Clean out everything inside - all of the dust, and clean each of the blades if possible I used a Q-tip with isopropyl alcohol. Then just reach into the fan and grab the rotor and pull straight up gently and it will come off. You do need to separate the metal plate on the top of the fan from the plastic housing just use some tweezers or the tip of a knife and gently pry it up. This does not require you to remove the fan from the NUC. To oil the fan, you will need to remove the rotor from the fan. Personally I would because 73C at idle is not acceptable and that really needs to be fixed. iFixIt has a video teardown of the Skull Canyon if you want to try this:īut you may not feel comfortable doing this. I haven't done this on my NUCs yet though I have for other computers. ![]() Ordinarily I'll bet that all you need to do is open that case and blow out any and all dust buildup you see around and in the fans and cooler but it seems you've done that already? The next best option is to remove the cooler from the CPU, clean the thermal paste from both, and then re-paste them. When my fans are clogged, my NUCs have a hard time getting below 60C and easily vault right to 100C, until I blow everything out and then it's down to 45C again. 100C is the thermal limit for these CPUs. All My NUCs hang out around 45C at idle, though any high 100% CPU+GPU load will send NUCs to 80-90C. Sry for the delay responding! 73C at idle is way too high. I know just about the bare minimum to get by – this is my 2nd NUC and I just love them because they are great bang for the buck and I detest paying more to buy from a PC vendor and still getting bloatware. Thanks in advance for the help, and apologies for any errors – I'm not very well versed in PC building, even at this introductory level.
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