what happens when you leave the pc alone for a year+ (56k warning)

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10-12-2008, 07:32 AM
NaeKuh

Quote:

Originally Posted by dinos22

surely water will stay in some parts of the housing

it really isnt needed
just use an old toothbrush

why would you want to spend time under water and scrub?

when you can just dunk in water and shake the living crap and dry?

:rofl:

Its about timing saving dinos. 10 min with a brush vs 15 sec on a shaking. :rofl:
10-12-2008, 08:32 AM
IanY

Take a shallow Pyrex glass serving dish. Put all your blocks (minus all rubber gaskets and seals) in the dish and your MCRES reservoir outside the dish. Place everything in the upper compartment of your dishwasher. Remove all kitchen utensils from the dishwasher. Run it on anti-bacterial pot scrubber super cycle. Make sure you have Jet Dry.

Finish your blocks with tomato ketchp, or Brazilian hot sauce, to polish.

Take your tubing. Use a straightened out wire hanger with a small loop at the end. Cut a small piece of cotton towel. Run through your tube. Place tube in dishwasher as well. Tygon won't melt.

Take bare radiator outside. Spray the crap out of it with a pressurized garden hose. Shake it dry very well. Make sure you sun dry it well. Thermochills do rust if left damp for too long.

Like Naekuh said, dunk your fans for half a second in water and shake them them dry. Leave them in the hot sun. Like Septim said, the best way to remove dust from your fans and case and pretty much everything else is baby wipes. Take it from us fathers DO NOT use baby wipes on anything acrylic, naturally, because its an alcohol based product.

Since you are going through the trouble, I would strip the case down and vacuum it as well.

Good luck :)
10-12-2008, 08:56 AM
j.almonte

uhmmmmmmm !!!!
Time to clean my HTPC....
Im scared what Im gonna find inside....
10-12-2008, 09:13 AM
hoax

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogard

I have done the same but mine has run for over a year and is filled with feser one...i gotta do pics of that soon :)

please do!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimmer411

Do you smoke?!
Ive got 3 cats, They are completely banned from my computer room since I have cleaned everything out. Mine after 6 months looked nowhere near as bad as that tho, wow!

I tried to ban the cat from this room, but she makes all the final decisions around here lol.

and yeah I do smoke but I recently got one of these: http://www.daikin.com.sg/products.asp?series=r5

amazing unit, gets rid of pretty much all smells. and should make things a bit less sticky hopefully

Quote:

Originally Posted by HaCKs

I have never seen computers grow like that! I would feel bad cleaning it out because at this point your computer is now a living object, and as a Buddhist I don't want to kill anything that is alive :-)

hahaha :up::up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by dinos22

thats not too bad
now you know you just need to vaccum clean the rad every 3 months and you're good to go

hehe thanks dinos.. lesson learned :p: :slap:

Quote:

Originally Posted by memolipd

lol thats mad, but an awesome post. I wonder just how many bugs are in there, bugs which u have raised, you are essentially their father. That seriously looks like a bio-hazard, have u been ill much recently?!

:ROTF::ROTF:

and nope, haven't been sick in long while

Quote:

Originally Posted by ANP !!!

Tygons seem to turn Yellow/green in hot ambient conditions, My total of 30feet of Tygons turned Yellow, due to hot weather at my location, So I finally moved to R3400 black tygons :D.

that was my original plan, but I bought the wrong ID and gave up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by naokaji

The real reason to upgrade regularly revealed:
it will never look like the pics in the first post.:p:

LOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaeKuh

u submerge the fans in water and shake the living crap out of them inside the water.
Dont worry, alex showed everyone on XS that yates work submerged in water and pink lemonade!
so all you really want to do is just let them bake outside in the sun tomorrow to dry.

thanks for clearing it up NaeKuh. like I said, I never heard of this before, and just like everything else you never heard before, as soon as you hear it the first time, you start to see it often: http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/...33&postcount=4

what do I got to lose, it sounds soooo er....different..lol... but I am going to try it anyway. I plan to use this machine as my guinea pig anyway... want to try a bunch of things that I never tried before (lapping?) :p:

thanks everyone for all the laughs :up:
10-12-2008, 11:20 AM
hoax

Quote:

Originally Posted by IanY

Take a shallow Pyrex glass serving dish. Put all your blocks (minus all rubber gaskets and seals) in the dish and your MCRES reservoir outside the dish. Place everything in the upper compartment of your dishwasher. Remove all kitchen utensils from the dishwasher. Run it on anti-bacterial pot scrubber super cycle. Make sure you have Jet Dry.

