How often do you dust your PC?

[LogicalDrm]

Front filter when I remember. Bottom and inside 2-3 times a year. I vacuum my room almost weekly. That helps too.

[Cgermino89]

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.

hahahaha. No wife here

[KaminKevCrew]

In my area, there is very little dust, so I can easily go 6-8 months without cleaning it, and when I finally get around to it, I'll have very little dust buildup anyway. (And this is on the floor of a carpeted room)

[SatansHollow]

once or twice a month and I double filter. The heat sinks get cleaned when the look dusty every six months or so

[Trik'Stari]

I should probably clean mine out. Been a good while. (like 2 months) and I smoke, and the dust filter on the Air 540 isn't that great.

[flibberdipper]

Mine sits on carpet... I never really dust it... Oops. Still clean inside (good front filter, apparently).

[GetGeekified]

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

 

This is a little ghetto, but get some furniture slides or cut some plexiglass to put under the feet. Is it a low quality top or has it been previously damaged (e.g. water soaking into wood)? I have put several hundred pounds on various desk I've had and haven't ever done anything, other than scratch them up because I'd drag things and drop tools.

[xeromynd]

Mine sits on the wood base of my desk, on the floor basically, but not on carpet. I just cleaned my build for the first time since building it (February) and it still didn't have much dust at all.

 

All my intakes are filtered though. God bless this R5. Usually just run the filters under some water and let them dry, no harm done.

 

For cleaning, I usually use canned air and a vacuum cleaner. Mind you, vacuum cleaner never touches components directly or even goes inside the case, it's just for sucking up whatever the canned air blows out, because I don't want that PC dust going on my carpet.

 

If you're super worries about dust, pick up a few things like some canned air, magnetic dust filters (for intake fans), and maybe even some port covers if you think they're necessary. I have every port I don't use covered up, including PCIe.

[techetga]

I clean it once a year, when it's making a strange noise and when I'm getting BSOD's every few hours.

[Kyuubixchidori]

my pc isnt filtered. hasnt been cleaned in months. last time I opened it, it was spotless though. the case fans are on for probably only a few hours a month. and even then, about 500rpm

[GetGeekified]

I can't actually keep anything electronic clean here. The complex ownership refused to clean the ventilation system. To keep it decent, I'd need to clean it at least once a week. I currently don't filter anything. Now, I just don't care because I'm going to build something, in a few months, which I actually want to own; rather than what's under my desk.

My new build will be going into a custom built desk which will have a custom soundproof and filtered cabinet for my tower.

[Vivilacqua1]

I leave it until i notice it in my side panel window. Then I ignore it (the H-440 doesn't seem to get too dusty though)

[ExcitezR]

top tip have a clean room 

 

i took all the dust filters out of my computer for better airflow and haven't dusted it in about 2 months and it still looks good as new in there 

[Lethal Seraph]

Dust filter and bi-monthly blowing it with compressed air over at the garage.

[Exploded117]

I have had my Scrub Dell computer for almost 2 years now..... No dust filters..... Haven't dusted it once. And I always thought that my temps were bad because I only had one case fan and one GPU fan.

[mixup]

every two months....

[faziten]

every mayor upgrade. if i have to turn it off and unplugged from the wall i clean it. (24/7 on downloading/working/testing/bleh.). 

[rkcmd]

Every week, after sweeping my room. I never turn off my PC so when I broom the floor, the intake filters get morbidly dusty.

[LeightonPC]

Never

[neebuilda]

it varies from once every 2 weeks to once every 3 months depending on how much i care at that particular time