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Devrij

Devrij

Devrij

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I'm trying to combat dust in my case, and I believe my carpet and perpetually active feet may be contributing to the mountains of silt building inside my tower.

Is putting your case higher up really effective? If so, how much higher? I have no desk space for a full tower (and I'd be terrified of knocking it off anyway), so I'm going to improvise with a sort of side-table. How high does it need to be to sit above the clouds of foot-dust?

Prevention is the name of the game, and my filters seem to be useless.
 
I have mine on the table after moving home and find that the dust problem is less of an issue. I hoover the front filter just on the outside once a month and it's fine. My old case on the carpet even though I set it up on some rubbish old books I had got full of dust despite having filters.
 
Try and have slightly more incoming air than outgoing to create a small positive pressure in the case. This will keep the dust at bay. At least I think that's why mine stays clear (antec 900)
 
I have an NZXT phantom, and it's on carpet (although I stuck a folder under the back so it could draw air to the PSU). I suspect the culprit is the front intake fan, as it isn't filtered and is always the worst when I go to clean it. The others are all filtered, but a fair amount of dust gets in them anyway.

I have 3 120mm intakes, 1 120mm exhaust, and one 240mm exhaust in the roof. 2 of the intakes are going sideways across the HDD bays, and it looks as though they exhaust out the other side judging by the dust on the inside of the mesh. I'm wondering what the front intake does when it hits that wall of sideways air tbh.

I can't add a side-panel fan because my cooler is slightly too tall, and although it's filtered, the filter has pretty poor coverage on the side panel so I suspect dust drifts in there too. I guess I could add a 5.25 bay intake fan to increase positive pressure (and cooling).
 
I agree, put a filter on.
I have the same case, same fan setup, and I went to clean it for the first time in 3 months yesterday, I opened it, slipped my finger across various items, and there were no dust a vacuum could clean.
 
Pelinox said:
I agree, put a filter on.
I have the same case, same fan setup, and I went to clean it for the first time in 3 months yesterday, I opened it, slipped my finger across various items, and there were no dust a vacuum could clean.
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Interesting. Do you have it on carpet/wood/desk?What fans you using? More to the point, which filters?
 
If you have dust on your shelves, desktop, bookcase and/or on top of door sill than your computer will collect dust wherever you put it. I'm retired, no pets, (except wife), my den is just me, hardwood floor, radiator heat, very little dust collects anywhere... and I still need to hoover intake filters every other week. ;)

As said above positve airflow/pressure and filtered intake is best solution.
 
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