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What do you guys use to control it? My case has no built in filters.
seems like every two weeks...I'm in there cleaning it!
seems like every two weeks...I'm in there cleaning it!
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NiTrO bOiE said:Some guys even use stockings as filters. I don't use any, I enjoy using my leaf blower to blow all the dust out. lol
cV said:Stockings... But won't the fabric fibers get all over the place on the inside anyway?
Pelle76 said:I heard lots a guys use stockings... But not in the computer though... Har har har....
larva said:That depends entirely on how good a job you do in implementing a filter. Actual filter material, like the stuff above from a home AC filter, poses next to no resistance. Pick up a home AC filter, put it to your mouth, and blow and you will find next to no resistance. Even the 3 layers I have in the front of my case do not restrict airflow to any substantial degree.
If you use whatever looks like filter material and confine the area of your filter to the hole in front of the fan, you will have a restiction. A large filter like the one pictured does not suffer from this problem.
You do have to clean the filters, but not often. The dirt above is about 6 months worth. And you don't have to clean the interior of the machine at all, that is if you have built an effective filter... which is not possible with many cases as they pepper them with extraneous holes to bandaid a lack of a sufficient and engineered airlow path. But the real benefit is that the fans last forever, and their noise floor remains low as the bearings are not ingesting dirt.
The adoption of 92 or 120mm fans is the only thing to be improved, but the four 80mm jobs do pretty darn well. Strangely enough you can have the best computer case without windows, aluminum (although there are versions of this case with both), lights, a fishtank, a rheobus, and a partridge or a pear tree... Whoulda thunk?