Cleaning the Dusty Gaming Machine

Friend of mine brought over his gaming machine, video cards were idling at almost 70c D:

After a good long dusting with my air compressor (at 80psi) they idle back ~55c where they should be. Computer was caked with dust, due to no dust filters.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• very
• dusty
• dirty
• gaming
• machine
• air
• compressor
• clean
• cleaning

[parahthemad]

I use a hair dryer to blow the dust away from my pc. I do it once every 2 months. I have a haf x case

[SubaruHyena]

@parahthemad I don't recommend doing that. hair dryers and vacuums and things like that can cause static which can destroy your components. I'd recommend using canned air or like me use a air compressor to blow out the inside of the case, this method is the most safe on the components.

[Docthewrench]

WOW you are the only person besides ME I have ever seen use shop air to blow the dust out of a computer Screw them air cans WAY to much money waste. VERY loud compressor though, I turn my air down to 25ish from 130 at 130 i might see caps fly off lol. I clean my systems all 4 of them about once a month

[SubaruHyena]

@Docthewrench Yeah well my compressor is from the 60's or 70's I think. it's actually nearly silent compared to the 220v I had before. This was at 80psi that's about the max you want to blow onto components like this, but to get some of that dust off I probably needed something more like 100psi

[AeroFix94]

can you give me the fully specs of this PC??

[SubaruHyena]

@AeroFix94 This machine isn't mine. as far as I know

Asus SLI motherboard something or other

500GB Western Digital Caviar Black

AMD Phenom 9600 X4

SLI Nvidia 8800GTS 768MB

750W Rosewill power supply

Lian Li case.

[markothevrba]

Fucking hell dude, you could fill a pillow with that dust!

[TrueKinth]

@parahthemad Also a hair dryer makes alot of heat so it could end up melting the solder and making connections go bad,

[Damaruth]

you get so good kicks when cleaning huge amounts of dust from a computer :D

[Atari907]

EEEWWWW!

[squall0833]

it's better you hold the fan all the time when blowing at it, letting it high speed spins could damage ur fan bearing :)

[ce3jay]

Too bad I cant use my air compressor anymore. Damm neighbors complain about the noise. Now i just use my shop vac since it has an exhaust that can be used as a blower. xD

[Aimanrulez]

@SubaruHyena i also heard canned air is bad too...

[TheOrigonalKoil]

Important point to remember when using compressors. Always regulate them down to no more than 65PSI or you can actually blow components right off their boards. I speak from personal experience in this matter.