How Do You Keep Your Computer Clean?

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Darkatom

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I'm just curious as to how some of you guys keep the internals of your computer free of dust. Please share your tips and secrets. Feel free to post just how clean your coputer is :) .
 
Agreed.
Keep it off of the floor.
And don't smoke in the same room as your machine, and for God sakes, keep your animals away as well.

My wife just thinks it's so cute when the cat sleeps on top of her machine, right on the top intake.......
 
digital_exhaust said:
My wife just thinks it's so cute when the cat sleeps on top of her machine, right on the top intake.......
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lol. My friends cat would do that right on top of his 21" CRT monitor.

Yeah keep it raised off the floor and take it outside for the occasional canned air. Also, a good habit is to keep the room vacumned. Less dust in the room = less dust to be sucked into the case. It's more hygenic anyway.
 
digital_exhaust said:
Agreed.
Keep it off of the floor.
And don't smoke in the same room as your machine, and for God sakes, keep your animals away as well.

My wife just thinks it's so cute when the cat sleeps on top of her machine, right on the top intake.......
Click to expand...

My girlfriend's cat would've gotten a flying lesson if it ever did that. Thankfully it was too afraid of the fan noise to even try and approach it.
 
I keep it off the floor and clean it every 6 months or so.
I check for dust buildup on heatsinks every few months and clean when necessary.
 
i keep mine on the floor is that really a bad thing? the leds just annoy me after a while when theyre in my face on my desk. Also there are a sh!t load of wires so i just keep it on the ground.

meh, i just use air filters :)
 
My computers are never free of dust. Every time I upgrade one of them for something I take a can of air to them but don't go for spotless or anything like that.
 
I keep mine off of the floor like most people, and about monthly I open it up and use a can of air. I don't use air filters on the intake fans. I tried, but I found it restricted airflow too much.
 
all the above suggestions are good for prevention

but no matter what you do it will get dirty

about every 6 months or so i usually completely dissassemble my PC, use canned air to get the bulk of the dust out, but i also remove every fan and clean every square inch of them with alcohol and cotton swabs and q-tips because if all you do is blow them out, they will pick up more dust much more quickly

it sounds time consuming, but i usually set it up and grab a six pack o' brew and take my time, it became part of my regularly scheduled clean re-installs of Windows XP
 
Forgot to mention, I use a Dyson vacuum cleaner to suck the dust away, it works really well.
I'm not partial to the taste of the dust :)
 
Thanks for all the tips ! I took everyone's advice and lifted it off the floor about 10 inches. I figure since I just got it less than a month ago, its too early to have it dirty. But as for vacumming I try to do it twice a week.
 
I keep mine on the floor, but I dedust it every other month or so. I can't put mine on my desk or it would block my window. And I like looking outside. :cool:
 
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