Have you ever cleaned your pc?

[WaggishOhio383]

I clean the inside of my PC once a month or so. Mostly cleaning up surface dust. I should really get some compressed air and blow out my GPU because I can't clean the area under the backplate otherwise, and I haven't done that once since I got it 7 months ago... My temps are still fine though so I think I'm okay for now.

[Tristerin]

When I open it and go...eww

 

I don't have time for proper case maintenance like I would prefer

[GuacInWhereSunDontShine]

I try to do it annually, but sometimes it doesn't work out. I clean out dust filters often too.

[kelvinhall05]

Wipe the top off daily, clean filters every few weeks, and deep clean once a month or so.

[Arika]

maybe once or twice a year.

 

1 hour ago, mahyar said:

clean it every day

that's excessive.

 

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Arika S said:

maybe once or twice a year.

 

that's excessive.

 

not in my place

[Blademaster91]

I clean my PC about once a month, I like to keep surface dust off the fans, heatsinks, and filters, cleaning wtih q tips on the fans and an electric duster.

[Morris_lee_9116]

I take apart the side panel about a month or two to wipe some dust off the PSU shroud or fan/fan filters

[TheGreenBeam]

I clean the exterior every week or so along with the monitor, keyboard and mouse. Sometimes I use my multipurpose automotive polish on the exterior of the case as well, gives it that extra shine  (my case does not have a tempered glass side-panel btw).

 

I haven't the inside ever since I've built it though. 

[ewitte]

On 9/28/2020 at 5:48 AM, Den-Fi said:

They are cleaned regularly.

Custom loops drained, flushed, and cleaned every 6 months or so.

I'm bad about custom loop clean but try to get it done right before summer each year. 

 

Just vacuumed yesterday dirt on the filters warms up temps.

[BetteBalterZen]

When my fans can't run anymore because of dust build up, it's about time IMHO

[KaithlynMoore]

Frankly, I clean my pc once in a year, but it is recommended to clean it every 6 months for the betterment of the components.

[TehDwonz]

On 9/28/2020 at 11:46 AM, pm128 said:

I have never cleaned cleaned mine, and I got it in 2018. What about you?

Comic Sans is a Crime.

 

Pretty random schedule as life allows. Change the coolant on my personal PC every 4-6 months. It's my own stuff, and it'd likely last a year without being changed if needed. So aside from brushing off the dust filters (external), not often. But then it's not that dusty here.

[Dedayog]

On 9/28/2020 at 6:47 AM, mahyar said:

clean it every day

Think he means in the inside.

 

I wipe mine down every day or two, not a fan of dust.  

 

Inside... I clean filters and blow out the interior every couple weeks as part of cleaning my house.

[mahyar]

34 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Think he means in the inside.

 

I wipe mine down every day or two, not a fan of dust.  

 

Inside... I clean filters and blow out the interior every couple weeks as part of cleaning my house.

i know what he means and trust me my pc is a dust magnet

[TetraSky]

I dust it off every so often. Though since I have fan filters on every intakes, it's super easy.

 

[Donut417]

If lucky once a year........ yeah I’m a bad PC owner. 

[Ashleyyyy]

my main computer is a laptop, but yea i open it up every few months and clean the dust out of the fan.

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[Guest]

I dust it regularly and clean the glass panels. I don't let it get bad. But I'm like that with my MacBook too, I frequently dust the keyboard and the fans and clean the screen (that actually has worked against me because my frequent cleaning of the screen caused the coating to come off of my last one).

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Dust cleaning every so often. Full tear down to the bare case/ motherboard then rebuild every 2 years. 

[clean]

On 9/28/2020 at 6:46 AM, pm128 said:

I have never cleaned cleaned mine, and I got it in 2018. What about you?

I cleaned my pc for the first time at 14, 1 year after building it for my 13th birthday. I installed a new cooler on my fx processes. When i plugged in a cheap fan that came with the pc I plugged in both the fan header and a Molex. It fried my entire mobo. After that I have yet to break a PC but when I clean it I am extra careful. 

[Dyaets]

Yep, clean it every month.

[Quader199]

clean it every week

[LloydLynx]

I got an old HP Compaq I use as a server, the only time it gets cleaned is if I'm working on it. I haven't touched it in months and the front grille is slowly developing a film of dust, and it's got cobwebs around the back. Notify me later if yall want a pic, I'm not at the house right now.

[AthruNe]

Why yes I have. I have cleaned our computers a time or two.