does pulling off the side of the pc help keeping the graphic

>>375934778
Yes, if you have shit airflow.

>>375934778
No, but blue LEDs on your fans help a lot.

>>375934778
Kind of, if you have shitty airflow is worse.

Depends on the case and cooling setup. Shit setups will see a noticeable improvement, well planned setups will have little difference and some rigs will actually suffer from having the airflow disturbed by the open case.

Yeah, it does. That's what I did when my last computer was on its very last legs.

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Only if you tape a box fan to it

>>375934778
Side covers on PC are mainly for protection. You can get lower temperatures if your components lay in the open not assembled, however, risk of damage by accident greatly increases. And you will have to "enjoy" more noise.

>>375934778
If you have shitty airflow then yes.

>>375935372
Haven't cleaned mine in a year, this is what I'm expecting

>>375935146
Jesus Christ, this hits too close to home. I have a PC with broken fans, blue LEDs and the side of the case removed.

>>375935372
A can of dust off would have worked better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9B60dqDAho

THIRD WORLD MONKEYS GET OUT

>>375935372
RIP fan bearings.

>>375935146
> Computer with blue LEDs.
> Fans broke one day.
> Temperatures stayed the same.

I've always used blue LEDs since then.

>>375935372
This was pretty much how cleaning my g'day pc went. She hadn't ever dusted it and she's had it for like 8 years.

Put new thermal paste on it, then I realized dust was stuck under the fan on the CPU cooler. So I dug all the dust out with tweezers. I don't know how you let things get that bad lol

If you have proper airflow, no. May even make it worse.

If you don't, yes. But you're also inviting tons of dust and other potentially hardware damaging objects that way.

>>375935372
>spreading all that nasty dust across the entire room

just fucking vacuum it, compressed air is only for stuck dust

>>375936256
The only reason you would want a vacuum cleaner in your PC is if you hate it. Tons of static.

>>375936256
That room doesn't look like it's suffering a lot from the addition of a slight amount of additional dust

>>375935526
>tfw bought a cheap as fuck blower
Never jewd again with these air cans.

>>375936331
Not to mention that vacuuming is really bad at cleaning the heatsinks and other locations that matter, it only skims off the easy-to-remove surface dust. The best method is blasting it with air and catching the flying gunk with a vacuum.

>>375934778

In 90% of cases no (no pun intended)

If your airflow actually works pulling off the side of the case would cause airflow to cease and would actually help stagnate the air inside of the case, this would obviously make it hotter than if it was closed.

if your temperature is actually hotter outside of the case than inside of the case the hotter air from outside (even though it's "fresh" air) would cause the case to eventually get closer to the ambient temperature outside of the case, also causing heat to go up.

Unless you are running almost no fans, and the temp outside of the case is cooler than inside of the case would this be a small bandaid till you bought new fans.

Yes. It also invites dust, which makes it much worse.

>>375935591
>implying you can't be poor in first world

>>375935623
Depends if you aim directly at the fan and make it spin like crazy. I usually just jam it with something to clean it up.
In that case he might as well dissemble the entire thing and clean it up separately.

>>375936256
I read that vacuuming fucks shit up because it builds up static. And it doesn't really get rid of the fine dust.

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>>375935372

wtf, did they salvage that computer from a volcanic eruption aftermath?

>>375937246
Shut up you dumb ape. I know shitskin posters by the way they speak, not their bank accounts.

>>375934778

No, because you'd be working on neutral air pressure, the net flow must be positive or negative .

>>375937557
No, a smokers home. Close enough but not quite.

>>375937246
>sucking air builds up static
>blowing air does not

And yes, you need an anti-static brush or compressed air to get rid of dust stuck to heatsinks and components. But it's still better than using just compressed air and vacuuming your entire room afterwards.

>>375936883
Air can't stagnate inside an open case. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so unless you attach your computer to the ceiling it's going to fuck off real quick.

>>375936256
He's in a concrete box room, I don't think it matters idiot

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>have the side of the case closed
>CPU is at 70C+
>have the side removed
>CPU goes to 40C

just submerge the whole computer in a tank of mineral oil

>>375935146
>>375935663
But blue LEDs make it slower.

For max performance you obviously want red LEDs and good fans to take care of the extra heat.

>>375938305
clean your intake fans

>>375937985
Hot air rising is a very minor effect.

>>375938347

back on 486s at least they had the safety of a dedicated red LED "turbo" button right on the front. if you still use red LEDs in this day and age you are just a fucking madman.

>>375934778
no. don't ever do this. this just allows dust to enter your case and make everything dusty. if you have at least one fan on the front of the case and one on the back you should be fine for temps because you've got a consistent stream of fresh air going through your case and if you open up the side it'll fuck with that.

