"Might need a bit of a clean..."

[DCBassman]

My younger son, who builds high-end gaming computers, bequeathed me the remains of his just retired rig. It has a water cooler for the CPU. A bit dusty, he said...

 

[Drago]

Cleaner than my Y fronts.

 

[sleuthey]

Looks like someone has been decanting allot of white powder substance in the same room as the PC.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Hot wash with Ariel automatic....

 

[stephec]

Cleaner than my Y fronts.

Definitely an instance where pictures aren't required.

 

[Edwardoka]

My younger son, who builds high-end gaming computers, bequeathed me the remains of his just retired rig. It has a water cooler for the CPU. A bit dusty, he said...
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When the heatsink looks like it's covered in wool it might be time to buy a HVAC and lots of compressed air

I mean, I say heatsink, that's merely an assumption. It could be anything under there. Maybe even @Drago's y-fronts!

 

[DCBassman]

If that were the case, it's all in the Hoover bag now!

 

[DCBassman]

When the heatsink looks like it's covered in wool it might be time to buy a HVAC and lots of compressed air

I mean, I say heatsink, that's merely an assumption. It could be anything under there. Maybe even @Drago's y-fronts!

A radiator matrix! But you'd never have guessed before cleaning.

 

[DCBassman]

Here's the rig that replaced all the gubbins I got, which included a fancy touch-screen fan controller and a Geforce GTX Titan X.

The motherboard, CPU and RAM you can see in that will be coming my way also next year. Core i7 3820 and 32GB of 1866 MHz DDR3 memory. Until then, the cooler, now cleaned, and the Corsair Obsidian 750D case it came in, will have to await a suitable power unit: the Titan X assumes a 650W system supply, of which it can consume 250W. Eek. He's running that rig on a 1000W unit.

 

[keithmac]

I was chatting to a customer before Christmas and he's got an all singing and dancing rig, said it was a fan-less design and silent (has it in living room next to TV).

 

[biggs682]

There's a lot of gobblee gawk chat here

 

[si_c]

Someone clearly doesn't clean their room particularly often!

Should be using filters on the fans to prevent that dust ingress.

 

[DCBassman]

Someone clearly doesn't clean their room particularly often!

Should be using filters on the fans to prevent that dust ingress.

Indeed, but the cat apparently chewed up the magnetic mesh that sits on top...I will definitely be replacing that!

 

[DCBassman]

I was chatting to a customer before Christmas and he's got an all singing and dancing rig, said it was a fan-less design and silent (has it in living room next to TV).

Despite all those fancy fans, that system is inaudible when not stressed.

 

[Globalti]

We got GtiJunior's room dry-lined and insulated so when he was playing his of a similar spec the room was nice and warm! That consumed 400-500 watts.