Cleaning casing fans

[shadow84]

havent heard of such an adapter. havent really travel much to begin with. will go amazon search for it. thanks

Amazon.com: eForCity COTHPLUGUN01 Insten Universal World Wide Travel Charger Adapter Plug, White: Electronics

you mean this type?

or this
Amazon.com: Conair Travel Smart All-In-One Adapter and Converter Combo Unit: Health & Personal Care

I believe DIY shops in SG do sell them.

 

[devilwahaha]

what is SFF? i using ATX case. paiseh. i using cm elite 335.

the front fan is blocked by the hdd as well as GPU. not easy to take out and install i would think

I've serviced similar cases like this before. The front panel most likely can take out one, if not its pretty impossible to even install the fan haha.

On "cheaper" cases like this, its usually held in place by screws while "higher end" cases have snap on clips.

If you're around east/Tampines, I can help you clean your entire rig for a meal and also teach you how to maintain it yourself in the future

Also, although its quite popular amongst some of our hardware guys here to use air blowers to "remove dust", I personally dont recommend it because a lot of that dust will still linger in your case and onto other parts after blowing, which makes it even worse IMO, and then some of them actually do blowing and then vacuuming, which vacuuming is said to introduce static which might either kill your components or leave them half-dead if it comes into contact. There's one camp that says vacuuming is safe and has been doing it for years while there's another camp that says its bad and all and stay away from it.

Personally I'm the latter camp so what I usually do is
1)Take out all the heatsinks(CPU/GPU) and give them a shower and dry them
2)Use paintbrush to dust away anything thats on motherboard/GPU PCB
3)If case has thick pads of "dust", clean entire case with wet tissue, if is just hairy dust sweep with paintbrush and then just run over everything with wet tissue to finish off
4)Assemble things back

 

[Phuturist]

Use wet tissue can? How about wet wipes?
Worried about tissue bits stuck inside...

 

[bladez87]

I've serviced similar cases like this before. The front panel most likely can take out one, if not its pretty impossible to even install the fan haha.

On "cheaper" cases like this, its usually held in place by screws while "higher end" cases have snap on clips.

If you're around east/Tampines, I can help you clean your entire rig for a meal and also teach you how to maintain it yourself in the future

Also, although its quite popular amongst some of our hardware guys here to use air blowers to "remove dust", I personally dont recommend it because a lot of that dust will still linger in your case and onto other parts after blowing, which makes it even worse IMO, and then some of them actually do blowing and then vacuuming, which vacuuming is said to introduce static which might either kill your components or leave them half-dead if it comes into contact. There's one camp that says vacuuming is safe and has been doing it for years while there's another camp that says its bad and all and stay away from it.

Personally I'm the latter camp so what I usually do is
1)Take out all the heatsinks(CPU/GPU) and give them a shower and dry them
2)Use paintbrush to dust away anything thats on motherboard/GPU PCB
3)If case has thick pads of "dust", clean entire case with wet tissue, if is just hairy dust sweep with paintbrush and then just run over everything with wet tissue to finish off
4)Assemble things back

OMG! i just went to vacuum my comp...haha

i stay at CCK...T_T sad. I wanted to pull out my gpu, but it was stuck and i could not find the screw that might be used to secure it to the back plate.

even after i pressed on the catching lever for the gpu, it still refuses to come out. afraid i might break it so i just left it.

after my horrible attempt at cleaning the fan, i was able to play some games without my gpu shutting down on me. haha

 

[devilwahaha]

Use wet tissue can? How about wet wipes?
Worried about tissue bits stuck inside...

Haha sorry I should have been more specific. I usually use either baby wipes (can get a big bottle from Giant for less than $10 IIRC, mine was bought early last year now still havent finish) or damp tissue paper or paper towel to save money, whichever I can get my hands on easier

Although sometimes I prefer to use the baby wipes on places like PCB where there's through-hole components and a lot of sharp spikes cos baby wipes is "stronger" than tissue paper.

I do make sure to remove all the stuck tissue bits, either by hand picking or brushing with paintbrush. On its own it probably cant do any damage, but when its wet and you plug it in might get magic smoke so I always play safe and clean off with dry tissue after the wet cleaning and let it dry off first before attempting to boot.

OMG! i just went to vacuum my comp...haha

i stay at CCK...T_T sad. I wanted to pull out my gpu, but it was stuck and i could not find the screw that might be used to secure it to the back plate.

even after i pressed on the catching lever for the gpu, it still refuses to come out. afraid i might break it so i just left it.

after my horrible attempt at cleaning the fan, i was able to play some games without my gpu shutting down on me. haha

I might be going bukit batok hometeamNS there to pak bowling in a few weeks time during my holiday so maybe can

Good idea to let it be if you're not sure how to yank it out the right way. My friend actually managed to yank out his pci-e slot along with the card LOL

 

[PC]

Dust build up pretty quick. that's why i make it a point to have filters for my casing/intake fans. taking out and cleaning filters much easier. even if no slots for filters, can DIY your own. with no filters, there's 1 place impossible to clean and sure choked: inside PSU

 

[bladez87]

Haha sorry I should have been more specific. I usually use either baby wipes (can get a big bottle from Giant for less than $10 IIRC, mine was bought early last year now still havent finish) or damp tissue paper or paper towel to save money, whichever I can get my hands on easier

Although sometimes I prefer to use the baby wipes on places like PCB where there's through-hole components and a lot of sharp spikes cos baby wipes is "stronger" than tissue paper.

I do make sure to remove all the stuck tissue bits, either by hand picking or brushing with paintbrush. On its own it probably cant do any damage, but when its wet and you plug it in might get magic smoke so I always play safe and clean off with dry tissue after the wet cleaning and let it dry off first before attempting to boot.


I might be going bukit batok hometeamNS there to pak bowling in a few weeks time during my holiday so maybe can

Good idea to let it be if you're not sure how to yank it out the right way. My friend actually managed to yank out his pci-e slot along with the card LOL

got a feeling i might be the second 1 to say that if i continued. haha

 

[bladez87]

Dust build up pretty quick. that's why i make it a point to have filters for my casing/intake fans. taking out and cleaning filters much easier. even if no slots for filters, can DIY your own.

what filters are you using and where can i get them? thx

 

[PC]

what filters are you using and where can i get them? thx

SLS a lot. i'm using silverstone 140mm. for those with no filter slot, got to see where can put or just fix it together with your intake fan.

 

[Kukuza]

What's the ideal time to clean ? Half year ? One year ?

 

[Maeda_Toshiie]

Call me crazy, but I use water, rag and the sun to clean chassis. However, the system is usually down for a full day during the weekend for this.

 

[jtjt00]

No hard rule on how often you need to clean the internal and the fans. If you used DEMCiflex filters for intake fans, once a year still not too bad, provided you clean the DEMCiflex filter monthly.

If there is no filters at all, 3 to 6 month is the morn.

What's the ideal time to clean ? Half year ? One year ?

 

[Phen8210]

i manually disband all my parts and use a brush so i can reach in and clean it thoroughly.

 

[bladez87]

No hard rule on how often you need to clean the internal and the fans. If you used DEMCiflex filters for intake fans, once a year still not too bad, provided you clean the DEMCiflex filter monthly.

If there is no filters at all, 3 to 6 month is the morn.

4 years! wahaha. and my room is super dusty type