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title: Friendly reminder to clean your NUC's fan
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author: Yarmo Mackenbach
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slug: nuc-fan-cleaning
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date: "2020-06-08 13:35:15"
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published: true
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[Intel NUCs](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc.html) make for some great low-entry-barrier low-power-consumption servers and homelabs. I have three NUCs at home, two of which have played a server role. They span several generations: a 5i3, a 7i7 and a 8i5.
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And they all have one thing in common: sooner or later, their fans clog up with dust, they heat up, they make more noise and perform worse.
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If you haven't cleaned the fan in a while, your best bet is to open the NUC up and clean the fan and the exhaust.
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To prevent having to open a NUC up too often, I bought a few cans of compressed air and regularly blow air through the device. I'm also looking into placing air filters near the air intake.
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*Can you tell when compressed air was applied to the NUC?*
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