Oh yeah, wanted to add this....I have an Antec case with one fan in front sucking air in and two in back sucking air out (a case fan and the PSU). The case has a grille on the door side and flanges in the front. There is a cool little plastic cage for the front fan to snap into. The back fan is mounted on the case. I am seriously considering replacing my stock Intel heatsink/fan with one of these Zalman products - the CNPS9500 LED or the CNPS7000B-ALCU. The CNPS9500 LED is pretty amazing, for the fan sits horizontal over the CPU and blows air out the back of the case (toward the back case fan).
- dc
When I was living with a friend of mine (he's married now and this was about three years or more ago) he had two Ionic Breeze filters. I can personally vouch that these things are totally useless. It was a two bedroom apartment and there was always dust, even with these things running 24/7. We would clean them and sure enough the blades inside were black with filth, but neither of us ever noticed a signifigant reduction in the dust in the apartment.
Later after he got married and I got my own place (the one I have now) I bought a Honeywell from drugstore.com (you can see it here: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=836 08&catid=46773&trx=GFI-0-PLP&trxp1=46773&trxp2=836 08&trxp3=1&trxp4=1&btrx=BUY-GFI-0-PLP).
I had another Honeywell in a small boarding house room with two cats years before, and even with the two cats and the litter box and myself people always commented how they could not smell anything unpleasant. So it was because of this experience that I returned to the Honeywell brand. It is an awesome air purifier and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to seriously control the room dust.
As for the computer dust problem I don't have much to share. I just keep my case and PC components clean and run the Honeywell as much as possible. Keeping myself and the apartment clean also helps.:)
I want to thank all of you for the great tips. I'm going to get my tower up off the floor and I got a couple boxes of Swiffer pads so I'm going to try that filter idea.
As for the vacuum I want to share a story on that...a friend of mine vacummed the inside of his case one time and then his computer wouldn't start. Come to find out he'd sucked up a couple jumpers off the mobo. So I would be leary of using a vacuum inside the case.
- dc
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Oh yeah, wanted to add this....I have an Antec case with one fan in front sucking air in and two in back sucking air out (a case fan and the PSU). The case has a grille on the door side and flanges in the front. There is a cool little plastic cage for the front fan to snap into. The back fan is mounted on the case. I am seriously considering replacing my stock Intel heatsink/fan with one of these Zalman products - the CNPS9500 LED or the CNPS7000B-ALCU. The CNPS9500 LED is pretty amazing, for the fan sits horizontal over the CPU and blows air out the back of the case (toward the back case fan). - dc
When I was living with a friend of mine (he's married now and this was about three years or more ago) he had two Ionic Breeze filters. I can personally vouch that these things are totally useless. It was a two bedroom apartment and there was always dust, even with these things running 24/7. We would clean them and sure enough the blades inside were black with filth, but neither of us ever noticed a signifigant reduction in the dust in the apartment. Later after he got married and I got my own place (the one I have now) I bought a Honeywell from drugstore.com (you can see it here: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=836 08&catid=46773&trx=GFI-0-PLP&trxp1=46773&trxp2=836 08&trxp3=1&trxp4=1&btrx=BUY-GFI-0-PLP).
I had another Honeywell in a small boarding house room with two cats years before, and even with the two cats and the litter box and myself people always commented how they could not smell anything unpleasant. So it was because of this experience that I returned to the Honeywell brand. It is an awesome air purifier and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to seriously control the room dust.
As for the computer dust problem I don't have much to share. I just keep my case and PC components clean and run the Honeywell as much as possible. Keeping myself and the apartment clean also helps. :)
I want to thank all of you for the great tips. I'm going to get my tower up off the floor and I got a couple boxes of Swiffer pads so I'm going to try that filter idea.
As for the vacuum I want to share a story on that...a friend of mine vacummed the inside of his case one time and then his computer wouldn't start. Come to find out he'd sucked up a couple jumpers off the mobo. So I would be leary of using a vacuum inside the case.
- dc