I am not a tech person, but I cleaned out my secondhand PC today, and it took hours with the sheer amount of dust accumulation. The fans were nearly overloaded with it!!

Does a clean PC run better / faster than one filled with dust? Or is it more a matter of keeping the fans running easily? Or something else…? Idk, maybe I imagined it, but it seemed to boot much faster after cleaning. Could be wishful thinking!

  • JetpackJackson
    11·
    4 months ago

    This reminds me that I need to clean my PC,I can see cat fur in it

    • Siegfried@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Half a year worth of my lovely fur ball sitting on the top of my desktop was enough to entirely block 1/4 of my CPU heatsink in a highly vemtilated room. I would have thought that it was uniformly distributing everywhere. Nope, it wasn’t.

      Just open it and do a quick pick. And pet that bastard for me.

      • JetpackJackson
        3·
        4 months ago

        Luckily my cats don’t sit on the PC, but I haven’t cleaned it in years and I can see a fine layer of dust and cat fur on the power supply and the drives. I’ll have to clean this weekend. And I’ll pet the cats for you :3