How often do you clean your pc?

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  1. JuMpErFLY

    JuMpErFLY Minimodder

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    Just wondered how often people get rid of dust etc from their pc. Today I took all my fans out, and the heatsink, all the cd drives and the front panel of my case and got rid of all the dust. My temps have now dropped over 10 degrees under load!
     
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  2. webbyman

    webbyman Hax.

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    lol my dad motherboard dropped by about 10 and the processor dropped by about 30*c :jawdrop: :hehe:

    im going to start cleaning them about once every couple of months now though :baby:
     
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  3. slater

    slater Mummy Says Im Special

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    When ever im bord. (like once a month)

    I normaly do a total rebuild every 6 months or so. Otherwise i just blow out the inside/radiator and wipe down the shiney bits :D

    slater..
     
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  4. Stompy

    Stompy What's a Dremel?

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    I give it a quick dust every time I have it open (pretty often)
     
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  5. Spiral Architect

    Spiral Architect Cooked on Phonics

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    Never. Guess i should somewhen.
     
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  6. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    Never.

    All passively cooled so no fans to suck dust in :)
     
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  7. Sc0rian

    Sc0rian Here comes the farmer

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    damn.. about once every 2 weeks or so..
     
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  8. Kameleon

    Kameleon is watching you...

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    I take some compressed air to my radiator and fan grills every so often...perhaps once or twice every 6 months.
     
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  9. k3nn

    k3nn What's a Dremel?

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    generally whenever i have a fan or heatsink off i clean it but i tend to go for a proper clean every couple months
     
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  10. Highland3r

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    Whenever I CBA.... hadnt done it for ~ 7 months... the front intake was like a carpet, totally fluffed over...
    Temps have actually gone up since cleaning o_O added some grill over the intakes tho, so thats probably why...
     
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  11. TMM

    TMM Modder

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    whenever i can see dust on my heatsink :p
     
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  12. play_boy_2000

    play_boy_2000 It was funny when I was 12

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    I should clean mine more ( 3x 92mm fans 1x80mm all intake). My case gets very dusty very easy, so i could clean it ever day, but once ever few months suffices.
     
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  13. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    Since I got my Phong, which has an intake filter I haven't needed to clean the inside at all. The filter gets a quick clean every couple weeks.
     
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  14. 486hawk

    486hawk What's a Dremel?

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    I wonder if anyone has tried to use one of these?
    I have never looked at these up close but I wonder what kind of air flow you could get out of one of these and, if it would muffle some of the noise from a fan.

    :thumb:
     
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  15. Shadowed_fury

    Shadowed_fury Minimodder

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    I can bet it wouldn't be good.
     
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  16. Pistol

    Pistol Guest

    Think about the sucking power of an engine...the airflow is going to be good through that kind of filter.

    Now think about the paltry 40cfm you will get AT MAX from ANY standard PC fan.

    K&N filter is useless unless you have it on your car. No PC fan can suck much air through those. It would, however, be insanely clean inside the case.
     
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  17. DeathAwaitsU

    DeathAwaitsU I'm Back :D

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    nahhh, my tornado does 138cfm :p .

    Death
     
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  18. theflinger

    theflinger What's a Dremel?

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    I haven't cleaned my case out since I built it. almost 6 months now.
    I have an awful lot of fans so I will be doing it soon, but I want to get off my butt and buy the rest of the stuff I want to put in the machine first ;)

    Including air filters ;D
     
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