Giving a pc a good clean out

[CMAC]

I have a pretty intense routine!

Virus scans twice a week, CCleaner once a week, various other scans once a week.

Only got 1 HDD so rarely defrag, usually once every couple of months unless I have been installing or downloading lots onto it. Its a big of a place to dump stuff I dont want clogging up my THREE SSDs

Every month I give the insides a good air dusting, the outside surfaces a wipe down and the fans a good clean. I also take out the graphics card and give that a good blowing out too.

Every 6 odd months I strip everything out, give the fans and radiators a deep clean with a vacuum (after totally removing them from the case of course).

Once a year I redo the thermal paste on my CPU, but only if the temps are starting to go up compared to my benchmark

Thats verging on OCD

you seriously redo the thermal paste?

 

[ScienceBoy]

I wont ever run a pc on a mechanical drive ever again as the difference is night and day.

Back on the days of my P4 HT @ 2.4 on a spindle @ 7200 a virus scan would take hours and hours. Now with something like 5 times the amount of data its done in minutes. Just a quick peek at the read write speeds, over 150MB/s, and you can see why! Throw in all the other things faster, RAM over twice as fast, processor has four times as many threads, etc etc etc and I wonder how we ever coped 5 years ago!

Thats verging on OCD

you seriously redo the thermal paste?

Yup, drops the temperatures of the CPU and cores by about 10C at idle and 15 under load.

 

[Phil2511]

I looked at those SSD drives .....
Does a 60 GB SSD drive hold the same amount of info as a 60 GB mechanical drive?

Yeah but reads and writes the info so so so much faster.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Yeah but reads and writes the info so so so much faster.

Does it read and write in languages other than English too?

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Yeah Phil2511 tells me that the porn loads much faster too :whoo: :lol:

 

[philly169]

I just clean up mine when it doesn't work... Not very often!

 

[Phil2511]

Yeah Phil2511 tells me that the porn loads much faster too :whoo: :lol:

You really are old.

What I said was the horn sounds much faster lol

 

[PhilTheFragger]

You really are old.

What I said was the horn sounds much faster lol

Ok respect, you got out of that one pretty well

 

[viscount17]

I bought a new laptop recently - 18 x the harddrive, 10x the Ram of my old desktop - slower than a monoped on a unicycle. Took nearly 2.5 hours to do a back-up, takes forever to download stuff. more than a bit p'd off. I talked to my local pc emporium, mentioned I'd loaded Norton 360, his reaction - oh jesus! It's going in for a complete check (it's more than possible I've set something up wrong but . . . )

 

[brendy]

I bought a new laptop recently - 18 x the harddrive, 10x the Ram of my old desktop - slower than a monoped on a unicycle. Took nearly 2.5 hours to do a back-up, takes forever to download stuff. more than a bit p'd off. I talked to my local pc emporium, mentioned I'd loaded Norton 360, his reaction - oh jesus! It's going in for a complete check (it's more than possible I've set something up wrong but . . . )

I hate all of nortons products with a passion. I wouldnt advise anyone to use the free period you get with a lot of HPs etc never mind pay the fee they ask each year.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I hate all of nortons products with a passion. I wouldnt advise anyone to use the free period you get with a lot of HPs etc never mind pay the fee they ask each year.

My parents used it for ages, their PC was unbearable, I just could not understand how they used it. Turns out they didn't and just ended up buying some mac books and ipads instead. Best option for those who need it!

 

[RGDave]

I don't use any of these tools; CCleaner, Malwarebytes, Iobit, none of them.

I stopped larking around with these products ages ago.

I use anti-virus (of course) and selective startup to stop certain products (cough, cough, apple, cough, clear throat) running loose on my computer. Disk defrag/cleanup routinely, automated back-up, and that's about it.

I often had "glitches" with CCleaner and Iobit.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I don't use any of these tools; CCleaner, Malwarebytes, Iobit, none of them.

I stopped larking around with these products ages ago.

I use anti-virus (of course) and selective startup to stop certain products (cough, cough, apple, cough, clear throat) running loose on my computer. Disk defrag/cleanup routinely, automated back-up, and that's about it.

I often had "glitches" with CCleaner and Iobit.

Never had any issues with them, always been useful programs.

Back on XP things like those were a lifesaver to get more out of old hardware in a time where programs and games were getting more and more demanding. I remember spending just as much time getting my XP machine whipped into shape, was half the fun to I guess.

Now with fancy i7s and i5s rigs with power far outstripping the need for multiple programs at once they are more of a preventative measure than an actual fix.

I still use them just to keep things from getting anywhere close to being an issue.