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What was supposed to be a simple HDD to SSD upgrade for my brother ended up taking 3 fucking days.

His computer's idle temp was fucking 90c because of fucking YEARS worth of dust preventing fans from breathing, one of them was even dead so I had to go to best buy to get a new one.

Had a power outage happen in the middle of cleaning the damn dust out before replacing the bad fan. It took close to 24 hours for it to come back, and I just didn't bother until the day after cause fuck that.

When I go back to it, I finish cleaning the dust, clone the old HDD to the new SSD, do the swap out, replace the thermal paste on CPU cause why the fuck not at this point. Then turn it on to test, yeah from 90c down to 20c : |

Yeah... so I charged him for the new fan, and the hour-ish it took me to clean the damn dust and replace the fan... (drive was agreed to be done for free as a favor) Yeah not really worth charging for but I was pissed and that was the 'nicest' way I could show how annoyed I was with him not properly caring for the PC. Like honestly 90 degrees celsius. I refuse to believe he didn't notice impacted performance in his games

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    @electrineer I don't think he smokes. He just apparently never cleans his damn room or something idk
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    Jesus get that man an air purifier and an exorcism
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    Black mold is it?
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    @netikras could be also ash from burning wood
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    Or well, burning almost anything
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    It's just compressed dust.

    Most likely given the temperature "enriched" with ash.

    If you want to teach him a lesson, lay such a dust bunny on his hand and ignite it....

    Stuff burns great. For obvious reasons.

    Dust is dangerous, especially in high concentrations. Small fires near the PSU / live wires / electrical outlets can do a whole lot of collateral damage....

    The coating of most wires inside a PC is btw not fire resistent. :)
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