I have a custom built PC, It has like 3 Big case fans, and the psu fan faces down. I’m just wondering, Do y’all recommend PC Fan Filters or just air dust my PCs yearly?
I have fan filters on only my front intake fans, they came as part of the front facia. Otherwise I didn’t add any others.
I have one 120mm fan on the side and another 120mm fan at the rear they blow air out, so don’t suffer so much. But they still need a clean now and then. Having said that they are both variable speed fans and the side one very much out of sight had died. So need a new one.
Heat, the greatest killer of all electronic equipment.
Even my laptop gets some help with keeping it cool.
http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1498829100764-39843.png
When it comes to cooling a system, not the amount/size of the fans the most important thing, but the correct airflow.
Normally front fans blow in and fans at the back/top/side blow out.
This is done so the user isn’t sitting in a “draft”.
Interesting since responding to this topic, I regularly clean the front filters as they are accessible easily from the front, without having to strip much down.
As I mentioned one of my fans had died but because the blue leds still worked I wasn’t aware of it wasn’t working. After I shutdown the PC I stripped the side of the tower and found a few dust bunnies hiding around. With a bit of a blast with a can of air duster and a clean of other areas all is spic and span.
The strange thing is prior to this I hadn’t noticed any adverse temeratures for CPU or drives.
Nice pic Bob. I use a no. 2 pencil to lift the base of a laptop off the surface at the corner where the cpu fan resides.
Works for me.
That helps with the airflow. The fan I use both lifts and extracts the heat. Just a bit more effective than just raising the laptop.
My win10 laptop tends to be very cool with an Intel Kaby Lake i5-7200u dual core processor that is pretty cool with a TDP of 15W. https://ark.intel.com/products/95443/Intel-Core-i5-7200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz
So it isn’t throwing out a lot of heat and an 256GB SSD as my primary drive, so not much heat generated there either and a 1TB HDD secondary drive.
It stays pretty cool and barely noticeable when it is sitting on your lap.