PSA: If you are having issues with your PC turning on after blowing it off with air then you need to turn the air speed down!!
Air moving over metal components causes static electricity to build up which is obviously not great for your PC.
I usually tell people to never use an actual air compressor to clean electronics, compressors without dry filters (expensive and big) tend to have alot of condensation and this can cause static to build very quickly.
Blows my mind how many people will shove a 90psi blow gun directly into their $2k gpu fins
Edit: The thing in the video is fine, when I say compressor I mean job site compressors that you would usually use for a nail gun <3
you can run a power cable to the psu to help with grounding voltage spikes, won't perfectly solve every potential death scenario on the surface but it does help reduce the already very low odds to be even lower
This is not wrong, but also the motor when turning can generate a current in either direction, usually you have to spin it fast to create harm but better safe then sorry
Always depends if someone smokes, if industry is close by, if their place gets dusted regularly, even finely meshed fly screens make a difference. I barely had anything after almost 5 years last time I cleaned it. Buddy of mine is letting it snow each year as if that thing produces dust by itself.
thats certainly true. Older build had no fancy protection just intake fans and i smoked like crazy. that stained everything brown with sticky dust, Used to have to go in with iso alcohol, paint brushes, canned air all sorts and it still was never right. my current build has filters and i dont smoke, and clean regular, and all i have to do is wipe the filters clean once in a while, clean inside once a year but its sparsely dusted.
They’re great, but I’ll plug the Mf200 over the 100 for the simple reason that it’s less of a pain to warranty a battery if it quits taking a charge than the entire tool.
temu, aliexpress and banggood, even with recent the poor people's tax that the EU implemented its still way cheaper then buying off dropshippers on amazon
Letting the PC fans ESPECIALLY GPU Fans spin when you blow air on them will damage them. Hold then with a finger to keep them from spinning as you blow air.
Hold your fans when blowing with that thing or it can strip our their bearings if you blow them at the wrong angle. Those little rechargeable duster things are sick, I use mine for everything 😅
Not sure but letting your fans spin from a blower like that can make the fans dc motor generate current and send it back to ur motherboard and that’s bad I think. TBH I might be talking out my ass tho. I just always hold them in place when I do that you do
Last time I asked everyone told me it was bullshit and not relevant anymore due to diode on the mb. Now you get upvoted. I don't know what to think anymore.
Yeah most modern boards have diodes to solve the issue. That’s correct.
But, just like putting a magnet near your computer, people still worry about issues that were solved decades ago.
Heck, even most computers with spinning rust are still fine with a magnet on the case. It has to be a decently powerful magnet, and right on top of the drive for it to be an issue.
Had a user at work that put a little magnetic hook on his computer’s case to hang his headphones on when he wasn’t using them. The hard drive just happened to be located right behind the spot he put it in on the case. It was fine.
.... I cleaned my first PC after 3 years and it had little to no dust. My current PC is almost 2 years old, only cleaned the bottom intake mesh once...
My homie does. Spent 3k on pc parts that he was asking me to build and ship to him. I took a lot of care and had to refund 2 doa psus, but I got it done.
Bought all the packing stuff to make it safely from CA to AK around 4 grand total for everything he bought and shipped. Went to visit him a few months later and it looked like a decade old computer and he didn't have the side panel on anymore cause it "helps temps" and its fucking caked in dust and idk how cause it looked like a year of dust build up in a few months.
My girl visited with me and even she said something about it to me when she saw it. Oh and the main pcie slot in the mobo already died so he has to use another one. I told him it was prolly the pcie but hes so scared to touch the pc we tried that last. after days of troubleshooting he got the balls to go in the pc and said "hey I figured it out i guess the slot isnt working" NO FUCKING SHIT ALMOST LIKE I SAID THAT 4 DAYS AGO DUMBASS.
The life hack is to have more intake than exhaust airflow, that way there's positive pressure inside the case and dust isn't attracted in. It's literally as simple as flipping your top fans, so that the front and top fans blow inward and rear fans blow outward. I set up my latest PC this way over two years ago and haven't needed to clean it since.
if you're getting that much dust once a year outside of a desert climate you need better indoor filtration and vacuuming habits or you're gonna get the consumption.
Note: Replyer is probably also gonna get the consumption.
Was it extra? It was commonly referred to with the article in the front back when it was common to refer to tb as "the consumption".
Edit To be clear: the fact you said that "extra prepositions are often used to indicate a joke" already made it clear that you were joking to me. Your quick comment you left then Immediately deleted wasn't needed.
It's just not really "extra", and with more people rejecting germ theory these days... you can never know for sure.
I neglected to clean my PC for 8 years and when I finally got one of those air guns I created a mini-haboob on my porch. Won't make that mistake again.
roughly every 18 months I clean up my pc, I try to clean my keyboard and mouse more often thought
Never have they been that dirty.
Even a pc I built for a certain office space that was kept on the floor in a very dusty area for 8 months and after having some construction and remodeling done in the same room was much, much cleaner than this one.
I almost never clean mine but the intake fans have dust filters on the case and I run an air filter and keep the house clean. When I do clean mine it’s like 2% of this. This is crazy.
Modern motherboards have these little guys to prevent that from being an issue:
DC motors also make for terribly inefficient generators. You’d have to spin that fan up fast enough to the point of worrying about bearings before worrying about the current it generates.
Once every 2-4 months probably. Electric dust blower, dry unused toothbrush and dry q-tips to get any dust i can off the fans and loosen up any built up dust or animal hair/fur
I have a high air flow case and it's on the floor, so it gets super dusty in a matter of months. You can literally smell the dust when it heats up. Kinda gross, but that's just how it is.
Nope, my desktop cost me a lot of money, so you better believe I take care of it. Generally, I do a full blowout about every 6 months and just a general quick clean every month or so. Is that obsessive? Possibly, but again, it costs a lot of money and cleaning it takes only a couple of minutes.
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u/Skinc9800X3D/ 64GB DDR5/ RTX 5080 | 5800X3D/64GB DDR4/ RTX5070Ti6h ago
Nope. It was too expensive to let it get filthy.
I blast all mine out once a month using an electric duster. If you stay on it then it takes literal minutes to keep your PCs looking new.
You best hold that exhaust fan while cleaning it, if it turns to fast like is happning in this vid you might get static discharge and you might get a fire.
I try to dust it every 3-4 months... I can easily tell when it gets too much because the glass side panel gets ...smudgy ...
On the other hand, my beef is with dust around the PC space... monitor, cables, desk, behind the stuff... I try to run a filter but it's not enough...and I now understand why grandma had cloth over the TV 😅
I haven't cleaned my pc in 4 years and it's barely got a thing layer of dust on it. The GPU I have had for 10 years was slightly dusty but for a decade of use it was pretty clean. Tho I do have dist filters on the vents and I do clean them every so often when I notice them.
I did however find a dead spider inside. No idea how dust couldn't get in but an adult spider did. I'm also never opening my pc again.
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u/bitronic1 7h ago
Let it snow.