Can dust in a PC effect upgrading?

[CDdude55]

If you have some dust in different places in your computer will that mess up trying to upgrade your computer?

 

[hat]

No. If you have dust, it is reccomended to get rid of it never-the-less.

 

[DRDNA]

Unplug your PC and then hold the power button in for 30seconds then take the side off and use caned air and get that baby cleaned upgrade or not..pay attention to your CPU and GPU the most.

 

[MrPr3f3ct]

Unplug your PC and then hold the power button in for 30seconds then take the side off and use caned air and get that baby cleaned upgrade or not..pay attention to your CPU and GPU the most.

Why hold the power button in for 30 seconds? What does this do, exactly?

 

[MrW]

Drains capacitors?

 

[MrPr3f3ct]

Drains capacitors?

I suppose that makes sense. But isn't the power switch connected to a soft-switch in the motherboard? If there is no power to the board, does the soft-switch still work?

 

[CDdude55]

thanks guys!

 

[panchoman]

hitting the power switch drains all the capacitos in your system so that you dont shock yourself or hurt your system when working on it.

 

[3991vhtes]

I've never held in the power switch. (I just flip the switch on my PSU to off) and I've never had any problems. I've switched RAM, CPU, and video card w/ out even bothering to hold in the power button...

BTW, all you need to do is hold it in for 8 seconds, not 30 if you want to drain it.

 

[panchoman]

i never did the psu, just a quick brush down of the system like every 2 weeks, take about 30 mins.

 

[DrunkenMafia]

that is a very strange question cd dude.....

Did you mean so say, does dust affect the performance of your pc. If so then yes it can, and it will if you allow it to build up on heatsinks and fans. It will make fans work harder, causing them to be noisy.

The worst place for dust in a pc is under the fan on the cpu heatsink.... clean all that off regularly and it will make a huge difference....

 

[CDdude55]

that is a very strange question cd dude.....

Did you mean so say, does dust affect the performance of your pc. If so then yes it can, and it will if you allow it to build up on heatsinks and fans. It will make fans work harder, causing them to be noisy.

The worst place for dust in a pc is under the fan on the cpu heatsink.... clean all that off regularly and it will make a huge difference....

Thanks, I meant can it effect upgrading you CPU or Video card?

 

[keakar]

If you have some dust in different places in your computer will that mess up trying to upgrade your computer?

Thanks, I meant can it effect upgrading you CPU or Video card?

there is no way anyone can understand what your question is the way you asked it.

please ask in a way we can understand the question. in what way are you suggesting it effects anything?

what EXACLY is the question? just ask whats on your mind we are here to help and there are no dumb questions.

 

[Flamingsupernova]

yeah, you should have asked directly hehe, nice question though

 

[CDdude55]

Can you not be able to upgrade if there is alot of dust? There you go,lol

 

[CDdude55]

So?

 

[Casheti]

I just click my power button 3 or 4 times until lights go out etc... then turn off the PSU. I never hold it..

 

[Chewy]

it could.. get lots of dust in between the contacts I'd imagine is not good and could effect the cards performance just get rid of the dust.. its not that hard.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

it could.. get lots of dust in between the contacts I'd imagine is not good and could effect the cards performance just get rid of the dust.. its not that hard.

endrsed .. dirty contacts = bad

 

[keakar]

Can you not be able to upgrade if there is alot of dust? There you go,lol

no, dust has no impact on upgrades at all because the part you are replacing is filling the space so no dust can get in there at all.

but....

dust can and often does get into open previously unused connections so if you are adding extra stuff you many run into dusty connections that you need to take extra care to clean the dust out of them first but this is rare to be bad enough to cause a problem. a good cleaning should be done any time your working inside your computer.

i usually tell people if they are adding stuff and contacts needed cleaning then plug and unplug the card about 3 or 4 times and this will make a good solid electrical connection because it will wipe away any oxidation or dust on the socket pin connectors.

NOTE: never ever stick anything in a slot to try to clean it, you can bend or even break the contacts off, just vaccum out any dust and plug in the card 3 or 4 times to clean the contacts.


i hope that clears it up for you.

 

[JacKz5o]

I've never held in the power switch. (I just flip the switch on my PSU to off) and I've never had any problems. I've switched RAM, CPU, and video card w/ out even bothering to hold in the power button...

BTW, all you need to do is hold it in for 8 seconds, not 30 if you want to drain it.

Same, but I usually wait until the orange LEDs on my motherboard goes out before I start working on anything.