How often are you cleaning your PC?

Farore · Tuesday at 06:37

How often does everyone do some cleaning and maintenance on their PC?

Dusting, changing CPU paste ect.

Does it change if its used more often for gaming? If your PC is left on 24 hours?

I did a clean after a year or more, and it made a huge difference to temps. The fans spin up less often for the AIO.

AndyCr15 · Tuesday at 06:50

Wait... I have to clean and maintain my PC?!

haaammit · Tuesday at 09:44

Main PC (at desk level) blow rads out and clean filters maybe every 6 months. The loop is due a drain/flush and check over soon, will probably repaste the CPU when it's drained, along with the GPU, and probably repad that as my hotspot delta is slightly higher than I'd like. Prolly give the fans a wipe then as well as a bit of a dust inside as well.
NAS - opened up to change a noisy fan, gave it a quick once over then, otherwise pretty much never
Server (on the floor, I know, I know) vacuum the front maybe once a month.

pepp77 · Tuesday at 09:56

Servers which are in the loft and doesnt get much dust I just leave, my desktop PC which is on 24/7 gets a filter dust and fan blow every couple of months or so.

pastymuncher · Tuesday at 09:56

I clean the intake dust filters every month and aside from that nothing else needs doing.

tamzzy · Tuesday at 10:10

I clean once a year, or when i open it up to swap parts. The PC is sat on my desk so not much dust.

Simon Belmont · Tuesday at 10:17

when I see it full of dust. every 6 months or so

Genoma · Tuesday at 10:48

Probably once a year (looks at the server box..)

CaptainRAVE · Tuesday at 10:49

Rarely, my gaming room is pretty clean, so little dust accumulates. The climate control system filters out a fair bit too.

scrivz69 · Tuesday at 10:59

Did mine yesterday just cleaned the dust filters and wiped out any other dust that was visible.

throwaway4372 · Tuesday at 11:03

I give it a thorough dust when the weather gets hot, otherwise just hoover the dust filter when it occurs to me. I never replace paste (maybe I should but it hasn't mattered so far).

WARburton · Tuesday at 11:17

all the time, like weekly sometimes twice a week. getting a case with a glass top may have been a bad idea lol

Jay_t · Tuesday at 12:25

Every 6 months or so. Usually when I can see too much dirt in the way of the fan leds.

Fluffybob · Tuesday at 14:51

Every 6 months or so, my PC is next to me on a desk so I can usually see a buildup on the front panel side vents.

Ollie83 · Tuesday at 15:03

Not nearly as much as I should. I saw a place advertising on FB to clean your PC for £40... Didn't even know "detailing" a PC was a thing

Adam_101 · Tuesday at 15:14

About once every two weeks it gets a good clean.

eurokage · Tuesday at 20:32

Depends. On when my brother can be arsed to do it.

freddie64 · Tuesday at 20:51

Regularly clean the outside of the case, air vents, glass panel and such.

I did do the inside a few months ago when i swapped my NVME drives around, but to be honest there wasn't much dust anyway.

adidan · Tuesday at 20:57

When I move house

im4gine3 · 2025-02-19T09:50:38+0000

every time i do a major upgrade.. e.g. bleeding water loop or rebuilding.. typically every 2-3 years.. unless i see a performance change or rig getting toastier, i check the fan filters