Tips for running in a dusty environment

[Clint_001]

Hi chaps,

Does anyone have any tips for running in a dusty environment. Back story is I have a free desktop coming from a clear out at work and the plan is to use this as a dedicated media center. I live on the ground floor of a converted house so have a good 4ft of space under my floorboards and so can have the machine directly under my TV and stereo. However it is dusty under there, and not the easy to filter stuff, its very fine particles! As I see it there are two options....

1) Use the current case and build some sort of filtered enclosure around it (fine filters but big surface area to get the flow through it)

2) Mod the original case and try to improve the filtering + manage the air flow (a bit like a clean room with a down draft)

Any thoughts welcome!

 

[Clint_001]

I've used a similar area elsewhere in the flat for random storage. I used pva + floor paint on that and it still gets dusty down there!

So no one keen on option 1? I'm pretty sure I could build a decent enclosure for less than the price of floor paint, its pricey for good quality stuff!