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Are there any cases that are designed to keep out / filter dust?

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Infohawk

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The thing I hate most about hardware is dust. There's nothing I hate more than cleaning computer components and fans. Are there any cases that are designed to filter out dust?
 
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but with a little work it shouldn't be that difficult to modify a case to be very effective at filtering dust. It'd just be a matter of creating a positive pressure airflow setup and then installing dust filters on all your intake fans.

You can do it with a negative pressure setup as well, but it's more difficult, as air/dust will be pulled in through any tiny openings in the case. You'd have to go through and make sure you put electrical tape (or duct tape, whatever) over any openings that aren't filtered.

Basically, the idea is to force all inlet airflow through filters. 🙂
 
Duct taping all the openings seems hard. My current Antec Sonata has dust on all the front parts like the drive bays, power button areas. Seems like it would be impossible to hermetically seal any old case. 😕
 
Yeah probably not practical or possible to completely seal the case, but the big thing would be filtering all the large intakes. You'll inevitably get some dust through openings you wouldn't expect (I get crazy dust buildup around the tiny openings on the I/O shield), but the bulk will be through the large openings, so filtering those will help a ton.
 
Use positive air pressure idea to pump air into case so air will be exiting all the tiny openings. All you have to do is filter the large fans then. I don't know about Cooler Master's newer cases but their older mid-range line had a filter on the front. Otherwise, you can buy filters for fans or just make them yourself.
 
P180/P182 Have dust filters for the front 2 fan intakes. You can make your own with anything from the filter pads used in air filters to the mesh used in those spatter guards for frying bacon, depends on how much air flow you want.
 
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