Keep it clean

[Kremmen]

I have noticed over the last week that the front fan on my Thermaltake Soprano has been 'giving it some'. I assumed it was the hot weather as it is located in a south facing room which does get hot regardless of the outside temp.

Having a look last night the inside of the front dust cover and the filter was totally blocked. There must have been a good quarter inch of dust on the filter.

Must clean that out more often :)

[Taxation]

thats quite a bit of dust there matey

[Chewie]

Um as a rule, i *valet* all the pc's i come in contact with, at least once every 6 months.
This includes:
Remove HSF, blow through with Compressed air (airbrush and cylinder from fratton model shop) before cleaning cp and re-fitting.
Clean and Re-paste any removable heatsinks (vga/northbridge)
Strip front panel to hoover out all dust.
Take side panels off (where possible) to remove dust.
Clean (brush and hoover) all case fans.

Yea, its a labour of love, but for what, mine, me mums, me niece/nephews and their mums machine, its worth it to give it a clean up. Thats normally when they ask whats going wrong etc.

Oh, and her mums too, which incidentally, they just knackered again and thank god its too far t ogo and have to work on it :wink:

[djgandy]

I hoover mine every few weeks or so, else it turns into a dust box.

[Kremmen]

That 'was' a load of dust but the tower is on a wooden 'shelf' only about 4 inches off the carpeted floor.

Plus we have warm air heating which is far more dusty than conventional radiators.

And reason No 3 is that it is in the main room with more dust creating traffic.

It's going to get checked every month now - not difficult as I keep the second stage door unlocked anyway.

[novanick]

I get a can of compressed air and spray,then get a old toothbrush to scoop out the dust.

My old Dell desktop has some much dust it will overheat! And the heatsink you can't take off.

[Danno]

you should see some of the computers i had to work on at my last job about 8 years ago, some of them made me feel sick.

at my old job they used to get a lot of second hand computers in from banks, schools and other big companies. some of the computers were about 5 or 6 years old (a lot of 286 and 386 systems) and had never been opened. when i opened them they were about 3 quarters full of dust :?.

[Taxation]

you should of seen if you could of gotten some bank codes from them , like the nigerians are doing with second hand hard drives