A year's dust/lint on my H100 radiator (pic)

[HalloweenWeed]

A year's dust/lint on my H100 radiator:



FYI. I do run my computer a lot, more than most gamers per week. I suspect somewhere around 80hrs/wk.

I just rotated my H100 block to put the hoses at the top too. I was getting 10-11*C disparity between two cores, I suspect there may have been an air bubble. Also I added a 35mm fan on the Vcore area of the VRM (I know they are not much airflow). I updated pic #6 in my ModsRigs. Going to try a re-OC very soon.

[Melting_Point]

BTW, I didn't get a photo of my Phantek HS, but it was just as bad after a year. But it wasn't just dust. It was black crappy stuff courtesy of the exhaust fumes from the main road I lived on. Very difficult to clean off. But after I did, temps went down by about 10°C.

[maximiza]

thats with a filter?

[Mankz]

maximiza wrote:
thats with a filter?

My photo wasn't.. I never bother with filters, just give things a good blast with air from time to time and then rebuild every couple months..

That radiator was after 18 months of 24/7 use.

[Chino]

This would make a great "Show off how dusty your PC is" thread. lol

[oG_kill3r]

DEMCiflex filters are what you need , i have a HAF 932 and a H100 push - pull with very little to no dust inside my pc .

[maximiza]

dust adds many degrees of heat i have been told.

[Mankz]

maximiza wrote:
dust adds many degrees of heat i have been told.

Water temps went from about 35* to over 60 by the end of it..

[Zygomorphic]

Mankz wrote:
Water temps went from about 35* to over 60 by the end of it..

It is a very good thermal insulator, since it traps air.

That pic is pretty gross. Do you, OP, have a furry/feathery pet by any chance?

[Mankz]

Zygomorphic wrote:
It is a very good thermal insulator, since it traps air.

It just gets so matted that the fans can't blow air through it, so the volume of air passing through the radiator lowers, and less heat transfer can take place, so the residual heat just builds up in the loop.

[Zygomorphic]

Mankz wrote:
It just gets so matted that the fans can't blow air through it, so the volume of air passing through the radiator lowers, and less heat transfer can take place, so the residual heat just builds up in the loop.

Yup! And when you get it coating the radiator fins of a heatsink, it dramatically reduces the amount of heat that escapes the fins.