Finish your blocks with tomato ketchp, or Brazilian hot sauce, to polish.

Take your tubing. Use a straightened out wire hanger with a small loop at the end. Cut a small piece of cotton towel. Run through your tube. Place tube in dishwasher as well. Tygon won't melt.

Take bare radiator outside. Spray the crap out of it with a pressurized garden hose. Shake it dry very well. Make sure you sun dry it well. Thermochills do rust if left damp for too long.

Like Naekuh said, dunk your fans for half a second in water and shake them them dry. Leave them in the hot sun. Like Septim said, the best way to remove dust from your fans and case and pretty much everything else is baby wipes. Take it from us fathers DO NOT use baby wipes on anything acrylic, naturally, because its an alcohol based product.

Since you are going through the trouble, I would strip the case down and vacuum it as well.

Good luck :)

geez sorry IanY, somehow I missed your post. :shrug:

don't own a dishwasher, so will have to scrub the blocks manually...no big deal tho. I trashed the tubbing already, having to replace them once a year is not that bad, besides I don't think I would use 3603 again.

Everything else sounds like a perfect plan, only problem is a bunch of clouds...no sun today.. :soap:

weather reports for tomorrow are looking good tho. and I need to go buy some baby wipes :yepp:

thanks a lot for the help :)
10-12-2008, 11:30 AM
anubis_is_evil

dear god ! well thats is scary looks..

especially the rad, oh my ??? the fur almost closed all surface...

same with me, got problem with dust in my place, realy2 dusty...but still once a week, i'll have a look on my rig and the loop...and so far so good...

good luck with your "cleaning" hoax...
10-12-2008, 03:07 PM
voigts

This makes me glad for my black friday $40 2 gallon compressor. It makes it so easy to blow out the dust. I always add a drop of algaecide when I top off with distilled just for good measure. Those pics just give me the creeps.
10-12-2008, 03:54 PM
dinos22

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaeKuh

Its about timing saving dinos. 10 min with a brush vs 15 sec on a shaking. :rofl:

believe me i'm lazy too
it's easier for me to use a toothbrush every six months and not have to take the fan off the rad than do what you suggest :D

i place a vacuum cleaner in one hand and also stop the rad from spinning/moving while lightly brushing the fan so that the vacuum cleaner fan pick it up...quick job for me and then just stick the small nozzle in through the fan gaps and get some dust from the rad and it's all good mate :D hehehe

i dont really care anyways about OCing my main rig as i run a celeron in there :rofl: all i had lying around at the time and now i'm too lazy to take the block off and inject something more substantial...like say an E8400 or heheh

will do on the next run...i guess it'll get dustier now that summer is coming :rolleyes:
10-13-2008, 04:32 AM
septim

my intake air filters are like that during once a month cleaning... air filters/aluminum mosquito screen, use simple brush stroke down to waiting paper/tissue then fold and throw away to avoid spreading dirt again...

IanY i hear ya about the baby wipes and acrylic, i mostly use them on fans and keyboards and monitors (i hope monitors are ok)...
10-13-2008, 06:51 AM
IanY

Compressed air is great on fans, and it can get expensive with so many fans lol

Septim, I use baby wipes to clean cpu/NB/gpu dies as well
10-13-2008, 07:50 AM
gillbot

I use a vacuum with a crevice tool to pull the cat fur from my rads, I just go opposite fan flow. Then I give them a good cleaning.
10-13-2008, 08:33 AM
Garrett

I didn't know there were Furmochill radiators on the market :confused::rofl::ROTF:
Hahahaha, what a mess... excellent quality pics though, good luck cleaning everything :up:
10-13-2008, 08:44 AM
veedubfreak

