Holy Crap..A time bomb defused!

[morningtrader]

Unbelievable. My custom built has been purring like a kitten since August. But I kept wondering why the internal temps weren't dropping with the seasons. In fact the last week or so they started to rise inexplicabilty. When they got up to 49C idle, got worried and pulled the case off. To my surprise, removing the case door didnt change temps one degree. But a look inside told the tale. Both the case fans and CPU fan were covered in dust and hair. In fact, it had built up in the HSF fins, which was why removing the door didnt help. I blew out everything. M

My internal has dropped 10C...Incredible.

The case is on the floor and my dog likes to crawl under my feet to take a snooze. He must be dragging in heaps of dirt and hair.

Now I can finally retire the Panaflos for the winter!

 

[Yoshi]

DAMN DOGS!!

Just kidding, but when you have a dog you gotta check your fans. I installed filters on my intake fans, that helps a lot!! All you have to do is clean the filter off now and then.

 

[AMD4ME2]

and you thought you had a clean house! Ha!

seriously though, I have seen the cleanest houses in the world with the dirtiest computers ever... its amazing... the house is spotless... you open up the computer and you wonder if its really dust or if a cat died on the motherboard 10 years ago.

 

[Kipper]

I just blew off the dust from my heatsink with a can of compressed air ($6 for a can of AIR? JEEZ!). Anyway, after blowing the dust off of my PAL8045 and my chipset fans, I dropped from ~39-41 idle, 42-45 load to 34-35 idle, 36-37 load. Whoever thought that dust could be so harmful?

 

[ku]

<< seriously though, I have seen the cleanest houses in the world with the dirtiest computers ever... its amazing... the house is spotless... you open up the computer and you wonder if its really dust or if a cat died on the motherboard 10 years ago. >>



i would seriously have a dirty computer than a dirty house. I'm gonna just put intake fans on my computer and a filter on my exhaust so I can trap all the dust in my computer instead of my house being filled with dust. Then i can just clean my computer and it'll be like cleaning my whole house.

 

[morningtrader]

A big part has to be where you put your case. By necessity, mine is on the floor. Gravity and heat vents take care of the rest.

The next big thing: a case suspended from the ceiling. 360 air flow, easy access, open the bottom and all the crap falls out ;-)

Alan

 

[AcidzT]

did the fans actually stop? if you have it in your BIOS u should turn on the cpu fan stop protection, if the rpm's of the fan stop the bios shuts down the comp, its kinda nice

 

[kyle1745]

Ya, damn PC's seem to be dust/hair magnets.

I keep meaning to get a filter for my case, but never seem to get arround to it.

Kyle