Rig cleaning!

As I was on a lazy day, laid back and enjoying the tunes… I realized something.

 

Oh no, my CPU is 46ºC!

So my first suspect was the dust. I actually shut down my computer down and took the vacuum cleaner out. Cleaning produce is on! It was rather spontaneous though.

The tools of the day!

Firstly I took out my graphic card to take out CPU cooler fan.

My dear Sapphire Ultimate HD 3870 256-bit 512MB GDDR4 by my uncle.

Dust on the stock AMD cooler fan. Oh…

Took out the fan and cleaned my CPU cooler. The surprise of the heat problem is within the cooler itself.

Owh. Ultra thick layer of dusts.

After cleaning. Dang there’s a lot of dusts in between.

Took out all the PCI brackets and cleaned too.

Small little holes that clogs up dusts. What a good filter!

Took out all my Cooler Master 90CFM fans as they had the most dust on.

Look at the dust. Not clear enough?

Clear? Thanks to my camera’s macro mode XD

I just took then to the basin and cleaned them. Wash them out!

Planned to use wet tissues at first, but then I just thought I will use the whole box without getting anything cleaned.

After washing them I just went out to my kitchen and wiped them dry.

Yeah, I sat there for like half an hour trying to wipe those fan dry.

Wet fans anyone?

Cleaned!

So when I got back to my rig, I opened the right side panel. And it looked seemingly clean and my eyes tricked me. Dust was hiding at the most unsuspected places.

How did it got there?!

Oh the dust…

Out of the blues I cleaned my Vizo fans as well. Just when I washed it…

O_O

The fan fins.

Luckily I assembled everything back and it was running as fine as ever.

Clean as new!

Then I cleaned finished and assembled everything back into the my HAF 932.

All done!

Bonus picture =D

Then I started up my rig and luckily everything runs fine as ever.

Working as brand new.

Cooling as always.

As strong as before.

Somehow after all these cleaning work, the temperate went down 2ºC and my rig is now much more silent compared to before. And yeah, I still love my rig as always =D

Overall temperature after cleaning.