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I have dust guards over my intake fans, so it's just a matter of sliding them out every 6 months or so and wiping them down then I'm good to go for another 6 months.
How often do you clean your Rig?
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About once every 3 months except in the winter. Whenever I wash the car I take it outside and hose it off. It is just too cold in the wintertime.
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Posts : 397 6x W2K8 R2 (x64), 6x W7 7600 (x64), 2x Gentoo (x64), 1x Ubuntu 9.04 (x64), 1x pfSense (FreeBSD)New #16
About twice a month I'll vacuum and . Living in Houston and not being a fan of AC my house stays a little warm. If I don't keep the computers clean they will get hotter than I like.
What laptop? If your warranty has expired it is definitely worth opening them up and cleaning. The dust will build up and eventually kill the fan. I learned the hard way with a Dell years ago, the fan gave out and the system would die several times a day when the CPU reached 98C.
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Seriously now. About every 3 months.
One thing I do that I encourage to others is, if their desktop arrangement places the computer tower on the floor, to get a "stand" of some kind to raise it off the floor 4-6 inches. This will minimize the amount of floor level "dust bunnies" that get sucked up by the intake fans/vents.
A nice "antique" wood packing box 9"w x 24"l x 6"h works very well for me personally (watch for them at yard-sales/flea-markets).
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Air Filters on the front of the case say once a month. Use compressed air inside say every three months.
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New #19
Being a warm dark place i tend to clean it as soon as i see the cockroaches running around it.
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New #20
doesn't your custom cooling system suck the cockroaches away? :)
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