When did you last degunk your cruncher(s)?

TheTross · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:21

I had a peek inside mine today to see if an nVidia card would fit (they all seem to be longer than the Radeon 3650 I have) and saw what can only be described as a veritable bird's nest residing on and in the CPU heatsink. After a thorough dusting (including the intake dust filters on the front of the case), I noticed the CPU temp for all four cores has dropped by up to 4°C

loudbob · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:28

Sweet.....

I do mine once a month. Best to keep on thop of these things.

Marine Iguana · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:31

I do mine once a month just a little tidy up gets quite dusty on case floor and i don't like that.

diogenese · 29 Sep 2009 at 20:48

I don't do it at all

then I don't have any fans to suck the dust in with. Water cooling everything has some extra benefits

dekez · 29 Sep 2009 at 21:24

Usually whenever I'm tinkering around inside and I notice it. The front case fans of my antec get pretty dirty, so I do them around once a month.

Happy · 29 Sep 2009 at 21:31

I wipe the front air vents on my Lian Li once a week, and hoover the front air filters around once a month.

Stuart Gibson · 29 Sep 2009 at 23:05

Most of my fans don't have filters, so they push more air for better cooling.

They get clagged up pretty fast but the Dyson soon removes it.

About once a month (or so; it's easy to forget - I hate housework!).

NightmareXX · 30 Sep 2009 at 00:24

Haven't touched the boxes in my cupboard since they were put there but temps haven't changed so I presume it's all ok.

J!nx · 4 Oct 2009 at 13:55

First time I did mine I'd left it for a long whiiile, temperature dropped about 5-10c instantly. First time it set my asthma off two fold by the end of the day and I suffered through the night mow I do it about every month or so, it's quite enjoyable in an extremely odd way, and doesn't set off my asthma so it must have been reaally bad.