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Took old pictures out and redid for visibility!

So I started noticing a weird smell coming from my computer and opened it to find out what might be going on.
What I found was too horrible to comprehend!

I don't smoke nor do I have any cats.
But I have a baby who needs to be changed... alot!
They must have gotten in through the air intake fans.

This is my laptop and my only computer. It is so dirty I had to blur stuff out for the viewing audience....


(If you wanna know what the images blurred out actually are just PM me because none of them are dirty... shhhhhh)

Spring cleaning means making space right? I hope she fits.

See those two 180mm fans? Filters + Positive Pressure = Clean case. Now the X58/i7 920 and GTX460 are getting a little old and 6GB doesn't seem so amazing as it once was, but with an SSD upgrade this sucker is still rocking.



I'm sure I can find something to do with some new parts, maybe have a friend over to game together?

September

Edit: Derp, didn't notice that this thread is for submissions only, sorry!

What is "spring"? You must mean second winter.

My 386DX.



CPU closeup (go AMD!).



Super I/O + Trident 8900D + cobwebs are all that's left in there.



Some detail shots.



After cleanup it's booted. "CMOS battery state low" and video is a bit flaky, but no serious problems. Alas, the 5.25" drive wouldn't read the DOS 5 floppy, and there's no HDD anymore. The HDD semi-worked the last time I checked (been a while), and the computer booted on a second reset, but after some reading it was just dry scratchy noises. Maybe I need to lube the bearings.



I liked this case. Nice full tower, LCD MHz display (16MHz with turbo off), IBM logo (taken from a printer). The PC Speaker was beefed up, including an external volume and on/off control box I made for it. The computer's is power efficient, BTW. Less than 30W in BIOS idle.

Built my rig around 4 years ago, still kicking even with how dusty it is!

lol at Meerkt.. a 386!!! awesome thats an antique now!

I have two images of my home NAS box:





The main this system is full of dust and hair? Cats. They think they own this place.

this was my first computer! I couldn't figure out how to post a picture on my phone so I had my friend Katie to post it on her Facebook for me https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1 ... &source=46

My old PC was in desperate need of a spring cleaning...



It was also pretty dusty

click img for larger size

last cleaned Apr 4-2014

Ready for classic cleaning my rig with tornado vacuum...

Probably needs a little more than a spring cleaning, a full replacement with prizes won from this contest would do just fine. Thanks TR!

Getting ready to move, was just taking a peek at my friend's BF4 rig...

Edit: link to image
Edit 2: forgot to resize image
I'm surprised it doesn't overheat when he starts the game. He's still running C2Q + GTX260
Also, he's running negative pressure which is why it's so dusty...

Little Totoro says it's all Big Totoro's fur.

Uncle Sam is fightin' mad that I opened the case! LOL!

My entry:

Good luck, everyone. I'd really love to win!

superjawes wrote:

My old PC was in desperate need of a spring cleaning...



It was also pretty dusty

OK.. I LOL'd

^omg I missed that lol

Here's my pc i bought it i think jan or feb 2007 Windows vista has a broke galaxy geforce gt520 1gig gpu a 1.70gh single core cpu, 4 gigs ram, 300gig hard drive
she's old but can surf the internet like no tomorrow or lag out playing minecraft =p

I just brought this PC a year ago and it broke 8 months in i am in need of a new PC because it feels like i just lost $1000. My spring cleaning is taking apart this PC and try to sell some parts that works. Thank you.

This is my old PC, it's been used by my mom for the last 5 years. But she does not like electronics so she does not clean it , i forgot to add the date and techreport.com hope its not a problem took the photo today 20. April 2014

my current pc

[*]Hello, I'm here because I found the contest online. I didn't see an place to say hello and introduce myself so hello my name is mcclave.

There are some pretty dirty entries here and if that's what you are going by I don't stand a chance. My son and husband built this computer for me and there is no way I would ever allow it to get as dirty as some of these I have seen. My son told me to check this spot at least once a week and it it needs cleaning then the whole computer does even if it doesn't look like it. I have a small compressor with an air valve that I use to clean it. I use to buy the compressed air but I can fill my bike tires with this too.

This is a very generous contest and you would have to be crazy not to want to win it!

Happy Easter Everybody!

Screw it! I forgot to add the paper with the info and the photo came out too big. I'm ready to pull my hair out! Got to go for a walk! Good Luck to all of you that were able to do it right! LOL!

I was getting ready to do some spring cleaning on my secondary rig the other day. I opened up the case, and look at what I found!



Yep -- my Acrobots were already cleaning the case. It's a big job, and they could use all the extra compressed air they can get -- that, and a new case to live in that has awesome new hardware