Are you tired of dust

hmmm....
I don't know why it posted twice.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.  I'm in the process of moving.  It could be going bad.  Depends on the quality of the fan, hours of use, and if it was just a sucky built fan to begin with or not.  Also cleaning the dust could inadvertanly fix it by moving the bearing just enought that it's seated on a good area internally.  Then as time goes on and the fan runs it slips back to a bad area and starts clicking.  My above mod is the way I deal with all dust in my computer.  The fan sets behind the filter so even the fan is protected.

Thanks for the advice Savage. I am going to buy a new fan because if mine goes out then I am in BIG trouble.
How much does a fan cost??

Should be around 10 bucks.  I've seen them at Radio Shack before, depending on what size ya need.  Good Luck Man.

Originally Posted by Savage

We all know dust is bad for out computers.  It builds up on everything.  It cuts down on the heat transfer to the circulating air and when you get dustbunnies in you slots that can't be good.  So I did something about it this week.  I had bored out all the holes in the front of my case so my fan could breath better and draw more air a while back.  This time I took the dremel and cut off half of the front plastic part of the case.  I added a couple of magnets to hold back in place and some screws I could turn in or out to make it set right.  Then I got a foam element out of a wet dry vac (just cause it had a real fine foam in it).  Cut it up into two pieces and put them in the now removable half of the front of my case.  Added some oil from a wet based car air filter (the oil is sticky and helps grab more of the dust as it passes by). Slapped it together and look allright but more importantly if work real well.  My intake fan sucks all of it's air through the filters and keeps a lot of the crap out of my case.  And the foam also cuts down on the noise of the front fan.  It's almost half as noisy as it was.  Done it for about $10 American which I think makes the mod even better.

Savage...how strong are the magnets you are using. I have heard that it is not real good to get magnets anywhere your hard drive...can play real havoc with it.

I want to add some filters on the front of my Antec case as well. Only problem is that it is a real pain to take both side panels off just so I can get to the clips that hold the front face plate on. I have to remove it so I can put in a filter. Have been thinking quite seriously about it. I think one of my fans may be going bad anyway as I hear a dull rrrrrrrrrrr lower than my other fans and starting up shortly after everything else when I turn my system on. Any suggestions for a good quiet, but efficient case fan...need at least four of them. Thanks.

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Magnets are bad for you hard drive, because they pull the magnetic peices off of the platter. Most of today's hard drives are resistant (not completely magnet proof) to magnets, and, from personal experience, I can say they are.

I havn't seen any problems with the Magnets hurting the drive. It's about 4 inches away so I figure the huge CRT about 1 foot away would have much more of an effect on the drive. As far as particular fans I just use whatever I can get my hands on. As long as it moves air it can't all be bad.

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Well, I don't believe that CRT's generate magnetism, they're just affected by it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I've heard.

They are affected but because they also use and generate magnetism. On the top, bottom, and both sides of the tube you will find a large coil of wire. This is magnetized to bend the streams of electrons from the rear of the tube to diffrent point on the front. Your screen is painted one pixel at a time because you only have one tube and one electron stream generated by your 3 electron guns (green, red, and blue). The coils bend the stream back and forth and up and down the screen extremly fast to refresh the screen. When you get magnets too close to the tube it interfers with the coils and doesn't allow them to bend the stream properly. Maybe a little to much info but I hope it helps.

my case has so many fans it sounds like a plane