dust

If i wanted to cover my pc with something in order to prevent dust from getting in, while the pc is not in use or even if i needed to keep it in storage for a long time, what would be an okay material to do so? With my previous PC, that still works to this day, i simply has been using a plastic...

I starting having overheating issues a few months ago and fixed it by taking off the clear piece of my case. I have had my gpu for over 2 years now and never had any sort of overheating problem ever until recently. Then in the last few weeks, the overheating got more frequent and I started to...

Hello guys, I recently went inside my pc to discover there was a bit of dust inside of it. I don't know if this is a lot of dust or just a little, and will this reduce the life of my computer? it doesn't seem to overheat but it does get louder when I play stuff on it. especially poppy playtime...

Sorry, not sure where to put this. I am a casual gamer and recently used a canned air duster on my laptop keyboard whilst switched off. I noticed that on one of the keys after there was a bit of liquid / condensation for a few seconds which then went away. The keyboard seems to be working okay...

Hello, So I was wondering how often you clean out pc. Is it every 6 months? and can I use Compu cleaner and just blow all the dust-out and finish? Thanks Gerjaffers

Im trying to get into the habit of cleaning my pc every 4-6 months and its been 5 but I dont have any compressed air so I asked my parents if I could get some or an air blower but instead they asked me if I could just use and air mattress pump, and that makes a lot of sense since it does blow...

Does dust on the CPU pins degrade CPU performance in any way? I have the Ryzen 5 3600

What the title says so basically here is what is troubling me: i got the new vertex series and before i started to install it I started to uninstall my old psu until I saw dust around the 16-pin adapter.After removing the adapter this is the final result. I am quite paranoid about the gpu and...

My pc wasn't turning on so took to my pc vendor he said the motherboard was busted cause of dust that i didn't clean for few months. is that possible?

hello! how can i remove the dust from the notebook? every time i open the notebook i find everything full of dust and i don't know how i can remove it... i wanted to try a hair dryer, however i am afraid of static electricity

I was planning on getting this lambswool feather duster for my room as well as dusting the outside of my laptop, is it safe? Do these dusters build up a significant amount of static electricity, and if they do is it ok for it to discharge on the laptop from the outside? What if it's powered on...

Is it ever ok in general to use compressed air on laptop internals without dissassembling first if you just want to blow a little bit of dust out, or will it be dangerous since you can send whatever is flying inside on the mother board and you won't know? You HAVE to disassemble your laptop...

At first I thought it was dust, they are white and very small. I first noticed them when the occasional one would crawl across my phone screen laying in bed (pc is in my bedroom). I looked them up and google came up with like 1000 different bugs it could be. However due to them being really...

Specs- cpu: Ryzen 5 1600 gpu: GTX 1060 memory: 16GB RAM When I play any game, there is no issue in the initial 2 minutes of gameplay. But thereafter, the GPU temperature rises to 96 celcius and CPU temperature hovers around 50 celcius. When this happens .i.e. when the gpu temperature reaches 96...

So basically, I have a Fractal Design Torrent case which is an EXTREMELY positive pressure focused case. I recently got myself a RTX 3070 MSI Gaming Z card which came with a GPU sag bracket, but in order to be able to install the GPU sag bracket, I had to remove almost every single PCI-E bracket...

I've had my pc for maybe 5-6 months and during those 5-6 months i haven't cleaned it and right now the performance in games is really unplayable. I've tried everything updating drivers, resetting my pc nothing is working so i'm wondering if the dust in my pc could affect performance

https://streamable.com/n6fa43 That is the sound right there, the sound is very inconsistent and just started up again this morning. I had thought it was the PSU, since I had loosened the screws that hold it. (The first rattling occurrence was close to when I loosened screws) But the recording...

I bought a card reader (https://www.newegg.com/p/0DS-00DC-00001?Item=9SIACJF5528905). There are gaps in the front panel where the ports for the cards are located - (click to see picture). You can white under the ports in the second row, that's an envelope behind the unit. You can also see a gap...

So I'm looking for a PC case that has good airflow and I glanced at this case, it has a fan on the back of the motherboard, and if in theory the wind that is generated will quite reduce the heat of the motherboard from behind, and the fan position is intake So the question is whether this will...

PC Cabinet fans got those dust filter mesh net, can i manually paste them on my PS5's intake grill/vent ? Will that affect cooling a lot ?

