Pyroman Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Hehe one of the staff has brought their PC in for me to take a look at 'cos it's running a bit slow, it's got 192Mb RAM so i thought i'd kindly stick a spare 512 stick in it and found this lot: http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8456/dusty1ry7.jpg http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7028/dusty2hu0.jpg http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/113/dusty3ww3.jpg http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7794/dusty4au9.jpg Penny is there for scale =D It still had the quality control sticker, untouched, over the side case opening i broke it to get in!
Pyroman Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 Yuck!!!!! Just blew inside it to get the dust off the heatsink and i think someone's been spraying purfume near it i can taste it, blinkin horrible!!!
localzuk Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Can't see it. I assume it's posted on one of the free image hosting sites?
srochford Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 I bet if you open up most "domestic" PCs you'll find they look like that - they're often put on the floor in bedrooms and they do a good job of keeping the dust down by just sucking it into the machine :-) Really, it's a tribute to the quality of the thermal design of the machine that it just keeps working anyway!
Pyroman Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 Can't see it. I assume it's posted on one of the free image hosting sites? darn! how does everyone else host their images when posting on here?
m1ddy Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 when im smoking a fag all the smoke gets sucked in through the panel in the side of my antec 900, blown through the thermaltake 120 extreme and then out the back
localzuk Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 darn! how does everyone else host their images when posting on here? I attach them on the site - you can add attachments to posts.
Sirbendy Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 I see some like this on occasion...makes me cringe.. I saw one with a HS that was utterly choked and a cooked fan...the woman used "shake 'n' vac" a lot...bloody menace. That and "bedroom" PCs full of talc.. My rig is kept spotless...
Pyroman Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 Sorry, for those that couldn't see, didn't realise you could attach pictures Hehe one of the staff has brought their PC in for me to take a look at 'cos it's running a bit slow, it's got 192Mb RAM so i thought i'd kindly stick a spare 512 stick in it and found this lot. Penny is there for scale =D It still had the quality control sticker, untouched, over the side case opening i broke it to get in! **don't know if you want to delete the other post mods**
MK-2 Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 we had one once where the dust had caked about 1/4" into the heatsink between the fins. it came out solid.
Pyroman Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 posted them again as attachments in another thread because u can't add attachments after you've posted it
SYNACK Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 I've seen worse, 6 years worth of constant running in a factory. In one case I could not even see the RAM as it was buried in dust.
Pyroman Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 lol yeah one of our old servers was that bad you couldn't see the mainboard anymore, but for a home user i was quite impressed
ChrisN-0123 Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 LOL and to think about 90% of that is human skin
maniac Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 I saw a workstation at my last school where the dust had formed a 'drift' against the ram because of the flow of air in the case. My home PC gets bad inside, on the floor of my bedroom probably the worst place for it, and it has a ton of fans so moves a fair amount of air through it! They should recycle used PCs as air filters, as they seem to trap everything inside them. Mike.
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