CPU running hot......You really should see this, unbelievable.

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

<-- Puts on face mask, charge up the air compressor, let 'er rip!

 

[manimal]

I had an asthma attack after seeing this picture...

 

[nyker96]

Nasty... this made me google image "dusty pc". Its not pretty you guys....

:thumbsdown:

Nice I love this. after seen these pictures I will no longer complaint about how dusty mine gets. there's no contest with these.

 

[taltamir]

i prefer cleaning computers with a vacuum cleaner. and no need for a mask either when you do that

As for watercooling. Watercooling still uses heatsinks and sometimes even fans.

 

[Markfw]

i prefer cleaning computers with a vacuum cleaner. and no need for a mask either when you do that

As for watercooling. Watercooling still uses heatsinks and sometimes even fans.

I have tried a vacuum cleaner. It doesn't get 1/10th the dirt a compessor does.

 

[floogy]

Gross. Reminds me I need to get case fan filters like I used to have on my antec case

 

[foghorn67]

I really need stop bitching about cleaning the fan filters on my P180 every week. Because honestly, the innards are almost squeaky clean.

 

[Tryckee]

Holy Crap! And I thought the little dust that I accrue in my PC was a lot. +1 for filters. *cough* *cough*

 

[BTA]

I have tried a vacuum cleaner. It doesn't get 1/10th the dirt a compessor does.

Agreed.

Shop VAC + air compressor at the same time ftw

 

[Markfw]

Agreed.

Shop VAC + air compressor at the same time ftw

While I agree that MIGHT work. You would have to be there to see the cloud when I hit that case with the air. No shop vac I have ever seen could suck that cloud in.

 

[Zargon]

I used to manage some engineering college computer labs.

we owned a compressor just because of that.

 

[konakona]

LOL..

i remember when i was in college and did pc repair for friends, i ran across a pal who owned a car body shop.

You guys know how much dust is in a car body shop.

I walked in korean... by the time i finished cleaning his computer and redid the OS, i came out as a black man.

:X

<do not mean this racially in any way.... i was litterally covered up with so much dust and soot, i came out black>

heh, I read this post just now and thought about your ID for a sec.. funny how I never noticed it all this time

 

[aigomorla]

oh that my id means... "oh gowd i dont know.." in korean?

 

[Plimogz]

Just to add a little something here with regards to air compressors VS. vacuum cleaners...

compressors don't usually generate static charge in the way that vacuum cleaners (be they "shop-vac" or central) do.

I once messed up one half of a raid 1 array while vacuuming the case. (I unfortunately can't clearly recall how that eventually worked out -- I seem to remember everything functionning after some rebuilding, but...)

Anyway, this is one case where there most definitely is a difference between sucking and blowing. IMHO at least

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Three machines running under my desk here -- the most recently built has never been cleaned (built last summer). It's time to put the vacuum-cleaner on them again. why? This thread -- thanks for the reminder.