Dust hacks, Best filters, vacuums or air can

[slim01]

Hey all
So I took out my 3070 which was mined for 4 months, to try new 3080ti and Holy hell the dust... Blanket of it over the cpu cooler, and 3070 looks 3 years old.

Now I always prefer no filters, and dremel out fan grilles for max airflow/lower rpm's, then just clean once every year. But every 4 months is too much, and 3080ti is daaamn expensive.

So what do you guys use to get rid of dust?
-bicycle pump (and two people) ?
-rubbish little ball pump thing?
-Use your car mate mechanics air compressor?

-filters (what do you guys think are best for airflow?)
On ocuk they have:
>demciflex (seem like a rip off) at £10 each
>cut your own dustend g1 £19 for 950mm
>Silverstone ultra fine mesh £5.45
>Akasa aluminium £3.5

Or...
-Air vacuum/blower: compucleaner £45
(do these ACTUALLY remove all dust from heatsinks? More than canned air?). Would normally need to survive 10+ years to beat value of...
-£13 for 3 cans of canned air.

 

[slim01]

Seems like a big win for the compucleaner... Always thought £50 for a blower was way overpriced but they seem to go recommended by everyone.

Are they really better than air cans though? I would have imagined canned air with the tiny little straws would be better for getting inside heatsinks/rads as it will actually fit in between the fins?

 

[slim01]

I've never used cans, so I can't offer a direct comparison. But, I found using the narrow nozzle on the Compucleaner along with its high speed setting produced a focused enough stream of air to basically blast the dust out of a radiator.

All of it or just the majority?

 

[slim01]

Have dust filters (Demciflex funnily enough) on my main setups intakes. Exhaust fan points are not filtered though.

Just use a paint brush and give a quick dust down every so often on the inside and leave it at that. Very little dust because the filters catch most of the dust from airflow pulled into the case, and all the fan points are covered by another self made shroud covering/section that I've added that helps prevent dust naturally settling down into the case via the vents (and also helps reduce fan noise from escaping the case and also helps smooth out the sound of any noise escaping from the case from the foam "ducting" that I've added to help reduce escaping noise).

These comments and also the sales pitches on filter sales listings always interests me. The only time I did use filters I found the noise was actually a lot louder as the fans had to speed up due to the restriction of airflow. I was using the extra fine style. They did catch most of the dust however...

Before I modded my current HTPC with 3x14cm intakes (I set the rest on the sides to exhaust) it was literally an oven in there, cooking after 5 mins. Took all filters off, and basically all case temps (mobo and ssd etc) are barely above ambient now. Just need to figure out how to cool this new 5800x