General / Off-Topic over-heating, over-clogged PC case?

southofborder

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As a gamer, I think this is common problem. But now it's getting serious when my dog's getting older and older and he wanders every corner of my gaming room and his dander also stuck in the filter :( and even underneath the mainboard T_______T

So I'm coming up with the idea of putting my Clair air purifier BF2025 in my bedroom so all of those particles and dust and extras will be swallowed.

That's a hypothesis. Any practical experience?
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
as a cat owner i've got to say there is no substitute for regular cleaning, PC's suck in air and with it any dust/pet hairs, if you point the exhaust of your air purifier directly at the PC it may help but you will still need to clean it out every so often.
 

macaddict

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Even I'm facing the same issue . I don't own a pet but I have the tendency to smoke a lot infront of my gaming PC while I'm working and this led to serious dust issues which in turn led to overheating.I use a dust vac for the external cleaning and compressed can for cleaning inside the PC.

To be frank there is no substitute for cleaning. You will have to open the case and then clean the PC using compressed air. Pet hair,carpets etc can lead to over heating. I think using an air purifier is not a bad idea as far as you are using it as a preventive measure. Such small steps will go a long way in making sure you won't have a dust ladden PC . btw even I was looking for cheap ineffective ways to clean my PC let me know if this air purifier really works but to be honest I feel air purifiers are noisy aren't they ? I remember a colleague of mine purchased one a couple of months back and told me he couldn't sleep with that thing switched on because it made a lot of noise.
 

southofborder

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macaddict said:
Even I'm facing the same issue . I don't own a pet but I have the tendency to smoke a lot infront of my gaming PC while I'm working and this led to serious dust issues which in turn led to overheating.I use a dust vac for the external cleaning and compressed can for cleaning inside the PC.

To be frank there is no substitute for cleaning. You will have to open the case and then clean the PC using compressed air. Pet hair,carpets etc can lead to over heating. I think using an air purifier is not a bad idea as far as you are using it as a preventive measure. Such small steps will go a long way in making sure you won't have a dust ladden PC . btw even I was looking for cheap ineffective ways to clean my PC let me know if this air purifier really works but to be honest I feel air purifiers are noisy aren't they ? I remember a colleague of mine purchased one a couple of months back and told me he couldn't sleep with that thing switched on because it made a lot of noise.
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I don't know which one is worse for PC, smoke or pet dander. But air purifier has function of capturing all of these types of particles and allergens, so I expect Clair will well-perform its task.
However, I have no idea with your definition of "cheap". I bought Clair from this site: http://go-clair.com at $160 price. This series is more expensive on eBay so, let's see.
 

macaddict

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I just checked the Clair product website .

$160 falls well within my definition of cheap . I have seen room air purifiers like IQ air which are far more expensive in the range of $900 and above that's why I was a little skeptical about your air purifier idea. To me it looks like this Clair air purifier is very simple yet efficient. Also I happened to notice it operates silently.Not at all bad ..

I'm thinking maybe I could use one.
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
I have a feeling it won't have a huge effect. What little good it does will simply being transferring the problems form the computer to the filter.

As others have said, regular cleaning. Moreover, you may just need to accept that your environment is particularly dusty. Not that it's dirty, we are all a mass of the most disgusting stuff. But some environments have more problems that others.

If I may, can I suggest you take a closer look at the fans you have now? In particular, use one of the tools which monitor fan speed against component temperature. I use Speedfan, which is a bit tricky to set up, but I'll be happy to explain how its all done. There may be others. But it's the case fans you really need to deal with.

The point is, if the fans are running too fast, they won't actually be working better. They are simply circulating hot air. But more, they are sucking in that nefarious dust. Make your fans run more efficiently, the computer will be more stable, possibly cooler and certainly cleaner.
 

southofborder

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Surfinjo said:
I have a feeling it won't have a huge effect. What little good it does will simply being transferring the problems form the computer to the filter.

As others have said, regular cleaning. Moreover, you may just need to accept that your environment is particularly dusty. Not that it's dirty, we are all a mass of the most disgusting stuff. But some environments have more problems that others.

If I may, can I suggest you take a closer look at the fans you have now? In particular, use one of the tools which monitor fan speed against component temperature. I use Speedfan, which is a bit tricky to set up, but I'll be happy to explain how its all done. There may be others. But it's the case fans you really need to deal with.

