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Diamond?

How old is that thing?

Good grief I thought my system was fithy after going almost a year without cleaning it.

It's an i5 750 system from however long ago that was current. I think the GPU is a 512MB Radeon 4750.

I got the system from a friend of mine, and I'm going to (hopefully) get it working and give it to a different friend that needs a PC.


Edit: This thing was probably never cleaned out, ever. Think 1 year's a long time to go without cleaning? It was probably closer to 5 years in this case.

Edit 2: It still ran, too. It was constantly throttling and it sounded like a vacuum cleaner, but it worked.

Edit: This thing was probably never cleaned out, ever. Think 1 year's a long time to go without cleaning? It was probably closer to 5 years in this case.

Edit 2: It still ran, too. It was constantly throttling and it sounded like a vacuum cleaner, but it worked.

I ended up cleaning my system AGAIN a few months AFTER I cleaned it the first time. My video card doesn't like to be dusty.

A few years ago I cleaned out my sister-in-law's system.

The CPU HSF:


The floppy drive:


The front air intake:

whm1974 wrote:

Good grief I thought my system was fitly after going almost a year without cleaning it.

I've gone 10 years without cleaning a computer when it was in a dusty room. It was still cleaner than that by far.

From the home of someone who smokes indoors, by any chance?

Melvar wrote:

It's an i5 750 system from however long ago that was current. I think the GPU is a 512MB Radeon 4750.

I got the system from a friend of mine, and I'm going to (hopefully) get it working and give it to a different friend that needs a PC.


Edit: This thing was probably never cleaned out, ever. Think 1 year's a long time to go without cleaning? It was probably closer to 5 years in this case.

Edit 2: It still ran, too. It was constantly throttling and it sounded like a vacuum cleaner, but it worked.

The i5 750 is still a rather capable CPU. Give it a good cleaning, pop on a hyper 212 evo, and crank it to 4 GHz. Pair it with a modern GPU and your friend is in business.

Captain Ned wrote:

Diamond?

How old is that thing?

They still make cards. They may be a different company that just bought the name, but still.

Wow just nasty. My furnace filter after 6 month of continuous use looks cleaner than that!! My PC will be in this house 3 yrs this august and has not been cleaned and barely any dust in it.

Prestige Worldwide wrote:

The i5 750 is still a rather capable CPU. Give it a good cleaning, pop on a hyper 212 evo, and crank it to 4 GHz. Pair it with a modern GPU and your friend is in business.

That's what I'm thinking.

Mentawl wrote:

From the home of someone who smokes indoors, by any chance?

Yep.

Just Wow!!

I cant believe that computer even ran at all

Melvar wrote:

Mentawl wrote:

From the home of someone who smokes indoors, by any chance?

Yep.

Not that anyone with the habit is ever likely to listen, but if you want to show a smoker what their lungs look like, and they smoke indoors, show them the inside of their PC.

Cigarette tar particles are microscopic --that is, until they bond with dust and create this brown, sticky, sludgy goop that clogs fans and sticks to every vent and surface in a PC. Back when PC shops still existed (and I worked in one) we had a mandatory cleaning fee we'd tack on to the bad PCs, just because the tech had to deal with the nastiness to work on one.

I remember having one PC whose tar wasn't from cigarette smoke --that was 3 times worse and gave me a massive headache.

LoneWolf15 wrote:

Melvar wrote:

Mentawl wrote:

From the home of someone who smokes indoors, by any chance?

Yep.

Not that anyone with the habit is ever likely to listen, but if you want to show a smoker what their lungs look like, and they smoke indoors, show them the inside of their PC.

Cigarette tar particles are microscopic --that is, until they bond with dust and create this brown, sticky, sludgy goop that clogs fans and sticks to every vent and surface in a PC. Back when PC shops still existed (and I worked in one) we had a mandatory cleaning fee we'd tack on to the bad PCs, just because the tech had to deal with the nastiness to work on one.

I remember having one PC whose tar wasn't from cigarette smoke --that was 3 times worse and gave me a massive headache.

I built a PC for someone a few years ago and I actually had to go clean the heat sink and fans out a couple months ago because it was crashing in pogo games from overheating. It certainly didn't help that AMD's stock heatsinks were pretty bad (it was an A6 3670K), but it was totally clogged with tar. I honestly can't believe that people do that to themselves, their families and their belongings.

Getting hooked is the easy part --it's getting unhooked that is hard. It's amazing how efficient the human lung is that it can manage to remove so much of that goop for so long.

While it may not be better from a nicotine perspective, at least today's e-cigarettes provide the oral fixation and don't have the tar.

I doubt there's any tobacco residue in those pics. This is the Pacific Northwest after all.

I'm not saying that makes it okay, I'm just sayin'.

Man, I swear that the HP dc7900 SFF I took out of the woodshop at a school after 5 years was far cleaner. Even though the air in there was pretty polluted with wood dust. We may have cleaned it a year or few before that though.

Melvar wrote:

Mentawl wrote:

From the home of someone who smokes indoors, by any chance?

Yep.

Knew it. What a nasty mess.

LoneWolf15 wrote:

While it may not be better from a nicotine perspective, at least today's e-cigarettes provide the oral fixation and don't have the tar.

While true, it's still a chemical+nicotine soup. Just because it can't be seen doesn't mean there aren't second-hand fumes, and I wouldn't want to be breathing near that stuff.

Makes me wonder what a heavy vape user's system would look like after five years, I'd guess the nicotine buildup might be enough to give some people skin rashes even if it isn't visible.

Kougar wrote:

Melvar wrote:

Mentawl wrote:

From the home of someone who smokes indoors, by any chance?

Yep.

Knew it. What a nasty mess.

LoneWolf15 wrote:

While it may not be better from a nicotine perspective, at least today's e-cigarettes provide the oral fixation and don't have the tar.

While true, it's still a chemical+nicotine soup. Just because it can't be seen doesn't mean there aren't second-hand fumes, and I wouldn't want to be breathing near that stuff.

Makes me wonder what a heavy vape user's system would look like after five years, I'd guess the nicotine buildup might be enough to give some people skin rashes even if it isn't visible.

Actually, a colleague of mine tried that and switched back to real cigarettes, because he also found some nasty stuff in the vape tube. Plus the cost is still more.