Dust

[jeff_harrison_344]

I was just wondering how much a litlle bit of dust on a fan or component can affect it?

 

[William_HSF]

My Alpha PAL6035 with a YS Tech 60mm fan was making a lot of noise and creating some equally noisy vibrations in my Lian Li case a few weeks back. I took a look at the fan and it had a good amount of dust that had accumulated on the blades. This caused the fan blades to become unbalanced causing the vibrations and that extra noise. I added a wire mesh filter to the front of the case that quickly stopped that from happening again.

 

[stool]

It can gum up your CD, cause instability problems, add unwanted heat to your system, etc. It's always a good idea to periodically pop your case open and duff up your components, and where you can, add fan filters to try to keep dust to a minimum.

 

[PastaBoyNY]

Better than Wire Mesh Filters to me is the Foam Filters used on Home AC Units. I did this on two Ducts that were cut into mine and my wifes PC's. Works wonders! She smokes and i kept having to clean out her PC all the time......i smoke Cigars every now and again so i used to clean mine too. I have had the filters in for Two months now and both cases are MUCH cleaner than they used to be. Nice Cheap Solution....my favorites!

Sal

 

[KeyboardCowboy]

i found that the best way to control the amount of dust inside your case it to put home furnace filters over the inlets into your case, also i usually give my case a good vacuming about every week or so, actually, i am going to do that right now...