AMD Temperature Ceiling

[Flatty]

Or you try to keep your house clean, so that your PC does not have to substitute as a hoover.

That's the problem when you have pets and a maid. The maid just dusts everything and the PC sucks up all the dust in the air.

[GeroW4lll]

haha, I just hook up the air gun and compressor, clean in record time! new paste .. hmm nah, unless I'm upgrading.

I once blew the blades clean off a CPU fan trying to clean it. Of course the PC was unusually dirty, but just know that is possible. The PC belonged to an agoraphobic chain-smoking cat lover. The tobacco smoke made the insides sticky and the
cat hair stuck on all surfaces. Looked like a fungus was growing in there.

[Insanityflea]

I once blew the blades clean off a CPU fan trying to clean it. Of course the PC was unusually dirty, but just know that is possible. The PC belonged to an agoraphobic chain-smoking cat lover. The tobacco smoke made the insides sticky and the
cat hair stuck on all surfaces. Looked like a fungus was growing in there.

ewww, reminds me back when I was a techie during high school & college, I worked part time in a PC shop, man the things that got dragged in there! Plenty with dead roaches, I once had a dead snake stuck in the cpu fan, & dead mouse oh and the best, was a bird!! yip a small little brown bird. Sometimes it's better not to ask The worst part is being the 'junior' i had to clean those things up, and we didn't have a compressor, we have small brushes. Still had a blast there, pity the shop closed down a few years back, I used to pop in and still say Hi! (I think I still got some pics somewhere!)

[GeroW4lll]

I used to carry them out to the nearby fuel station and borrow air from their tyre compressor. I figured nothing in the dirty air can be worse than what's in the PCs already

[Flatty]

I used to carry them out to the nearby fuel station and borrow air from their tyre compressor. I figured nothing in the dirty air can be worse than what's in the PCs already

Yip, nearest workshop works for me.

I have a toothbrush in my kit for cleaning out PC's when I don't have air. Client phones me and says her husband's PC is doing strange things. When I opened it, it was caked with the type of furry dust you don't just blow off. I stripped it, cleaned every component and voila - wekking hundreds.

I actually had a project management company with the presence of mind to contract me to clean their computers on a regular basis, once. It's such a shame that people don't think that way, because a lot of people keep their computers for years and years, and never have them cleaned. It's no wonder they're always replacing components, and as far I can tell the guy who serviced all the computers I am looking after now didn't even think to recommend a good cleaning to his clients - probably only interested in the clean aspect of the job, and not too keen on getting all dirty doing his job?

[Insanityflea]

Well, I suppose on the other hand, you don't want companies to clean their pc's as blown equipment means sales for you

[Flatty]

Well, I suppose on the other hand, you don't want companies to clean their pc's as blown equipment means sales for you

Not really - you don't make much on hardware sales unless you're moving reasonable volumes - cleaning a PC is a lot more interesting than saving all their data and reloading frikkin windows and all their applications. At least I can have a smoke while I clean their PC.

I just believe in advising my clients properly so they can get the maximum use from their gear, and not have to keep forking out for hardware. Saving them money makes them talk to their mates at the bar, or the golf club, or whatever, and that's how I have always gotten referals.

I'm not saying I don't make money on hardware, but my money comes from labour, which is just fine for me.

[Arby]

I work predominantly in fresh produce markets, the constantly moving diesel forklifts combined with trucks offloading and dust on the market make a thick sticky black gunk that swallows things. I have sometimes looked inside a pc, then closed it right back up and said it needs to be replaced.
As an aside you should wash *everything* that is fruit or veg related, its a disgustingly dirty environment.

[Flatty]

I work predominantly in fresh produce markets, the constantly moving diesel forklifts combined with trucks offloading and dust on the market make a thick sticky black gunk that swallows things. I have sometimes looked inside a pc, then closed it right back up and said it needs to be replaced.
As an aside you should wash *everything* that is fruit or veg related, its a disgustingly dirty environment.

I wash EVERYTHING I cook. After having worked in a restaurant and seeing what goes on there, AND I just know that some bugger stuck his finger up his nose to change gears before packaging my chicken, so I'd rather err on the side of precaution than not.

It doesn't matter how clean the production environment is, the cleaner it is the more likely it is that PC's in that environment have detritus bunged up in them.

[GeroW4lll]

I am yet to see a clean environment though. "Company named after a male sheep" where Rainy and me worked for a while was across from a coffee plant and all the PCs had Frisco in them. One day I parked my car on the wrong side of the building and I had to wash the coffee off the windows before I could drive home. For a while I installed POS systems in restaurants and PCs in those kitchens are filthy inside. They suck in (I think) cooking oil or some fatty residue, and smoke that gets covered in dust and then a new layer of oil. Incidentally I stopped eating at Spur and Ocean-basket during this time. At the moment I support PCs in automotive workshops that also have quite a hard time.