There was a smell of burning dust or plastic , i couldn't see any obvious cables or burnt marks inside my computer case, so i dusted it, it's been maybe a year or a little over since last time i dusted it, so it was really needed anyways. I tried to locate the smell but there was no obvious...

i have an aerocool eclipse case and it has 3 dust filters one on top of case ,one on bottom and one where front panel fans my question is can they cleaned with water ? if so only water with no other products ?

I am currently unemployed and I do not want to spend any money if possible. I want to remove dust from inside my desktop computer. A hair dryer sucks air in from one end and shoots all that air out from the other end. I plan to use the suction/intake end of a hair dryer to suck dust out of my...

Hello Tom's Hardware community! My friend has an Intel Core i5-4590S that has been used for more than a year now. It has been running very well until yesterday. It decided not to boot up my friend's PC, not even POST. So I tried the following diagnostic steps: swapping motherboards, removing...

I recently built my new PC, and I used the KOLINK Citadel Micro ATX case. IT came with two case fans, and one magnetic dust filter, that goes on top. I've configured one of my fans to take air in from the rear of the case, where the IO is, and one to push air out from the top, directly above my...

So, after cleaning out my PC via compressed air from an air compressor, all of the stuff in the title is happening. I have reset the CMOS via jumper and removing the battery. I have taken everything out and put it back in. I have tried running it without any memory and it doesn’t beep. I have...

Hello, I have an Alienware Aurora and I was wondering if it is bad to hear the fans while the pc is on. I would like to know how loud is it supposed to be, and if I should be worried if I can hear the fans. They aren't too loud, but i can hear them when my headphones are off and I can hear them...

The front of my PC case has a ton of empty external drive bays, all of which have covers that are list vents. Then there is a vent on the top and side of my case. All of these vents are unfiltered, so I find that a decent amount of dust accumulates in my case after a fairly short period of time...

Hi all, I haven’t built a new rig in 10 years. I’ve been reading through articles and have landed on most of my components but something grabed me and I want to make sure I’m doing it right. I was looking for cases with superior dust and pet hair exclusion and the cases say they can...

This may seem like an unusual thread, but I don't think so. So, I live next to a very busy road and my room is the closest to the street and that is where my desk and my PC are placed. I like having a wide open window, especially in the summer and I like sleeping with it open. I recently got...

Hello. I want to add some intake fans to make positive airflow in my case (Aerocool Cylon, https://www.aerocool.com.tw/en/chssis/pgs-v/cylon) for optimal cooling for my Ryzen 5 2600x and GTX 1050 ti 4GB. People do tell me to get a new case, but that's simply not an option for me, since im 13...

Hello, I have the Aerocool Cylon case and i am going to order some more case fans (be quiet! Pure wings 2 120mm to be specific) but my front case is kind of chocked for air, except for tiny gaps and an opening at the bottom, at the front and the front is not filtered (and i don't have many...

So a few years ago I bought this used Asus K53SC, and ever since I've bought it there's been some dust in the screen. I waited, since I might get used to it, but after 2 years I still get annoyed every day. I can't get a picture of it, because you will only see the squared lines arround the...

I recently bought a GTX 1070 to replace my old 770. Originally I didn't know what to do with it so I just stored it away. However, I use my PC for rendering and after some searching I discovered that I could use both my new 1070 and old 770 together (I use Daz Studio). I threw the 770 back in my...

Hi, my GPU, at 97-100% load, is stable at 85 C. No matter if I open the case or if I added 2 more fans in the PC case. Fully load stay at 85 C. Idle is 32 -35 C. Is that 85 C a normal temp at fully load? I saw around here everybody talk about 70 - 80 C... its true I had an evga graphic card...

I want to purchase A- tech Ram for iMac Mid 2010. So, which is the best between A-Tech and OWC.

Hi This is for my friend who has sold has Macbook Pro 2015 to get a AIO Winodws Desktop, Tbh I tried to put him off All In Ones mainly due to their lack of upgrade options, but he doesn't want a tower unit & wants the AIO form factor. The two units he is interested in are both HP (he just...

I just want to know if I could use amazon fire stick on a laptop. I do understand that the HDMI port on my laptop is for output data, not input which is the one amazon fire stick needs. So how can I go about to do it?

Specs: Cpu: Intel i5 8400 Gpu: gtx 1060 6gb Ram: Ripjaws 8gb

I disconnected all the components connected to my PSU and tested with multimeter there is only ~2.9V between green wire and black wire. Is this an indication my PSU is broken? Thanks.