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January 27th, 2007, 07:36 PM
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#1 | | Professional Member
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|  Dust is evil
For a few months up until now, my video card's load temperature reached as high as 119C (!!). Yeah. Not good at all.
Then, a couple days ago, my computer kept overheating (and thus shutting down). It'd overheat 5 minutes after a cold boot.
So, this morning, I stuck a vacuum cleaner in there and sucked all the damned dust out. Now my video card's load temperature is around 70C (almost a 50C decrease!).
The moral of the story is that dust can go to hell.
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January 27th, 2007, 08:01 PM
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#2 | | Edelweiss Corporal
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hehehehe , mate , since my case is uber old atx case , without any fans , i have to lave it opened all the time both side`s.
So last week , my puter started to reboot.
After five or six reboot , i got directed to BIOS/Hardware monitor , ther was info about CPU overheating , since i dint change any OC , or anything other, i knowed that it must be my radiator on Coller dusted to hell , and it was.
Vacume cleaner covered with antistatick plastick bag done the JOBe perfect.
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January 27th, 2007, 09:40 PM
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It's the worst when your case has one of those side fans, which my Wife's case has. i have to blow it out once/month. I would recommend getting a case with no side fans, and charcoal filters in the front bezels (i.e. Thermaltake Armor). I only have to vacuum the front of my system now occasionally, it doesn't build up any dust inside anymore  | |
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January 27th, 2007, 09:49 PM
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#4 | | Stuck in "April 1st"
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My case doesn't collect dust, it generates it. Scientists are puzzled.
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January 27th, 2007, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Unixlord My case doesn't collect dust, it generates it. Scientists are puzzled. | Ohh thats too funny LOL  
Seriously though dust is a bugger .... at the old place had my old machine on the carpet for a while .. bad idea !! 
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January 28th, 2007, 01:00 AM
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dust's wurst enemy is compressed air, it works good | |
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January 28th, 2007, 05:47 AM
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#7 | | Advanced Member
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Even better, the Wife just bought an Oreck vacuum, and it came with a "canister" vacuum with intake and exhaust ports. So I just hook the hose to the exhaust port, turn it on, and blow the dust right outta there (I recommend anyone that gets one, do blow out your system outside, as it seems that this little powerhouse found hidden caches of dust in my system and it all ended up in my face ). | |
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January 28th, 2007, 12:26 PM
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#8 | | Stuck in "April 1st"
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dust's wurst enemy is compressed air, it works good
| Shouldn't that be "it wurks gud"?
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January 28th, 2007, 08:38 PM
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YA MAYBE, LOL | |
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January 29th, 2007, 04:59 AM
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#10 | | Even Simpler
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Well I guess you could enclose your case into an inert gas atmøsphere, which means:
-Helium
-Neon
-Argon
-Krypton
-Xenon
-Radon (make sure you have yourself wrapped in potassium linings if you use radon, it is a heavy emitter of radioactive gamma rays)
Or an almost non-reactive gas
-Nitrogen
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