I have an air cooled pc i want to put in my wood working workshop but for obvious reasons I’m worried it’s going to get fricked with all the dust. Is there a way i can contain it or use a filter to prevent the innermost things of my gaming pc from becoming caked with dust? Thanks
theoretically, you could treat this as a positive pressure room, though, doing it incorrectly would have heat implications, possibly static electricity build up if not done correctly. you would have to pipe (forgot the ventilation term... maybe it's vents?) clean cooling air from elsewhere (outside of the workshop) directly into the computer case (OR a box to hold the ENTIRETY of the PC). Basically, pressurizing the volume space inhibiting dust from accumulating. You'd want the supply fan to be turned on at all times for obvious reasons
good luck, it would be cool to see what you come up with
God.. why have a gaming pc inside of a woodworking workshop. Silly silly....
If you want it to be safe from most of the dust, you probably want to see if you can place it inside of a closet or something where it still gets decent airflow, and then you run a lightning cable to a hub with all of your peripherals. One thing is for sure, I dont think youre going to be able to filter out all of that fine dust in the computer with standard computer dust filters.
Maybe the best solution is simply to blow out the PC every now and then with an air compressor ?
Best and pretty much only option is this https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-P1-Passive-CPU-Cooler/dp/B08WC64NN8
along with no graphics card and no fans anywhere in the system, closed off case will help too
If there are any adjoining rooms, you could put the PC there and run a monitor & usb cable through the wall. You can have pretty long runs of HDMI and keyboard/mouse cables, like 50+ feet) before you'd start to see any kinds of problems or latency. Unless their cheap chinese garbage cables, but those are usually bad regardless of length.
I would go for external watercooling, but is good too, maybe even cheaper. There are also cases that have a massive alu slab as a passive cooler. Look for fanless / passive cooling cases. These lose performance fast as they get dirty, but if its just dust its easy to clean.
>passive cooling in closed off case
The other option is a mineral oil full submersion build, and you can basically seal it so no dust gets in it.
I actually saw one in the wild a decade ago, it was a tannery's accountant PC they've gotten built because the chemicals in the air just corrode the frick out of everything metal and they couldn't afford downtime for her.
Passive cooling doesn't need to be fancy, you can just use a giant heatsink
Cover it with panty hose. That's worked since at least Desert Shield and decades before that as an off-road air filter prefilter sock. No need to overthink it. Panty hose also save shop vac filters.
filters get clogged
just keep it in a closed (but not air tight) cabinet and take an air hose to it once in awhile
it's no more of a fire hazard than anything else in your workshop if it gets full of dust
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/MM01/
a HEPA filter would be clogged up in a matter of days in a woodworking shop.
I put panty hose over HEPA filters too. This is proven, ancient and there is no doubt that it does the job therefore no reason not to do it. Stupid builds on a machine being dumped in a shop are silly.
Non-silly option would be a fanless thin client hung on the wall with a cling-wrapped keyboard or put a box over keyboard when not using it, then put the monster somewhere else on your LAN and remote into it to do stuff from the shop. Smol PCs also work as thick clients, just ensure whatever you get isn't total ewaste. There are plenty of vids about all that and the parts are dirt cheap.
There's also fanless tiny PCs/NUCs if you don't need a high-end gaming rig in the shop. They're equivalent to a good modern laptop and meant for industrial environments.
They can also be used to remote desktop into a more powerful machine located elsewhere should the NUC not have enough power to do the needful.
I too have an aircooled PC, which sits on my desk in a joinery factory. Dust is fine just open the side panel and give it a blow out with an airgun once a month
I used to work in a shipping warehouse, and we would need to blow out the carboard dust from all the PCs and printers on a weekly basis with pic related.
just do that regularly, and you'll be fine. also pic related is great for just blowing dust away, and cleaning yourself off
I certainly hope it's some officecore piece of shit. Anything fancy or custom is a bad fit. Intakes are the biggest risk.
>gaming pc
Fricking idiot. What point is there? Why do you need your high end rig in the workshop? That's where you put something old, something meant for workshop environments, or a custom build. Liquid cooling with an external radiator, or hell just some pi or pi clone if you don't need any seriously heavy workload.
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