Keeping Dust Down!

Darkmike · 12 Nov 2008 at 00:52

Ive Got a Antec 900 and a pretty messy cable arrangement 2bh.

The case inside is jus filled with dust.

Anything i can do to keep it down?

Cheers.

Daniel · 12 Nov 2008 at 01:30

Vacuum your room and pay attention to the area around your PC. You can also try installing some fan filters so that you don't have to clean the whole PC as much.

Phil2008 · 12 Nov 2008 at 01:35

I have mine on the desk, and I dont find it gets too dusty, yeh the front outside builds up with dust afer a few days but the inside isnt to bad, these pics are about a months worth of dust..

Phil2008 · 12 Nov 2008 at 01:39

And thats the 900 on my desk

JeffyB · 12 Nov 2008 at 02:56

I generally clean my fans, heatsinks and grills every few weeks, i have cats and they seem to quickly fill up, thats the grills not the cats

Wizzkidy · 12 Nov 2008 at 06:56

I find I have to clean mine out every month, I have cats as well and find its really does fill up.

All I do is take my whole base unit outside and blow it for 5 minutes, I then just get a small brush and remove any stuck bits

WJA96 · 12 Nov 2008 at 07:13

Daniel said:
Vacuum your room and pay attention to the area around your PC.

Vacuuming is best.

Dust is basically you and yours. Your skin, particles of saliva, semen and hair. So basically cover up and stop downloading so much pr0n.

beefybarn · 12 Nov 2008 at 08:00

Buy a decent case with filters

Craigius · 12 Nov 2008 at 08:32

Same here clean the room every week where the PC is leave the window open as much as i can and clean the filters out every 3 weeks or so.

gt_junkie · 12 Nov 2008 at 08:43

Filters and low speed fans are my recommendation.

I've had my UFO running for a few months now and haven't needed to vac anything apart from the filters.

The fact it has open grilled sides and roof is even more astonishing.

Here are a few pics of the case and deskspace: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12509506&postcount=1479

gt

Craigius · 12 Nov 2008 at 09:57

gt_junkie said:
Filters and low speed fans are my recommendation.

I've had my UFO running for a few months now and haven't needed to vac anything apart from the filters.

The fact it has open grilled sides and roof is even more astonishing.

Here are a few pics of the case and deskspace: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12509506&postcount=1479

gt

I have to say mate that rig looks very clean........... to say you have had it running a few months

Tetsu · 12 Nov 2008 at 10:07

Phil2008 said:
I have mine on the desk, and I dont find it gets too dusty, yeh the front outside builds up with dust afer a few days but the inside isnt to bad, these pics are about a months worth of dust..

That's a massive amount of dust for only one month! my pc-7 didnt even look like that after 14 months. Get some dust filters

Phil2008 · 12 Nov 2008 at 11:08

Tetsu said:
That's a massive amount of dust for only one month! my pc-7 didnt even look like that after 14 months. Get some dust filters

Dust filters are too much of a work up to cleam them, cos the hdd cages need to come out to get at them, you see the hoover under the desk, well it can be used as a blower too, so it only takes like 5mins every 3 months to blow out the case. and thats a hell of a lot quicker then messing with dust filters

gt_junkie · 12 Nov 2008 at 11:46

Craigius said:
I have to say mate that rig looks very clean........... to say you have had it running a few months

Thanks fella.

Yeah, filters are so useful and really reduce the headache of carefully hoovering around expensive components.

gt

Tetsu · 12 Nov 2008 at 11:59

Phil2008 said:
Dust filters are too much of a work up to cleam them, cos the hdd cages need to come out to get at them, you see the hoover under the desk, well it can be used as a blower too, so it only takes like 5mins every 3 months to blow out the case. and thats a hell of a lot quicker then messing with dust filters

Fair play

domthecondom · 12 Nov 2008 at 13:20

use Tights as fan filters

EsaT · 12 Nov 2008 at 17:15

gt_junkie said:
Filters and low speed fans are my recommendation.
I've had my UFO running for a few months now and haven't needed to vac anything apart from the filters.
The fact it has open grilled sides and roof is even more astonishing.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12509506&postcount=1479

No miracles in there...
Pictures don't show everything but looks like there's well more intake fans than exhausts (positive pressure) so all air going into case is quaranteed to go through those filters.

gt_junkie · 12 Nov 2008 at 17:25

EsaT said:
No miracles in there...
Pictures don't show everything but looks like there's well more intake fans than exhausts (positive pressure) so all air going into case is quaranteed to go through those filters.

Exactomundo!

4x 120mm sharkoons on intake duties and only the PSU, GTX 260 and Icy dock ehausting air.

gt

Craigius · 12 Nov 2008 at 18:22

gt_junkie said:
Exactomundo!

4x 120mm sharkoons on intake duties and only the PSU, GTX 260 and Icy dock ehausting air.

gt

Might have to try that on my case and alter the air flow.

EsaT · 12 Nov 2008 at 20:05

Controlling airflow has other advantages beside giving best cooling vs. noise ratio...
Positive pressure case is probably easier to keep dust free because there's no need to caulk every crack and hole (way too common in most cases) but neither is negative pressure case any worser if intake fan holes are only places where air can get into case.