A good measure to take when doing system maintenance is occasionally cleaning your hardware components. Doing so removes dust and debris which can accumulate inside your system and degrade hardware performance.
While there are probably many more things you can do, I am just going to mention the simple and most obvious and ones:
- When cleaning the inside of your computer (motherboard, etc.) make sure your computer is off and you ground yourself before opening the case.
- Use only an air duster/canned air to remove dust from your components. I would recommend doing so outside so it doesn’t end up all over your house.
- Remember to blow out the insides of any intake or exhaust fans.
- When cleaning your monitor, make sure you do so with a clean rag and only use cleaning agents designed for electronics.
- Clean your keyboard.
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When cleaning cooling fans, be sure to isolate impellars to prevent spinning beyond their intended designed RPMs
Do Not try to see how many RPM’s you can get out of your fans, when using canned air, Usa a pencil or somthing to keep the fans from rotating while cleaning.
I think that I always wait too long to clean my system hardware because I usually have tons of dust everywhere. I think next time I will do this outside.