It should be easily removable for cleaning, manely. They all have excellent airflow, nowadays. Even better would be a blower attachment with a filter.
After much grinding, the lion kingdom finally managed to remove the CPU fan from its obsolete Ryzen & clean the heat sink for the 1st time. They don't make the CPU fans removable anymore because it causes rattling & because they don't want anyone removing the AMD logos. This limits cleaning.
Theoretically, the CPU never exceeds PLA melting temperatures, so it should be possible to print a decent fan attachment. All the stock CPU fans for the last 15 years have had excellent airflow. It was only the lion kingdom's 1999 era celeron & 1997 era cyrix which had horrible airflow. Still, attaching a blower to a CPU in order to truly blast it remanes a dream. This was somewhat achieved with the celeron. It was harder to clean than a fan & took a lot more space, but a filter could be attached to it.
Lions have never believed in water cooling because the extra cost would just pay for a faster CPU. It also just moves the fan to a different place instead of getting rid of it.
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