So I'm wondering what folks like to do with a dirty system that hasn't been maintained in a while?
A recent chassis purchase on Ebay had the added bonus of an oldish (Haswell) but still working system inside. It was pretty grubby and had a whole family of dust bunnies inside. After blowing it out, there's still a thin dust layer on everything that isn't going to come off short of rubbing it off.
Do you like to leave that sort of dust on, or clean it off? I always like to clean things up, but if the dust is on every exposed surface, I can see the risk of damaging PCB components if I try to get it all off.
Any preferred methods/supplies, especially for things like Motherboard & GPU? I generally use an air compressor, plus Q-tips and rubbing alcohol, followed by fresh TIM. But I'm sure there's other, probably better, ways to go about it.
A recent chassis purchase on Ebay had the added bonus of an oldish (Haswell) but still working system inside. It was pretty grubby and had a whole family of dust bunnies inside. After blowing it out, there's still a thin dust layer on everything that isn't going to come off short of rubbing it off.
Do you like to leave that sort of dust on, or clean it off? I always like to clean things up, but if the dust is on every exposed surface, I can see the risk of damaging PCB components if I try to get it all off.
Any preferred methods/supplies, especially for things like Motherboard & GPU? I generally use an air compressor, plus Q-tips and rubbing alcohol, followed by fresh TIM. But I'm sure there's other, probably better, ways to go about it.