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I bought a can of compressed air today, and it's been a while since I have had any of this laying around.

 

After using a fan beside me close to an open window, I have managed to remove pretty much every speck of dust. The worst part was the CPU, and I made sure to get every part of it.

 

My stock Q6600 dropped an even 10C on every core after this. :)

 

I guess this is just a reminder, clean out your PC regularly.

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Same I'm like a clean freak, I crack my case open at least once a month to clean out the dust on the floor on it and recently cleaned and reapplied my CPU's thermal paste. It helps though a lot to manage temps.

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Not really any dust in mine, except for at the bottom of the case and fans. The heatsinks stay fairly clear of dust balls.

 

now i know it's a little immature to say this but hah, balls

 

anyways i don't think it's bad thing to be a "clean freak" and make sure to perform maintenance on ur box, i believe i have fairly decent circulation for mine as it is so :D

i shan't worry about save every so often

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The worst thing is the fans, the fine particulate dust just clings to blades and its a PITA to blow off every spec...

 

Indeed that was the most annoying part. Also the GPU fan, because its so low and I don't want to tilt the can.

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The problem I have with my rig is that I have good enough air flow to where the heavy thicker dust doesn't build on anything in the case, I find its just the very fine thin light stuff that settles on things, and you cant really even blow that stuff off with compressed air. I have to take my whole rig down and go over it with q-tips.

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Indeed that was the most annoying part. Also the GPU fan, because its so low and I don't want to tilt the can.

If you got an air compressor get the attachment that lets you use it to blow air, 100 PSI gets all the dust out.

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