I have a mess beside me. I have piled all my stuff up around my desk and its getting really cluttered. CDs, DvDs, Books, Stereo equipment, wires, game boxes and much, much more.

I have been wanting to tear it all apart and redo it all but the thought of tackling all the wires and components and media is daunting.

I keep putting it off as a spring cleaning task but spring is now here and I have no excuse.

I have some new components I need to hook up (like a battery backup, a cassette deck and hook my satellite to my pc) but there is just so much stuff.

I know when I start it will easily be 2 days before I get it back together, it will be better but thats 2 days without my pc. I feel sick...

Well, I'm done and it only took me a few hours. I cleaned the dust out of my enclosure with air and put velcro tabs above my vent screens. Those little vent filters you can buy at the hardware store are perfect filters for reducing the dust intake. The velcro tabs hold them in place till you fire up the computer then the fans hold them tight. At $1.99 for 10 filters When they dust up I just change them out. Yes, I realise the more clutter there is the more dust that forms. The filters work pretty good tho. PCs should come with intake filters.

fan filters are a must for family homes where kids shed skin running around. it gets into the pc, attracted to the fans. I find myself on a bi-yearly basis cleaning out my CPU and GPU fans because of dust and shedding skin. I've had to clean other peoples pc's where they are up in arms thinking it is a warranty job when their pc gets like that. It's nature!

My vent filters are working great

I just replaced the reference fan on my graphics card after it switched itself off mid gaming due to getting blocked up.

It's a reference pcb version of the ati x1950pro and I had to buy some aftermarket ram sinks as well as the Zalman vf700-cu flower fan as I needed to cover up two VRM chips as well. Had to use a rotary tool to narrow one down. Bit of a pain, but easy done.

Load temps dropped from 78 to 58c now. No more blocking up with dust either!

My vent filters are working great - Minimal dust
can of air once in awhile and its clean.

My To Do list is still quite lengthy. :crying:

I like how skwirlinator didn't reply to Tim's post for two and a half months. http://www.eyecravedvd.com/forums/images/smilies/bigthumbup.gif

Well, I was going to but I kept puttin it off