Antec powersupply

[kjvnasa]

Ok so i have a 5 year old antec powersupply that has been working great all the time. Recenty i opened up my case and noticed that there is a sh!t ton of dust in it. like legitimatly a layer dust. So i unscrewed the casing and vacumed most of the dust out. What i am wondering is if it is safe to run a powersupply after this. I will be building a new pc and would not want it to destroy my new components. I have no pc i can try it on though before i do it.... what do you guys think?

[incarnate]

just so long as you get as much the dust out of the power supply as possible it should be fine.

[kronickiller]

5 years old, it will be on its last limbs soon enough lol 

vaccuming it wont hurt it i do mine all the time

[Grrizz]

Antec generally make good PSUs so I wouldn't be too worried.

[-rascal-]

Power supplies generally last a long time.

 

I have an Antec 430W PSU in my HTPC, powering a Radeon HD 4850 + Athlon 64 X2 6000+, and it is about eight years old -- still going strong.

My main system is using a Corsair TX850 (ver 1.x) and I have had it since 2010. It's powering  a FX-8350 @ 4.9GHz and two HD 7970's; no problems yet.

[Aniallation]

Ok so i have a 5 year old antec powersupply that has been working great all the time. Recenty i opened up my case and noticed that there is a sh!t ton of dust in it. like legitimatly a layer dust. So i unscrewed the casing and vacumed most of the dust out. What i am wondering is if it is safe to run a powersupply after this. I will be building a new pc and would not want it to destroy my new components. I have no pc i can try it on though before i do it.... what do you guys think?

Chances are it's perfectly fine. My 7 year old Antec is still working perfectly.