My afternoon well spent (with pics)

millsy888 · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:21

It's been long over due that i cleaned the fans out on my Antec 900, notorious for collecting every partical
of dust within a 2 mile radius

So lets start off with a few before pics.
Keep in mind that it's been 6 months since i cleaned the fans out.

HDD bay

Cage

The Antec 'Big Boy' top fan

O.K i had my work cut out this afternoon, what started to be a simple clean up turned into a couple of hours

And so onto the after pics.

Shiny cage

HDD's back in place

So now i get to thinking, what can i do to minimise all this dust collecting in the drive bays, so off to the shop
to get a pair of tights to wrap the fans in.

The 'Big Boy' gets a clean

And finally the aftermath of cleaning the 2 front fans, and the top fan can been seen :eek:

Apologies for pic quality, was taken with carp phone.

*edit*

case temp down by 8 degrees and HDD's temps are down by 4-5 degrees

cold-peak · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:40

Wow much cleaner, however do make your pics a little smaller

- Massive on my Mac's 13" screen!

Audigex · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:42

Ah yes, carp phones - I hear they work best under water.

My word that was a dusty case - were your temps taking a bashing with all the extra insulation? It looks great now, nice and shiny so hopefully the tights will keep it that way :-)

Mr-White · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:44

do you smoke ?

MW

millsy888 · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:45

Mr-White said:
do you smoke ?

MW

no, my gf does though, and she has now been banned to the back garden when she comes round \

/

CK61938 · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:58

millsy888 said:
no, my gf does though, and she has now been banned to the back garden when she comes round \/

Now that's more like it

however let me turn your attention to this:

Antec 1000 Plusview

I have had that for 5yrs...but for two of those I gave it to a friend of mine to use...look at how much dust accumulated in that time...took me 2hrs to clean the poor baby. She is now being used as my FTP server.

CK61938 · 20 Apr 2009 at 20:59

cold-peak said:
Wow much cleaner, however do make your pics a little smaller - Massive on my Mac's 13" screen!

thats what u get for a Mac lol...sorry I couldnt help it

millsy888 · 20 Apr 2009 at 21:05

cold-peak said:
Wow much cleaner, however do make your pics a little smaller - Massive on my Mac's 13" screen!

pics edited for small mac boy

millsy888 · 20 Apr 2009 at 21:17

CK61938 said:
Now that's more like it

however let me turn your attention to this:

Antec 1000 Plusview

I have had that for 5yrs...but for two of those I gave it to a friend of mine to use...look at how much dust accumulated in that time...took me 2hrs to clean the poor baby. She is now being used as my FTP server.

pics loading slow for me, but from what i've seen :eek:

will take a proper look later when FB isn't being silly.

*edit*

ok FB is playing ball with me now. Just looked at the cleaning job you did, and i gota say great job

I'm surprised that cpu fan didn't fail with all that dust in it.

RJC · 20 Apr 2009 at 21:25

Very clean, good work

matthewhotdude · 20 Apr 2009 at 23:07

Thats mental!

rjk · 20 Apr 2009 at 23:12

ive seen and smelled worse

Diggsy · 20 Apr 2009 at 23:26

rjkoneill said:
ive seen and smelled worse

Are we still talking PCs here Rich?

CK61938 · 21 Apr 2009 at 01:31

Diggsy said:
Are we still talking PCs here Rich?

I should hope we are

CK61938 · 21 Apr 2009 at 01:33

millsy888 said:
pics loading slow for me, but from what i've seen

will take a proper look later when FB isn't being silly.

*edit*

ok FB is playing ball with me now. Just looked at the cleaning job you did, and i gota say great job

I'm surprised that cpu fan didn't fail with all that dust in it.

I was surprised it worked at all after what i put it through to clean it...the only fail tho was the PSU...taking apart was a bad idea but it needed cleaning...so I had to buy a new PSU for the machine...which was ok since it only cost £8 for new PSU and was only being used for FTP purposes...

halliwelldj · 21 Apr 2009 at 01:49

CK61938 said:
Now that's more like it

however let me turn your attention to this:

Antec 1000 Plusview

I have had that for 5yrs...but for two of those I gave it to a friend of mine to use...look at how much dust accumulated in that time...took me 2hrs to clean the poor baby. She is now being used as my FTP server.

That is crazy dusty, no point in having fans with that amount of dust! Lol.

b-star · 21 Apr 2009 at 01:53

OMG... I Clean fans at least once a week, as they become dusty so quick, despite my room is always tidy

Remainds me of scene from "the lord of the rings" in Orcs "house"

BeeP · 21 Apr 2009 at 08:27

I clean mine yearly....whether I need to or not!

Wow I think that case is even more mingin than my kids case.

Wiggins · 21 Apr 2009 at 10:24

I cleaned all 7 of my 12cm fans on Saturday after 2 months and they were pretty bad.

I even have filters on the intake fans and still they were dusty. They must work though as I hardly had any dust on the hardware.

mrthingyx · 21 Apr 2009 at 11:15

Cats for the ultimate fail...

Although that is quite impressive (especially the results!), you know your PC is dusty when it starts shutting down randomly.