
But you wouldn't want to get the leaf blower out if you're not going to have a show.Īndy Kelly: *sound of Bach's Air Suite No.
#Weclean oc Pc
It looked like I'd detonated a smoke grenade, which suggests that however often I dedust my PC is not often enough. Yes, I did think of Tim "The Toolman" Taylor and his grunting demands for more power as I used a tool the size of my PC to remove dust from my PC. I put my PC on a table in the backyard and blasted the hell out of it. I read somewhere that you could use leaf blower, so a few months ago that's what I did. Tyler Wilde: *sound of leaf blower starting up* It makes everything feel dirty, so I usually end up dusting my PC every other week when I dust every surface in my apartment-keyboard, monitors, microphone, and speakers, too. It also helps that my NZXT H700i case keeps a lot of dust out anyway, so I only dust the inside once a month at the very least. I spent a lot more money building it, and keeping my investment running efficiently as possible is important. But my habits changed after I built my current rig. I used to do it so infrequently that my intake fans had enough dust built up to look like a dryer lint filter after just a few loads. I used to be terrible about dusting my PC. But I feel better having done it than when I used to wait months and months and then open it up to find a horror show of dust inside. I really hate everything about it: I hate crawling under the desk to unplug everything, I hate taking the eight damn screws out of the case, I hate lugging the thing outside and spraying compressed air into it, and I hate bringing it back in, closing up the case, and then plugging in all the cables again. I have a reminder set on my phone to do it every two weeks, and while I do admittedly hit the snooze button on it, I still manage to get it done about once a month.

I have a fluffy dog and a fluffy cat and a penchant for procrastination, but I am trying to be better about de-dusting my PC lately. When I get old and close to death, just leave me near a big PC fan and let me disintegrate.Ĭhris Livingston: Every two weeks (theoretically) I do this every two weeks or so and I'm always amazed at how quickly dust and hair sneaks in. I'll pull out any big clumps with gloves on then drag the thing outside and spray compressed air into it until the wind picks up the cloud of cat stuff and carries it away to an ocean or wherever the wind is always trying to be.

I dust fairly often, but what that actually means is that I'll bend over at the back like I want to hurt and groan as I fling open the chassis door. I'm convinced my cat's only goal is to slowly, particle by particle, disassemble and reassemble herself inside of my computer. (For the record, I switched GPU testbeds for the 5500 XT launch and later, just because things looked off, so GPU reviews were not affected.) I wonder if cleaning it out would help?" 15 minutes later, performance was back to where I expected. Taking a closer look at my Kraken X62 radiator, I thought, "Hmm. I fired up MSI Afterburner to monitor CPU and GPU clockspeeds and temperatures, and while the clocks looked okay, the CPU was breaking into the 90s on thermals. Faster GPUs are more likely to show performance differences caused by the CPU. I checked the RX 5700 XT performance, and it was also lower (not quite as much).

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I tried rolling back to earlier drivers as well.
#Weclean oc driver
I uninstalled all video drivers via Display Driver Uninstaller, then grabbed the latest drivers. I spent too long trying to figure out what was happening.
