Crap....

spirit

spirit

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beers said:
Christ, get some canned air on that thing..
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Nah I quit using those stupid cans of air. They get really expensive and didn't have enough pressure to blow the dust out of the last PC I tried to clean with them, let alone that heatsink. Bought a electric duster/vacuum combo for like £30 instead which lasts forever and doesn't have the moisture problem either. Obviously use the duster/blower, not the vacuum! Though the vacuum is great for vacuuming the car mats!)

@The VCR King if it's collecting that amount of dust in a week there's a problem! Is your PC sitting on carpet? If so raise it up a bit. I put mine some wooden blocks. Also make sure you clean your room - vacuum the room. You may be cleaning the wrong thing! ;) (having a case with no holes in it helps too!)
 
The VCR King

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spirit said:
Nah I quit using those stupid cans of air. They get really expensive and didn't have enough pressure to blow the dust out of the last PC I tried to clean with them, let alone that heatsink. Bought a electric duster/vacuum combo for like £30 instead which lasts forever and doesn't have the moisture problem either. Obviously use the duster/blower, not the vacuum! Though the vacuum is great for vacuuming the car mats!)

@The VCR King if it's collecting that amount of dust in a week there's a problem! Is your PC sitting on carpet? If so raise it up a bit. I put mine some wooden blocks. Also make sure you clean your room - vacuum the room. You may be cleaning the wrong thing! ;) (having a case with no holes in it helps too!)
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My PC is up on a desk a good 3-4 feet off the ground. The dust is mainly because I own a lot of pets (Long-haired cat, a dog that sheds a lot, and a hamster)

beers said:
Ah, yeah. I have a little compressor that's handy but I've also seen people try to shoot WAY too much PSI into the computer too (silly redneck relatives).

If that's an amount of dust after 1 week then you really need some filters for your house.
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Wouldn't be a terrible idea to have some put in, that's for sure :/
 
spirit

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beers said:
Ah, yeah. I have a little compressor that's handy but I've also seen people try to shoot WAY too much PSI into the computer too (silly redneck relatives).
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Yeah those little compressors are fine, but they're quite expensive, noisy and heavy - still gotta watch for the mositure too but they're way more powerful than those disposable cans of air. I have 5 cans of air sitting under my desk now, probably all depressurised. Might still be OK to use if I give them a good shake. How long do they last standing still? They've been still since October.

@The VCR King pet hair is a big problem. I'd suggest maybe stopping your pets getting close to the computer or the room. I mean seriously you either don't dust it down thoroughly each time you do it or if you are collecting that much dust in a week you need to do something (could explain all your PSU issues too, you know). Either one!
 
The VCR King

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spirit said:
Yeah those little compressors are fine, but they're quite expensive, noisy and heavy - still gotta watch for the mositure too but they're way more powerful than those disposable cans of air. I have 5 cans of air sitting under my desk now, probably all depressurised. Might still be OK to use if I give them a good shake. How long do they last standing still? They've been still since October.

@The VCR King pet hair is a big problem. I'd suggest maybe stopping your pets getting close to the computer or the room. I mean seriously you either don't dust it down thoroughly each time you do it or if you are collecting that much dust in a week you need to do something (could explain all your PSU issues too, you know). Either one!
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My pets don't get near my PC at all, I don't allow them in my office, but dust actually was my PSU issue. I blew so much dust out of the PSU that I had to clean my whole desk with a handi-vac. Ever since it hasn't shut down.

And also, is it possible that I've permanently damaged my PSU in some way from running it to the point of a well-done steak for nearly 2 years?

Also, just for the heck of it I put Fallout 4 on "ultra quality" and it is playing just fine. I'm running ultra quality at about 50FPS, all because I got more RAM!
 
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Darren

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The VCR King said:
Also, just for the heck of it I put Fallout 4 on "ultra quality" and it is playing just fine. I'm running ultra quality at about 50FPS, all because I got more RAM!
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Ultra at 50 FPS? I have a really hard time believing that, particularly just from an increase in RAM.
 
spirit

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The VCR King said:
And also, is it possible that I've permanently damaged my PSU in some way from running it to the point of a well-done steak for nearly 2 years?
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Could be possible but mine was pretty dusty and I had that running for 4 years and it's fine. Just see how it goes.
 
voyagerfan99

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The VCR King said:
1680x1050. It actually only played Ultra for about 15 minutes before it locked up and crashed
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And that's how you know you have an issue. It should still play on ultra, but it will play like shit. It shouldn't crash.
 
The VCR King

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Darren said:
Tell that to the Fallout devs, not his computer. It's liable to crash regardless of the settings.
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After I have someone else install my new cooler (I tried, but it was just really confusing to me and I don't want to damage my PC!) I'm getting a new PSU and a GPU, probably an R9 390, FOR SURE.
 
The VCR King

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Alright guys I think I have a GPU issue. I ran Fallout 4 in windowed mode and every time the game locked up at 1FPS and then began working again my computer popped up a message saying "AMD Display driver has stopped working and recovered successfully"
 
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