A player shows a graphics card that is completely filthy. And according to him, the whole computer looks this way. The reason for this is somewhat tragic.
A player reports on reddit that he cleaned a gaming PC. He comments on it with a few pictures that he attaches to the post. The graphics card in the picture is covered in a brown-black substance and looks anything but good.
The fans of the GTX 1080Ti are completely clogged. In another post, the player explains that not only the graphics card but the entire computer looked this way. The player also reports that the graphics card had only been delivering 70% of its original performance in the end.
The best friend is a heavy smoker, and the gaming PC is “smoking” along
What is the reason for the heavy pollution? The player explains in another now-deleted post on reddit that the computer belongs to a good friend who smokes heavily and a lot. For this reason, the computer becomes so heavily polluted.
The community is quite surprised and dismayed by this. One user states somewhat incredulously:
He just has to stop smoking. If something that has only been smoked second-hand looks like this, you can imagine how the insides of a person look.
Other users agree with the comment that the smoking person should take better care of their health.
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Dirt can cause PCs to overheat and lead to other problems
Why do computers get dirty at all? There are always dust and dirt particles in the air, and almost everything releases tiny particles into the air: Your skin, carpets, other electronic devices, and animals all leave their traces in the air, which eventually settles as dust or dirt on your hardware.
In the case of this user, the fans of the PC also draw in cigarette smoke into the computer. And the dirt and smoke settle on the hardware.
Why should you regularly clean your computer? Dirt and dust clog access paths for air or your fans. This then means that some components or parts cannot dissipate heat properly and therefore become significantly overheating.
The processor and graphics card then throttle performance to cope with the heat or shut down in emergencies to protect components. Your PC will slow down as a result. This is also explained by the user who cleaned the PC: The graphics card could only deliver 70% of its original performance.
Moreover, dirty fans are significantly louder as they have to spin much faster to adequately cool components like the CPU or graphics card. Another player recently showed why you should regularly clean your gaming PC: Gamer opens his gaming PC for the first time in 6 years and shows why you should not make the same mistake
