Not to self: Clean dust out of case

[Anubis]

OK today i was thinkin about puttin somemore fans in my comp so i took a look in there and holy crap was this thing full of dust. its only been like a month sence i was last in there didnt thik it could build up that fast. there was so much dust on the sides of my SK6 that it was black. took that crap off and lowered my cPU temp 4 degrees!!!! didnt realize that my dorm room was so dusty guess im gonna have to keep an eye on it.

 

[SWScorch]

eeeewwww

Dust can be a real problem, for me as well. Over the summer we renovated my room, and took down a chimney and some plater walls. There is still plater dust everywhere, and it gets into my computer and really gunks things up.

But removing dust can have a profound effect on cooling, as you just discovered. Dust is one of your worst enemies. I recommend you purchase some fan filters; they'll keep out a large portion of the dust. Dust will still find its way into the case, but at least the majority of it will be stopped at the filters. You can also use dryer anti-static sheets taped over most of the ventilation spots as a makeshift filter if you're cheap; I mean thrifty. 😛

 

[Akira13]

<< Dust is one of your worst enemies. >>



Same here, although my arch nemesis right now are dust's allies, electrostatics and gravity. Perhaps charging your filter and all of your components positively will cause the dust to be repelled. Or perhaps I've been staring at my physics book for too long.

 

[ChefJoe]

Lol. dust probably has both positive and negative charges, so you'd have to turn your case into a giant capacitor. That would be pretty interesting until you fired that puppy up and wiped the hard drive.

 

[Anubis]

yea im a physics mahor and i dont think you can repell dust

 

[Akira13]

I figured that if the dust passed through a positively charged filter, it would become positively charged too. Then when it got near the components it would be repelled by their positive charges too. But now I think you'd probably have to have a negatively charged exhaust fan so that the dust would be attracted to the exhaust instead of suspending themselves in the case. Did I mention that I hate electromag physics?

 

[ChrisADuffy]

😀 dust

 

[AtriumBruin]

you fools! this is where giant ziploc bags come into play!

 

[Anubis]

and how do these giant zip lock bags help with dust

 

[ChefJoe]

hrm, I wonder if someone's going to say "I heard I can cut down on water used to flush toilets by putting bricks in so I tried that on my case. Naw dude, the bags direct the airflow, they don't hinder it".

 

[wakko]

 

[wakko]

yea dust is a major problem i have at davis!! theres just too much of it over here