Clean Is Good

[jammin]

Thought as if was getting towards the end of the year that I would give the box a quick dust down.

 

As I hadn't cleaned the heatsink properly in a while I thought I should be thorough.

 

Now I do clean it quite regularly, just without taking it out (I don't like doing it, it's awkward and those thermalright fan clip things are annoying).

 

Anywho, it was a bit dirtier than I expected.

 

 

Now that its sparkly clean again my idle temp has dropped from 43c to 39c. Not bad for just a bit of cleaning (oh and re-seating it of course)

 

 

I also took the opportunity to clean the wires up a bit.. though I know they could still be better. Just wish my psu didn't have so many wires coming out of it.

[JerrDogg77]

ya i need to clean mine, i havent cleaned it since i built it in july. im gonna need like 4 cans of air lol. im definately gonna take pics.

[anthony]

hmm yeh thats a good idea, il clean mine today ... though I just cleaned it 2 weeks ago its amazinly dusty

[fire_storm]

keeping a case clean keeps the temps down. Thats why I have to clean my case every week.

[DarkScorpion]

Its even harder to clean if you have 2 120mm fans on your sidepanel blowing air right onto your mobo

[tharealmegaman]

i remember i saw a pic of a comp that hadn't been cleaned in over 3 years..it looked like a grey dog when they opened it haha.

 

i try to clean it at least every 2 weeks. whenever i need to open it for some reason, i just take the time to clean it.

[Byron]

I just cleaned mine out last night, and it took FOREVER to clean out everything. I did all the fans, (120's blow a load of dust), and put as ceramique on my 6800GT instead of the grease they had on it. Also cleaned out heatsink/fan, and put new ceramique on that also. Overall temps went down 4-6C depending on the component.

[shervin2]

See if your like me yo buy an Air Purifer when you buy your Air Conditioner that way you get 80% less dust!

Edited December 29, 2004 by shervin2

[Whitelightning]

Man, if my system was ever that dirty I would freak...I clean my computers atleast once a week if not more....All that dust would kill me....

[Hyper Threaded]

I try to keep my case reasonably clean... Usually every few months I will clean out all the dust, I also have a filter for the front fan and an air purifier which helps some.

 

I remember on my old Gateway that I had almost two years ago, I never cleaned it out. When I finally cleaned it out, it was nasty. Huge wads of dust covering the heatsinks.

 

Come to think of it, I haven't cleaned out my Swifty in a while... I didn't bother when I put in the new case.

[kobalt]

wow nice job Jammin, really clean case