does dust damage your graphics card?

[ynn0s]

I know if enough dust builds up in your case your GPU and CPU will overheat. But besides that does dust actually harm your pc? I've noticed there was some dust on top of my GPU that probably fell through my top exhaust fan, but there was so little I didn't want to risk taking out my GPU again and breaking the card. I've recently just built my first pc so I don't want to accidentally short out my card.

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If dust can cause PC components to overheat than it can damage your graphics card. 

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13 minutes ago, ynn0s said:

I know if enough dust builds up in your case your GPU and CPU will overheat. But besides that does dust actually harm your pc? I've noticed there was some dust on top of my GPU that probably fell through my top exhaust fan, but there was so little I didn't want to risk taking out my GPU again and breaking the card. I've recently just built my first pc so I don't want to accidentally short out my card.

Generally dust shouldn't have an issue if it were to just sit on the PCB but if your in say a workshop and metal powder or grit gets in then it would be a different story. 

[Boomwebsearch]

34 minutes ago, ynn0s said:

I know if enough dust builds up in your case your GPU and CPU will overheat. But besides that does dust actually harm your pc? I've noticed there was some dust on top of my GPU that probably fell through my top exhaust fan, but there was so little I didn't want to risk taking out my GPU again and breaking the card. I've recently just built my first pc so I don't want to accidentally short out my card.

In general, dust is not something that is good for computer components and it can be considered as an element which is a contaminant when it is on computer components. It can prevent their cooling solution/s from running optimally which does have the ability to cause overheating and lower the lifespan of your components. If you follow safe hardware removal practices then you most likely will not find yourself breaking any computer hardware. Tips such as wearing an antistatic wristband or touching a metal part of your case/connected PSU from time to time is a good practice to prevent shocking and damaging electronics with static electricity. If you be gentle in general when you work inside your computer system you most likely will not find yourself damaging any computer hardware. Using a compressed air can (without coming in contact with computer components is most likely going to be pretty safe unless you accidentally blow off a capacitor using a powerful electronic air compressor or worse a  leaf blower. I will include some helpful videos which I think are going to be helpful in removing dust from your computer system.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2018 by Boomwebsearch
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[ynn0s]

3 hours ago, Boomwebsearch said:

In general, dust is not something that is good for computer components and it can be considered as an element which is a contaminant when it is on computer components. It can prevent their cooling solution/s from running optimally which does have the ability to cause overheating and lower the lifespan of your components. If you follow safe hardware removal practices then you most likely will not find yourself breaking any computer hardware. Tips such as wearing an antistatic wristband or touching a metal part of your case/connected PSU from time to time is a good practice to prevent shocking and damaging electronics with static electricity. If you be gentle in general when you work inside your computer system you most likely will not find yourself damaging any computer hardware. Using a compressed air can (without coming in contact with computer components is most likely going to be pretty safe unless you accidentally blow off a capacitor using a powerful electronic air compressor or worse a  leaf blower. I will include some helpful videos which I think are going to be helpful in removing dust from your computer system.

 

 

 

 

thanks for linking the vids. Oh, and btw, do you recommend removing my GPU then blowing the dust off. Or doing it how Linus did it? I feel like if I just blow air directly into the case it wouldn't do much since the GPU is the main spot that has dust, and just blowing air directly into the case would just make the dust settle back somewhere else in my case.