A lesson - Clean your CPU fans boys and girls!

Holy mother of the dust bunny, thank the sweet for my water cooling.
I had a PC.....sorry I have had loads of PC's though the shop door like this

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Holy crap, you live in a dusty house!

Try running the hoover round :D

My pc sits in my loft and isnt that dusty, even with insulation fibres floating around!
 
That 2nd image there is crazy. How can anyone let the dust gather that much is beyond me although I am a bit of a clean freak.
 
Thats what having 3 cats does for ya!

On a side note, im not not sure even that much dust was causing a problem.....

I stripped out the internals, fitted them into an old case - PC wouldnt boot, wouldnt even post, although the board had power. GRRRR!

So I returned everything to its home case, cabled everything up, turned it on - Fans span up, LED lights lit up, then 10 seconds or so it all shut off again.

Checked the 4 LED diagnostic lights on the motherboard, told me it had a RAM problem. Removed 1 stick of the Corsair DDR2, machine booted fine :D

Now just need to find out if I need to send both sticks back to them or one!
 
It would seem as though it is you who needs the lesson in cleaning your fans and not us...

*gazes lovingly at his beautifully spotless rig*
 
jakspyder said:
It would seem as though it is you who needs the lesson in cleaning your fans and not us...

*gazes lovingly at his beautifully spotless rig*
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Technically, that is correct :p

However, lesson is learned. Just thought I'd remind anyone else who might not have done it for a while, and make myself look a n00b into the bargain :D
 
That first pic reminds me a lot of one I had to sort out for a friend last week..it hasn't been cleaned since he bought it a couple of years earlier, not nice in terms of dust.

At least he didn't smoke though, that would have been really disgusting.
 
matt_fsr said:
Read my sig chaps ;)

I'm using a Silentium case. Airflow is totally different to most cases, no front fans, Arctic Cooling recommended the CPU fan be in that direction.

I've tried it both ways to be honest and it had very similar temps. When I used to remember to check my temps :o

This should explain:

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Ah ha. All is forgiven! :D :)
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VFM Addict said:
The flow around the hsf sort of makes sense but the flow round the gpu seems weird as it seems to be trying to drag down and out hot air that by its nature wants to rise. No wonder the psu isn't picking up too much dust.
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When you're dealing with mechanically forced air flow, you can pretty much ignore the effects of natural convection (i.e. the old 'heat rises' adage). It's negligable compared to the 10s of CFM you're shifting through the case with the fans. If you blow the warm air down it'll go down. The whole setup will work pretty much identically in any orientation. That's why all this PSU top vs PSU bottom stuff is a load of hot air (ha ha - you see what i did there:))
 
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