How often do you dust your PC?

[lani100]

By daily I meant by ever 1-2 months lol. This buldup happened in less than a year and no I do not have any pets in my home and its on wood floors

Try to place it a bit higher.

[PirateCoffee]

well the cpu fan was installed little less than a year

 AAARGH WHAT. LESS THAN A YEAR FOR THAT MUCH DUST!

 

*dies*

[failblox]

Its been 6 months with my pc and no dust... wtf how

Maybe OP's case doesn't have dust filters and yours does?

[Goodman2265]

Maybe OP's case doesn't have dust filters and yours does?

No dust filters on mine

[vivacity]

Try to place it a bit higher.

Yea I will probably do this because the psu filter on the bottom was also hell

[vivacity]

Its been 6 months with my pc and no dust... wtf how

god knows, my house is very clean and cleaned on a daily basis, this room is cleaned less than the others but there still shouldnt be this much dust

[Goodman2265]

god knows, my house is very clean and cleaned on a daily basis, this room is cleaned less than the others but there still shouldnt be this much dust

The amount of dust OP has is crazy and my house is cleaned daily to

[cragger89]

I do the filters on my Carbide 240 once a month roughly.

[Gix7Fifty]

How many fan intakes do you have? Shoot for positive pressure.

[vivacity]

How many fan intakes do you have? Shoot for positive pressure.

one fan in the front that pushes air in through the case and one exhaust in the back, including the evo 212 fan also

[cragger89]

Add a third fan to push air in the case. My Carbide 240 is setup that way. Get a lot of dust build up on the filters but not much internally, which is nice. You don't get dust clogging up the USB and other I/O, that way.

[TheR6]

You don't have to clean it out daily, but in reality its just depending of where you live. I barely get any dust in my PC but theirs still some laying around as I just looked down at my keyboard. I would grab a fan that filters out the dust. I'm thinking of grabbing one but there 500$  

[Cgermino89]

Hi everyone. I find myself dusting off my recently built pc daily if not more than a few times a day. I guess I'm just overly cautious about it. I was wondering what were some of your guys dusting rituals to say, or what do you use to dust your pc off with. 

 

Also how often should someone clean the inside of there PC? I just want to protect my investment, but not overdue it to the point where I'm cleaning it more than enjoying it.

 

Thanks for reading everyone.

[Jade]

Used to be once per month. Now it's on my desk so it's been once every 3 or so.

[TheKDub]

I've only cleaned my fan filters like 3 times in the past like 9 months, as for everything inside my case, I don't really get much dust buildup in there.

(PC is on my desk, though my cat still likes to "help" clog the filters..)

[paprikman]

Hi everyone. I find myself dusting off my recently built pc daily if not more than a few times a day. I guess I'm just overly cautious about it. I was wondering what were some of your guys dusting rituals to say, or what do you use to dust your pc off with. 

 

Also how often should someone clean the inside of there PC? I just want to protect my investment, but not overdue it to the point where I'm cleaning it more than enjoying it.

 

Thanks for reading everyone.

I clean my house every week, so I clean my case's filters once a week (or maybe 2 times), complete cleaning (push dust off gpu cooler, cpu cooler, other parts) every 2 month. No need to do it more often, because u can break something, but it's good to keep everything clean, especially if u wanna sell old parts later.

[KE2012]

when i had it on the floor it was about once every 2 months, but since moving it to my desk and changing to a case with dust filters very rarely. 

[Cgermino89]

I clean my house every week, so I clean my case's filters once a week (or maybe 2 times), complete cleaning (push dust off gpu cooler, cpu cooler, other parts) every 2 month. No need to do it more often, because u can break something, but it's good to keep everything clean, especially if u wanna sell old parts later.

 

okay. I just worry because my room get pretty warm during the summer almost 80degrees. So I have a fan in my room cooling it down most of the time.

[PirateCoffee]

I have my computer on my desk and it doesn't really collect much dust.

 

Although the computer will probably collapse the desk soon so I'm screwed when that happens.

 

The weight of my tower is making divots in the desk where the feet are.

[Cgermino89]

I have my computer on my desk and it doesn't really collect much dust.

 

Although the computer will probably collapse the desk soon so I'm screwed when that happens.

 

The weight of my tower is making divots in the desk where the feet are.

DAMN!!! 

[Dezz]

I've only cleaned my fan filters like 3 times in the past like 9 months, as for everything inside my case, I don't really get much dust buildup in there.

(PC is on my desk, though my cat still likes to "help" clog the filters..)

 

I know what you are talking about, I have two syberian cats at home. Once when I pulled out dust filter I thought that I could make another cat from that amount of fur

[Cgermino89]

I know what you are talking about, I have two syberian cats at home. Once when I pulled out dust filter I thought that I could make another cat from that amount of fur

 

I too have a cat that likes to lay on my desk while I'm at work.

[paprikman]

DAMN!!! 

I've tried to place my pc on the desk, so I had to buy another desk.

[Leonard]

Even by having a clean - super clean home and using dust filters, you can't stop dust and because you spent a good deal of your hard earned cash on it you tend to be overprotective and i think we all go through that.

 

I do a full clean when i clean my loop, which is ever 6-8 months and every i just take out the filters and wash then and just put them back. Now i can do that because i keep a clean home, i don't smoke, use body powder or have in house pets, which are all major contributors to mega dust build up.

[gcubed]

You pretty much have to do a monthly inspection until you find out how fast the dust accumulates.

 

Factors involved what the frequency of case cleaning are varied but basically boil down to:

1. How clean the environment is.

2. Case air filtration and pressures.

3. What the wife will say if you shoot the cat.