull out and replace with a £3 job
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Bonney
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Just gave it a good hoover out, seems a lot quieter now.
It doesnt crash at all, it works perfectly, sometimes it will go a little slow, but other than that its spot on.
Not really up on computers, but i noticed a long board in a yellow socket type of thing with one empty next to it, am i right in thinking this is the memory boadrs? How easy is it to upgrade the memory, is it just plug and play or a lot more complicated?
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Russ
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easy as that mate. what do you have? just check if its ddr or ddr2 and get one the same speed or faster.
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chris_uk
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try download something like nTune it tells you the temps of cpu, gpu, voltages etc..
it will give you an idea whats hot and whats not..
ps.. only for nVidia cards i think.,
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Bonney
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
easy as that mate. what do you have? just check if its ddr or ddr2 and get one the same speed or faster.
Im not that clued up to be honest, Its a packard bell tower that i got from pc world 2 years ago, Cant find any information on it though
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DannyB
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Yeah for a start keep all the fans clean, make sure there is no dust floating around, the fan on your cpu, make sure that is nice and clean. Mine needs doing again as the side of my tower is still off from when I changed the hard drive, I should put it back on really
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Dan Lewis
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theres an app called speen fan, its like ntune but works for all your fans and temp levels.
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dannymccann
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Bonney, for RAM upgrades go to Crucial.com (uk site) and put in the model number of your packard bell computer in the RAM upgrade tool and it will tell you exactly which sticks will fit for you 
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Ash_EP3
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I took my pc apart recently and the amount of dust that was inside   I took the heat shield off of the processor and there was just a lump of dust on top - The best thing is to use a can of air and a hoover
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Bonney
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Cant find mine on that, Its a Packard Bell 753pd
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Andrew
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Run the Memory Scan on Crucial. Will tell you the speed you need and type. Will also tell you what slots you have spare.
http://www.crucial.com/uk/?gclid=CJWq77HO45YCFQuY1QodrhdNOw
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Russ
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I'm gonna guess DDR PC2700
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