Heh, i once had to work on a 5 year old computer that had been running 24/7 in a high school that actually looked worse than that. It looked like someone fed the cat into a woodchipper. Having 2 cats of my own, this is why i use filters. It takes less than a day to completely clog up the filters at the front, luckily i can just scrape the cathair off. Vaccuum out the filters every week or so and things stay nice and clean inside.
10-13-2008, 08:50 AM
Shocker003

This will happen to any pc that is left uncleaned for over a year, no matter how clean your house is and as far as there are pets in the house. Make sure you put some filters on those fans and rad, to save you some stress during your next pc maintance.
10-13-2008, 10:46 AM
Yozzman

Damn :|

Get a maid or something else that cleans up :up:
10-13-2008, 10:51 AM
NOFX

Hmm,not bad...look's like my first wc system after a month! :ROTF:
10-13-2008, 11:29 AM
NaeKuh

Quote:

Originally Posted by dinos22

believe me i'm lazy too
it's easier for me to use a toothbrush every six months and not have to take the fan off the rad than do what you suggest :D

heh if you say so. :T

i just throw all my fans in a bucket and shake the living crap out of them in soapy water, then rince in water, and let them bake out in the sun the whole day.

Never had a problem with any fan, infact i do that even to my BIG AC fans thats are proped on my window
10-13-2008, 11:42 AM
hoax

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaeKuh

heh if you say so. :T

i just throw all my fans in a bucket and shake the living crap out of them in soapy water, then rince in water, and let them bake out in the sun the whole day.

Never had a problem with any fan, infact i do that even to my BIG AC fans thats are proped on my window

Well the sun decided to show up so I spent the last few hours cleaning everything up ...and I just wanted to say that CLEANING FANS WITH A BUCKET IS NOT ONLY FUN BUT DAMN IS IT FAST! :ROTF: :ROTF:

WOW! :up::up::up::up::up::up:

literally....not even 2 minutes...and they all look brand new!

oh and I got a couple packs of baby wipes, I always thought they would leave that foamy mess behind but they actually make this MUCH easier/faster. so again, thanks!

:D
10-13-2008, 11:45 AM
Astratuner

lol your pc becomes alive

great pics mate hehe
10-13-2008, 11:52 AM
NaeKuh

hoax seeing how you have a PA series lemme recomend some additional stuff to help ya out.

1. http://www.jab-tech.com/120mm-Plasti...r-pr-2470.html

However you need to replace that crap internal filter as it sucks. To something a little thicker like this:
http://www.hectorshardware.biz/shop/...07&sku=437417&

The reason why i love that filter is because its SUPER easy to remove and clean and reinstall. And its VERY PA friendly.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_1086.jpg
10-13-2008, 11:53 AM
Bootup05

Them fans are just nasty.

:shakes:

EDIT: Talking about OP.

Not you Naekuh (sp) ? :P
10-13-2008, 12:18 PM
hoax

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astratuner

lol your pc becomes alive
great pics mate hehe

lol thanks mate :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaeKuh

hoax seeing how you have a PA series lemme recomend some additional stuff to help ya out.
1. http://www.jab-tech.com/120mm-Plasti...r-pr-2470.html
However you need to replace that crap internal filter as it sucks. To something a little thicker like this:
http://www.hectorshardware.biz/shop/...07&sku=437417&
The reason why i love that filter is because its SUPER easy to remove and clean and reinstall. And its VERY PA friendly.

Those AC filters look VERY nice, will try to get my hands on some ASAP! Thank you Naekuh. :up::up:

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Originally Posted by Bootup05

Them fans were just nasty.

fixed :p:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...i/IMG_3619.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...i/IMG_3620.jpg

bucket ftw! :cheer2:
10-13-2008, 01:50 PM
FuriousSalesman

Ok, so submersing Yates in water seem to work. Will dipping Sanyo Denki's in water to clean them work? Btw, nice job on cleaning them.
10-13-2008, 01:54 PM
Bootup05

Wow rofl are you sure you didn't just go out and buy a couple of new fans for pics? :ROTF:

They look brand new now. God knows how you got them from their old state!

Good job! :up:

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