Personal Project - Wife's PC Dust Resistance & Colour Scheme Updating Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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so I'm working on a little change up in my wife's PC I decided to pull out the
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uh G1 sniper and go with a more
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reasonable board so I'm just using a
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Gigabyte uh p67a I'm actually changing the CPU as well I had a 2500k in there
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before and I'm going to be putting in a 2600k this is an ancient sample board so
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this is actually using the B2 chipset which means I can only use the theta 3 6
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GB pers second ports without uh without them eventually dying but that's fine
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because I'm only using a single SSD for the boot drive and then uh a SATA
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optical drive for this machine and I just the only reason that I'm uh
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bringing this up is because actually I'm just going to move this out of the way
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it can
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sit over here with the other computers
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that are on this shelf like motherboards
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going on got another one sitting over there anyway that can go there for
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now okay so the reason I brought this up is because I'm going to be reconfiguring
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the air flow in this machine a little bit because it's been um a little bit
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problematic so you know she's like yeah yeah I like the ark midi case it's my
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favorite case that's what I want my PC in but she doesn't like this big uh dust
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thing going on here so there's a filter on the front of the case but you can see
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it accumulates quite a lot of dust um
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not very attractive also I've been having some problems with overall dust
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buildup inside the case as well and what I realized it's due to the negative air
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flow on the case so while the intakes are filtered we so we can keep a lot of
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the dust out that way it's still better to maintain positive air pressure inside
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the case so what I'm going to be doing is I'm actually going to take this fan
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out entirely so I'm not going to have any intake fans
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whatsoever and then what I'm going to do well okay oh sorry sorry so I'm not
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going to have any intake fans in the front so that'll mean that I won't have
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that uh that ring of dust in the front and then what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to turn all of these around and
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I'm going to use the ones at the top and the back as intakes so what I'm hoping
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that will help me achieve is to have uh
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overall positive air pressure inside which means that dust is less likely to
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get sucked in and little cracks in the case and also by having all the intakes
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higher up up I'm hoping that less dust will be brought in in general because it
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won't be sitting right on the floor so we'll see how this goes so the purpose
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of this video was uh several fold so number one was to talk about positive
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air pressure a little bit with respect to uh keeping dust out of your case so
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you want to use filtered intakes and then have overall positive pressure
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inside the case so that it blows out the little cracks uh number two was cuz
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several of you had asked about my um my wife's machine so I figured I'd show you
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guys the finished build now that it's done and number three was that since I
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was taking it apart anyway because look at this color scheme I mean yeah yeah if
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you guys are wondering why I would have downgraded the motherboard the reason is
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that this just doesn't go with the
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overall look of this particular case so hold on let me just blow out this you
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can see the dust ring right not really no okay well whatever it's
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there I wish I had compressed air but I
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don't
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we'll call that good enough okay throw that on there and
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now the properly finished build now that
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the color scheme has been corrected so I've got my special signature Linus
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Edition RAM in there which is blue and black and then everything else see
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there's a couple little blue accents there's some blue accents on the heat
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sink of the yeah on the heat sink so the motherboard itself and then other than
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that we've got a black and gray and white sort of grayscale overall theme
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going on in here all of these are just stock Parts I haven't done anything
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particularly special because let's face it it's important to me but it's still
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not my machine um so uh so
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yeah oh yeah so these are all intakes and then this CPU uh cooler doesn't need
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any kind of additional cooling since I swapped out the G1 uh Sniper 2 is it
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what was it a G1 Sniper 2 something like that yeah Sniper 2 I had to throw in a
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sound card so that's just an older aente sound card just because uh I don't have
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that awesome onboard audio anymore so we can go ahead and close this up oh yeah
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overall specs so we got a 2600k 8 gigs of Linus Edition RAM p67 GB board MSI
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GTX 560 Hawk with the twin frozer 3 cooler we've got a PC power and cooling
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silencer MK3 modular power supply ocz agility 120 gig
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SSD um did I say 2600k already
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I'm not sure uh right thermal take Silver Arrow heat sink and then
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obviously all of that is in the fractal design Arc
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midi and mid tower case there we go so
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it's time to put this back and then um I
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can have my computer back because that is apparently how this works when this
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computer is down I forfeit the right to use mine
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