Need noise help with Mac Pro

[msintros]

If anyone has particular suggestions on cleaning, I'd be interested to hear them. I know I can search this and have, but the responders here seem pretty knowledgeable, so if there is something that doesn't usually get mentioned in cleaning guides, I'd love to hear it. I'm assuming compressed air to dislodge the stuff combined with some sort of vacuuming to catch it as it comes off is the way to go, but I've also read that you want to be careful with vacuums because of static discharge risks. Just using compressed air by itself seems a mistake to me, as it's just moving the stuff around and not really removing it. Is it recommended to remove any parts (i.e. hard drives, fan) before doing this, or just try to get the best you can as it is?

 

[pprior]

For the purposes of what you are doing all you need to do is shut the system down then put compressed air straw in the front lower part of the system ( use flashlight to see fans if you don't know where they are). Blow all the CPU dust toward the back of the computer (take side cover off first and if dust bothers you youau want to do this outside ). After that then you can remove r sleds and blow off ram. And a general blast everywhere else inside.

Also fwiw I invested a few years ago in the datavac electric duster. Never buy compressed air again and it's so powerful I just aim it int the front grill turn it imams that's it. Well worth the initial investment.