On the Importance of Cleaning your filter...

Shadowknight · Post by **Shadowknight** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:35 pm

Lately, my Seasonic PSU was ramping up to maximum speed.... a LOT. Normally, it only ramps up when under load (i.e., gaming), but it was doing it as soon as I booted up Windows.

After 3 weeks of this, I finally (today) got around to taking off the front Bezel and cleaning the filter. No pics, sorry to say, but it was FILTHY after 8 months. After cleaning it out, the PSU can now get the cool air from the bottom of the case, and it runs quieter.

So, keep this in mind if you have filters on your case, and it seems like things are getting louder.

wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:40 pm

I'll clean my filter right now. I've been putting it off, see...

lenny · Post by **lenny** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:39 pm

Check out this thread. There's even a link to a photo of a dust clogged Zalman 7000.

Dos_Junkie · Post by **Dos_Junkie** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:14 pm

dust is a real bizatch. Still working on something better than filter (ionic breeze idea) that keeps airflow quality.

Yea, that poor zlaman. Working passively, basically. I hate to see things liek that. .....stilll, that's alot of dust

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:25 am

To me that's a reason to cut out stamped grills and to have the CPU fan blow air away from it, although the cooling improvements of that are more than enough of a reason alone.

peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:14 am

Wanna build an ioniser? Have a look Here.

Or allsorts of other stuff from bigclive.com.

Pete

Dos_Junkie · Post by **Dos_Junkie** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:38 am

no way! damn, he beat me too it. lol, that's way cool! Now i'm definately going to make one