>>375938537
That doesn't matter, you're not gonna get a fucking stagnant hot air bubble inside your computer if the case is open. Air movement is not restricted, so move it will. If you don't have strong airflow through your case, then taking off the side panel will make your temps drop, because you remove the barrier for air movement.

>>375937770
>tfw 1 pack/day smoker
>on PC all day everyday
>smoking merely inches across it
I dread the day I open it to clean

>>375938990
Any airflow whatsoever in the case would be doing more than that. Taking off the side cover would only have a proper effect in a PC that's so dirty it's clogged and no air movement takes place otherwise, or a fanless one.

Also, the random air currents in your room will have more of an effect than "hot air rises".
>>375939101
Dust filters. Get them.

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>>375938587
>MFW the turbo button literally makes shit slower

how long do you wait until you dust off the PC?
for me every 3 months

I have 4 pets , live in vegas and water cool my PC but it only gets really dirty when I don't clean my room which I do every two weeks

>>375936491
compressed air in cans a shit

thankfully i have an actual air compressor in my garage

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No.

jokes on you, if you're using anything other than canned air you're subjecting your rig to the possibility of damage due to a number of things.

Foreign objects in the lines or tanks of the air compressor you're using can be expelled and damage components, water vapor can form condensation in lines or tanks of compressors which can lead to water damage on components. Many industrial air compressors or vacuums expel (or intake) air inefficiently and are either too strong, or not strong enough. And finally static discharge from various components can obviously, fry your shit.

Canned air is sterile, clean, and expelled at a reasonable pressure sufficient for cleaning components without the risk of damage.

>>375939351
ahh the cables

>>375939240
Every couple months.

Though I do clean the dust filter more often than that. But that's just taking it off and beating the dust out.

>>375939536
t. canned air salesman

>people actually buy weak air compressors
enjoy doing jackshit but allowing hard dust to accumulate for years to come

doesn't clean the PC properly because it is so weak and doesn't lower the temps because it is so weak

>>375939563
What's wrong with the cables?

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>>375939351

holy fuck

>>375939159
No, that is factually false. If you have low speed fans on airflow and high TDP components, your temps will be lower with the side panel off. Your airflow needs to be good enough to avoid hot-box effect inside the case when it's closed, and that actually takes decent airflow. Not "airflow", decent airflow.

I can actually lower the temps inside my case by taking off the side panel (which I'll never do, because it's like 4 layers of sound dampening). The case fans are so low performance that the temp inside the case is higher than ambient at full loads.

>>375939536
>static discharge
It's a risk yes, but the chance of static damaging anything is very very low. I think you have more of a chance to win the jackpot than static discharge damaging chips or caps on a board.

Those daft looking wristbands are snake oil.

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>>375934778
No it doesn't. You need airflow through the case. Cool air in, hot air out. It's fucking simple physics.

Don't believe faggots saying otherwise.

>>375939536
I got one of those canned air things. All it did was just spray freezing liquid oxygen on the components and ruin the plastic. Canned air is complete bullshit I say.

>>375938306
no this sucks

i mean yeah it keeps shit cool and reasonably clean but its a huge mess if you ever change out components. Plus you have to change out the oil occasionally and that's usually pretty sloppy too

>>375940414
see that text on the side of the can that says "Hold Upright"? Yeah you should do that

>>375939939
0.01% risk is still greater than 0.00% risk

>>375939676
no merely a humble plastic tube manufacturer. We sell our tubes to the companies who make the canned air. best tubes, number one, blow air best good

>>375941053
>0.01% risk is still greater than 0.00% risk
Unless you go out of your way to fuck something up with static, it will never happen in real world usage.

See this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1la0a8RQ7kI
The dude has an autism fit on a carpet to get the static and it still did not fry the parts.

I also have a 0.01% chance to become the next US president. Does not mean it will happen.

>>375941053
>Hold upright
My computer is in an awkward location and I ain't about tear down my battlestation to get to my PC to clean it. Maybe they should have designed the canned air better so that I can be used in any position.

>>375941053
>0.01% risk is still greater than 0.00% risk
nowadays most boards are designed in a way to mitigate static discharge even if it happens. hell, they even test the designs with ESD simulators (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlYi1yLTVQ for example), zapping the boards with up to 50kV discharges, and seeing if they will work after.

so, it's 0.01% risk of static discharge, and 0.00001% that this static discharge will actually damage something unless your PC is from late 80s / early 90s

>>375942253
>>375941543
You guys are liberals, aren't you?

the sky is blue
>ah on the contrary the sky is periwinkle!
and periwinkle is a shade of blue
>oh ho, not quite so! your argument has been foiled by my superior logic! good day to you sir *tips*

>>375943285
>You guys are liberals, aren't you?
What the fuck has politics got to do with static?
I get it you don't like being proven wrong. But tough shit. You are wrong on the static issue. We have shown that using videos.
>Getting so butthurt about it he tries and defame me as a liberal.
AD HOM to the max.