The point is, if the fans are running too fast, they won't actually be working better. They are simply circulating hot air. But more, they are sucking in that nefarious dust. Make your fans run more efficiently, the computer will be more stable, possibly cooler and certainly cleaner.
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I'm a bit intrigued of what you say. Are you talking about controlling speed of the fan? like making it silent when it's so noisy? SpeedFan is a software, isn't it? So it supposed like volume adjustment in air cleaners like Clair?
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
southofborder said:
I'm a bit intrigued of what you say. Are you talking about controlling speed of the fan? like making it silent when it's so noisy? SpeedFan is a software, isn't it? So it supposed like volume adjustment in air cleaners like Clair?
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Exactly.

The purpose of the fans is to keep the temp down. Once that's been done, any more fan power (so to speak) is just wasted. With most computer cases, it causes turbulence, noise and dirt.

The nice thing about Speedfan is you set it up yourself. You can adjust individual fans, for the best effect and turn the program off altogether of you want to.

Currently, I have my CPU fan reduced to a certain extent, so its temp is stable and that fan speed increases as load on the CPU does.

My case fans are a different matter. Once I got my CPU fan under control, the onlt thing left to worry about was the internal case environment. I have disconnected the front fan altogether. It was noisy, in spite of being recently replace, and did very little. My back and side fans both run at about 15% to 20%, unless the case get warm, when they speed up befre returning to their usual speed.

One limitation. I use a NVIDIA graphics card. Though its temp is logged by SpeedFan, it fans are independent and must be managed by NVIDIA software. No big deal for me personally.

If you want to take a look at it, download it from MajorGeeks. http://www.majorgeeks.com/content/p...f=FORID:10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=speedfan&sa=Search

It can he found elsewhere, but the advantage of a site like MajorGeeks is they guard their reputation and carefully check each file for any corruptions.

Run it and have a look. Unless you put a tick in a rather obvious box on the front panel, it won't actually affect anyhting. It uses almost no resources and I have mine loaded at startup.

I don't know how much you know, but if you need any help figuring out how to use it please say and I will be happy to explain it all.

The first problem you will see is none of the labels seem to corelate to the actual fans. The labels in Speedfan are generic and correct. You need to work out which control is for each fan. Also, there are far more controls available than you will very need.

I currently control 3 of my fans. SpeedFan can manage, potentially about 30!
 

southofborder

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Surfinjo said:
Exactly.

The purpose of the fans is to keep the temp down. Once that's been done, any more fan power (so to speak) is just wasted. With most computer cases, it causes turbulence, noise and dirt.

The nice thing about Speedfan is you set it up yourself. You can adjust individual fans, for the best effect and turn the program off altogether of you want to.

Currently, I have my CPU fan reduced to a certain extent, so its temp is stable and that fan speed increases as load on the CPU does.

My case fans are a different matter. Once I got my CPU fan under control, the onlt thing left to worry about was the internal case environment. I have disconnected the front fan altogether. It was noisy, in spite of being recently replace, and did very little. My back and side fans both run at about 15% to 20%, unless the case get warm, when they speed up befre returning to their usual speed.

One limitation. I use a NVIDIA graphics card. Though its temp is logged by SpeedFan, it fans are independent and must be managed by NVIDIA software. No big deal for me personally.

If you want to take a look at it, download it from MajorGeeks. http://www.majorgeeks.com/content/p...f=FORID:10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=speedfan&sa=Search

It can he found elsewhere, but the advantage of a site like MajorGeeks is they guard their reputation and carefully check each file for any corruptions.

Run it and have a look. Unless you put a tick in a rather obvious box on the front panel, it won't actually affect anyhting. It uses almost no resources and I have mine loaded at startup.

I don't know how much you know, but if you need any help figuring out how to use it please say and I will be happy to explain it all.

The first problem you will see is none of the labels seem to corelate to the actual fans. The labels in Speedfan are generic and correct. You need to work out which control is for each fan. Also, there are far more controls available than you will very need.

I currently control 3 of my fans. SpeedFan can manage, potentially about 30!
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Sorry to disappoint you but I give up:(

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JackBassV said:
Why not buy some filters for your fans?

I've fitted a couple to my system (had to hack the setup, because of the case design.) Now I just have to wash the filters about once a month. Virtually no dust in the case. Cost, about £2 per filter. Now about £3-£4.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1428&subid=2363
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I already ordered 2 and waiting for arrival. If I keep protect inside with these air filters and outside with Clair so nothing should be worried more. Thank you :D
 
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