Search results

  1. G

    How clean do you need to be when building?

    This may seem odd, but I was wondering how clean you need to be when building a PC? What if sand, dirt, or crumbs from your hands or clothing fall into your PC while you are working on it? Would that seriously mess up the PC? What do you guys do prior to building a PC? Is it enough to just...
  2. G

    Boxes left on the porch

    The postman delivered a case, power supply, and CPU heatsink to my front door this morning, but they were sitting out all day until I brought them in tonight. The parts are: - Corsair AX750 power supply - Corsair 650D case - Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus heatsink I have a couple of concerns...
  3. G

    Metal flecks/dust inside case

    I opened up my PC case and I noticed that there are these little metal flecks/dust inside the case. They are not big filings, and more like metal dust. To give you an idea of the scope of the problem, I think I counted maybe 10 of them, but maybe there are more underneath the motherboard. There...
  4. G

    Static shock while touching mouse, permanent damage?

    Hi, I was walking across the carpet to my PC (which was on), and I touched the mouse. I think I might have ESD static shocked the mouse, because the mouse pointer stopped moving. I unplugged and replugged the mouse USB cable back in, and now it appears to be working again. I'm not 100&#37...
  5. G

    Safe to clean processor with rubbing alcohol and q-tips?

    Is it safe to clean the gold contacts and sides of a processor using rubbing alcohol? Some thermal compound accidentally got on the sides and the gold contacts of my Core i5 2500K and I would like to clean it off before placing it in the mobo socket. I was thinking of using a q-tip with 99%...
  6. G

    Little bits of metal

    I was unboxing my new XFX 850W power supply today, and put it on the workbench. When I picked it up, I saw tiny metal particles and black shavings were stuck to the power supply. I think some may have even fallen inside the fan of the power supply! I located the source of this stuff. They...