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[Dumb Question] Which way to use air compressor for PSU?

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I have a Metro Vacuum ED500 and want to clean the dust out of my PSU. Which way should I blow in from? The fan side or the mesh (switch/ power cord) side?

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Uhm.
Open the side panel and get a can of compressed air, preferably. Hold fan blades in place as you clean those, Otherwise, just blow air in that way.
Dust isn't going to smoothly flow through your case with a powerful air compressor :P However, with that kind, you may be able to use it in place of cans.

I really wish that we'd just make organic hardware already, that grows and adapts to the demands it needs to meet. That way, grannies' computers can be floppy sacks of organicness and the 12 year old Minecrafters will look like the guys that only do bicep curls, and the nerdy programmers will finally have justice, with their body-builder rigs that skipped leg day.


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Uhm.

Open the side panel and get a can of compressed air, preferably. Hold fan blades in place as you clean those, Otherwise, just blow air in that way.

Dust isn't going to smoothly flow through your case with a powerful air compressor :P However, with that kind, you may be able to use it in place of cans.

Well my Corsair AX850 draws in from the bottom and exhausts out. So I don't think I'll need to open the case. But the holding the fan in place is the good idea.

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Uhm.
Is your ONLY intake your PSU fan?
You may somewhat be creating a vacuum in your case if every fan is exhausting. That's bad for thermals.
I personally have every fan as intakes except my CPU radiator, which is an outtake, and then there's an empty fan slot (filling it tomorrow with an exhaust, actually), so my case has some nice air-pressure going on, pushing air through the radiator and out of the case better.

I really wish that we'd just make organic hardware already, that grows and adapts to the demands it needs to meet. That way, grannies' computers can be floppy sacks of organicness and the 12 year old Minecrafters will look like the guys that only do bicep curls, and the nerdy programmers will finally have justice, with their body-builder rigs that skipped leg day.


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Uhm.

Is your ONLY intake your PSU fan?

You may somewhat be creating a vacuum in your case if every fan is exhausting. That's bad for thermals.

I personally have every fan as intakes except my CPU radiator, which is an outtake, and then there's an empty fan slot (filling it tomorrow with an exhaust, actually), so my case has some nice air-pressure going on, pushing air through the radiator and out of the case better.

...what? It's not an intake at all (in terms of case aerodynamics). The air circulates threw the PSU from one end, and out the other. And to continue the tangent, I have three 120s as intake at 70%, and three 140s as exhaust at 50%.

Back on topic - I think I am going to direct the compressed air from the fan side of the PSU.

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...what? It's not an intake at all (in terms of case aerodynamics). The air circulates threw the PSU from one end, and out the other. And to continue the tangent, I have three 120s as intake at 70%, and three 140s as exhaust at 50%.

Back on topic - I think I am going to direct the compressed air from the fan side of the PSU.

I usually just direct it at any openings, doesn't hurt to do both sides. Just make sure to either buffet the air or hold the fan so it doesn't spin while you do it.

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...what? It's not an intake at all (in terms of case aerodynamics). The air circulates threw the PSU from one end, and out the other. And to continue the tangent, I have three 120s as intake at 70%, and three 140s as exhaust at 50%.

Back on topic - I think I am going to direct the compressed air from the fan side of the PSU.

Okay, okay.

Honestly, I misunderstood this as you cleaning your computer as a whole; Apologies :P

When I clean mine, I generally direct air into both intake and exhaust.

I really wish that we'd just make organic hardware already, that grows and adapts to the demands it needs to meet. That way, grannies' computers can be floppy sacks of organicness and the 12 year old Minecrafters will look like the guys that only do bicep curls, and the nerdy programmers will finally have justice, with their body-builder rigs that skipped leg day.


CPU: i7-4770k 4.8GHz | Motherboard: Asus Maximus Hero | RAM: 16gigs 2133MHz | GPU: SLI Gigabyte OC 2gb 770's | Case: INWIN GRone | Storage: 1tb Blue, 60gb SSD | PSU: Silencer MK II 950w | Cooling: Modded H100i

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Okay, okay.

Honestly, I misunderstood this as you cleaning your computer as a whole; Apologies :P

When I clean mine, I generally direct air into both intake and exhaust.

It's all good! Thanks for helping either way!

 

I usually just direct it at any openings, doesn't hurt to do both sides. Just make sure to either buffet the air or hold the fan so it doesn't spin while you do it.

Thanks for the tips!

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