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Used canned air on a client's PC for 6 years before a guy in Phoenix pointed at my own tower
I was at a buddy's place in Phoenix last month and he watched me blast the dust out of a laptop with a can, then he just turned my own desktop around and pointed at the fan. It was caked solid, and I mean a gray felt mat you could peel off in one piece, because all that canned air did was push the junk deeper into the fins. He handed me a $12 anti-static brush and said he stopped using cans back in 2019 after he cooked a GPU fan bearing with the cold spray. I pulled my tower apart that night and found dust packed behind the front filter so thick it was blocking maybe 40% of the airflow. Now I brush everything outside and only hit tight spots with short bursts. How do you all deal with the dust that gets past the filters, shop vac or something else?
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noah9143d ago
lmao same thing happened to me, I thought my case was clean because the side window looked fine, then I pulled the front panel off and it was straight up felt in there. now I just take the whole thing outside and go at it with a brush every few months, way less drama than the vacuum
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