We here make a business in cleaning computer boxes around the city. But it is quite simple to open a box and blow out the dust powder with my own breath...
Yikes!! I hope you're not breathing in all that crap! It's other's dead skin, mites, and whatever other new life and accumulated debris unknown to science...
A small vacuum cleaner with a soft anti-static nozzle must be a better idea. Perhaps also backed up by a compressed gas canister.
I just did this myself. My laptop'd been running WU's abnormally slow for a while but I'd discounted cooling as a cause since cpuz always reported it was running at full speed. Then about a week ago it started spontaniously shutting down. At taht point I checked the fans and discovered that while it was spinning at full power there was almost no outbound airflow. The sink ended up being so clogged I had to open up the access hatches in order to blow it free. Everything's running normal again, I just wish I knew that CPUz wasn't able to detect thermal throttling.
We here make a business in cleaning computer boxes around the city. But it is quite simple to open a box and blow out the dust powder with my own breath...
Yikes!! I hope you're not breathing in all that crap! It's other's dead skin, mites, and whatever other new life and accumulated debris unknown to science...
A small vacuum cleaner with a soft anti-static nozzle must be a better idea. Perhaps also backed up by a compressed gas canister.
(Or are you a smoker and don't notice?)
Good luck, Martin
It is just stuff that builds up ones immunity to stuff! I would try not to breathe that stuff in either though!!! When I blow out a really bad machine I take it outside and use my air compressor, when I have one that is not too bad I just use canned air and then use the same air and try to direct the dust away from me. You know it makes a cloud and then I blow the cloud away.
My desktop computer stands underneath the desk, on a cardboard box to keep it from the floor. Just now and then I open it and clean it, but even then there is so little dust collected to the fan blades that cleaning doesn't help me to decrease the temperatures.
I use Ubuntu Linux and have a small applet (sensors applet) working in the upper panel, showing me the CPU, the GPU and hottest core temp, as well as the CPU fan speed.
GPU (fanless) is at 57C, CPU at 59C, the hottest of the 4 cores is at 71C and fan speed is between 1968 and 2088.
I like to have the box standing underneath the table because of the noise the blades make. I have 3 of them and all together they produce some noise when the cpu is at 100% load, which it normally is.
My desktop computer stands underneath the desk, on a cardboard box to keep it from the floor. Just now and then I open it and clean it, but even then there is so little dust collected to the fan blades that cleaning doesn't help me to decrease the temperatures.
I use Ubuntu Linux and have a small applet (sensors applet) working in the upper panel, showing me the CPU, the GPU and hottest core temp, as well as the CPU fan speed.
GPU (fanless) is at 57C, CPU at 59C, the hottest of the 4 cores is at 71C and fan speed is between 1968 and 2088.
I like to have the box standing underneath the table because of the noise the blades make. I have 3 of them and all together they produce some noise when the cpu is at 100% load, which it normally is.
The key to your low dust environment is the cardboard box, I think. Keeping it off the floor keeps it above the small amount of dust that pops up everytime we take a step, move out feet, whatever. At my work sometimes we open machines up and find them just packed with dust! It is no wonder they crashed. We are buying all new ones to be on top of the desktop, usually vertically behind the monitor.
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Yikes!! I hope you're not breathing in all that crap! It's other's dead skin, mites, and whatever other new life and accumulated debris unknown to science...
A small vacuum cleaner with a soft anti-static nozzle must be a better idea. Perhaps also backed up by a compressed gas canister.
(Or are you a smoker and don't notice?)
Good luck,
Martin
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I just did this myself. My laptop'd been running WU's abnormally slow for a while but I'd discounted cooling as a cause since cpuz always reported it was running at full speed. Then about a week ago it started spontaniously shutting down. At taht point I checked the fans and discovered that while it was spinning at full power there was almost no outbound airflow. The sink ended up being so clogged I had to open up the access hatches in order to blow it free. Everything's running normal again, I just wish I knew that CPUz wasn't able to detect thermal throttling.
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It is just stuff that builds up ones immunity to stuff! I would try not to breathe that stuff in either though!!! When I blow out a really bad machine I take it outside and use my air compressor, when I have one that is not too bad I just use canned air and then use the same air and try to direct the dust away from me. You know it makes a cloud and then I blow the cloud away.
My desktop computer stands
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My desktop computer stands underneath the desk, on a cardboard box to keep it from the floor. Just now and then I open it and clean it, but even then there is so little dust collected to the fan blades that cleaning doesn't help me to decrease the temperatures.
I use Ubuntu Linux and have a small applet (sensors applet) working in the upper panel, showing me the CPU, the GPU and hottest core temp, as well as the CPU fan speed.
GPU (fanless) is at 57C, CPU at 59C, the hottest of the 4 cores is at 71C and fan speed is between 1968 and 2088.
I like to have the box standing underneath the table because of the noise the blades make. I have 3 of them and all together they produce some noise when the cpu is at 100% load, which it normally is.
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The key to your low dust environment is the cardboard box, I think. Keeping it off the floor keeps it above the small amount of dust that pops up everytime we take a step, move out feet, whatever. At my work sometimes we open machines up and find them just packed with dust! It is no wonder they crashed. We are buying all new ones to be on top of the desktop, usually vertically behind the monitor.