When cleaning my PC, people are saying to use compressed air? Should i believe them?

**oscaryu1** · 01-31-2008, 12:41 AM

It's fine, although spraying at the fan can be bad if you run the fan excess of it's normal fan speed, like making it run unintentionally at 5000RPM with compressed air when it's normal speed is 2.8k RPM or so.

Garethman!!` · 01-31-2008, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _simon_

I use the vacuum cleaner. Don't see the point in blowing the dust around.

Thats the most dangerous way to clean a PC because of ESD. Learned it in A+

Stildawn · 01-31-2008, 08:10 PM

I use combination compressed air and vaccum cleaner. The best way as the high speed compressed air dislodges the dust and gets imediately sucked up. And its best to remove as much from the motherboard as possible, Do all cards separately.

Its amazing how much you computer performance can increase from a good cleaning

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oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,154	It's fine, although spraying at the fan can be bad if you run the fan excess of it's normal fan speed, like making it run unintentionally at 5000RPM with compressed air when it's normal speed is 2.8k RPM or so. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

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Stildawn Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 218	I use combination compressed air and vaccum cleaner. The best way as the high speed compressed air dislodges the dust and gets imediately sucked up. And its best to remove as much from the motherboard as possible, Do all cards separately. Its amazing how much you computer performance can increase from a good cleaning __________________ Old/New CPU: AMD 2000+/AMD X2 6000+ RAM: 512 DDR/4GB DDR2 MOBO: MSI/GIGABYTE SP AM2 GPU: MX440/ATi HD4870 1gb - Just got this and its awesome!!!! Lol HDD: 40gb & 80gb Seagate/500gb Seagate

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