Dust, the ultimate overclocking tool

ShiBDiB · Aug 26, 2008

.... so ya i cleaned out my rig, was a bit dusty so got in there and its lookin all nice now.. try to boot up and get bsod's.. drop the 24/7 stable clock 3.7ghz down to 3.6 and it boots no problem... what the f :banghead:

knightlag · Aug 27, 2008

Reseat your HS/F, seems like you may have knocked it a bit.

ShiBDiB · Aug 27, 2008

my temps r still about the same tho?

Fastmix · Aug 27, 2008

Get some dirt and put it back. :roll:

JC316 · Aug 27, 2008

Never heard of that one before.... Didn't break a capacitor off did you? I can't think of anything other than heat. Or the odd chance that the dust was creating a pencil mod like effect.

Asylum · Aug 27, 2008

Check all your wires and make sure you didnt pull 1 loose.

PVTCaboose1337 · Aug 27, 2008

I have learned dust is semi-conductive (sadly) from experience. Don't let JC fool you, it could be a strange phenomenon. I have had dust make my capacitor explode... I did a controlled test on my breadboard... it was scary.

Mussels · Aug 27, 2008

without knowing your dusting procedure, we're just guessing.

One common thing i see is people take the ram out to dust it, and then put them back in a different order. The order of ram sticks can easily affect OCability and stability.

JC316 · Aug 27, 2008

PVTCaboose1337 said:
I have learned dust is semi-conductive (sadly) from experience. Don't let JC fool you, it could be a strange phenomenon. I have had dust make my capacitor explode... I did a controlled test on my breadboard... it was scary.

It would be strange, but possible. I agree that dust is semi conductive, it just MIGHT be possible that it was affecting something.

ShiBDiB · Aug 27, 2008

Mussels said:
without knowing your dusting procedure, we're just guessing.

One common thing i see is people take the ram out to dust it, and then put them back in a different order. The order of ram sticks can easily affect OCability and stability.

nothing came out, just a little compressed air and wiping stuff like the gfx card down. It wasnt a major cleaning, just opened up the case cause i was gonna swap my dvd drive for a dvd burner, but lazyness got the best of me so it turned into a quick cleaning

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