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Old 01-02-2014, 04:09 PM   #1
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Vacuum or Compressed Air to clean desktop

What do you guys use to clean the inside of your desktop, vacuum or compressed air?

Let me know your take on it.
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Old 01-02-2014, 04:55 PM   #2
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Vacuum as the first pass, mainly to suck up the big loose dust. I used to use compressed air afterwards, but now I just a de-commissioned photography blower instead. Works 100% as well as compressed air, except that you don't have to keep shelling out $5/can every time.
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You'll find you need both. Vacuum first pass. Then with the vaccum on in the general area, spray the rest out of the hard to reach areas. Be careful about applying the vacuum directly to the components. You never know when you might lose something.
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throw some peanut butter on the inside of it and let your dog go at it

But uh, yeah compressed air/vacuum -- only problem with vacuum is that it might give off some ESD and damage something (rare, but possible).

Do yourself a favor and get some pantyhose and stretch it tight across the intake fans, blocks a lot of dust and a nice place to hide your panthose.
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vacuum outside of chassis maybe once a month
air compressor with water filter every 6 months
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The insides of your computer should never be vacuumed.

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vacuum + air compressor. does the job everytime
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Vacuum most of the time does the job for me. My setup is really clean since I don't even have side panels put on since I figured I can vacuum the computer case while vacuuming my place every week.
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You guys shouldn't vacuum your computer at all because it creates a lot of static electricity and that might have a chance to fry one of the components inside. Air compressor is the way to go.
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vacuum is fine if your extensions and accessories are plastic. I do it all the time on my computer and still runs fine. hell i even build my computers on carpet
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^This. Been doing it for 15+ years. Never a short.

Nowadays I don't touch the extension to anything in the case because I have well-filtered intake fans. I just hover the wand and spray away with compressed air.
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