Temps without dust filters!

Zeebedy · 16 Oct 2019 at 15:28

Hey guys,

I removed two of my dust filters, one on the bottom of my case, and the other on the top where my CPU rad is situated.

Couldnt belive the difference, it shed a good few degrees off my CPU (only one on the GPU).

So playing a 64 man conquest on BFV (which is the game I use for testing, as it hammers GPU and CPU) I was peaking on my GPU 65c and the CPU was averaging 48-52c!

Might need to clean it a little bit more regular, but the saved temps I think is a fair trade-off!

Disco_P · 16 Oct 2019 at 17:51

Dust filters normally go back in the case box after building a system. Takes at least a year for temps to reach filtered levels due to dust and it's not hard to clean the rads etc once a year.

Len Dananey · 16 Oct 2019 at 18:40

On the Phanteks Primo the dust filters just slide out, clean mine at least once a month, run them under taps and dry them off.

doyll · 17 Oct 2019 at 12:53

If you have case fans with decent pressure rating they draw air through filter with no problems. Problem is some (many) cases come with fans having such extremely low pressure ratings that unless ran at full speed they move almost no air, and even at full speed are about as good as good fans with decent pressure ratings are at idle or slightly faster.

I hoover my filters. Do it same time I do the house. They don't collect much between hoovers, but doing it every hoover means I don't forget them.

FlyingScotsman · 1 Nov 2019 at 13:53

I'm the same as you doyll, I hoover mine when I do the man cave.

doyll · 1 Nov 2019 at 17:44

it only takes a few seconds and we don't need to worry about fitlers ever filling up .. that's assuming PSU filter slides out front so user doesn't have to move tower to remove and hoover it's filter.