This is a picture of a client’s 5-year old PC. It’s snuggly, but don’t think all that fuzz is doing it a favor. The most failure-prone element of any computer is the hard drive, and one of the biggest enemies of a hard drive is heat. I don’t advocate ripping a computer apart every other week, but if you notice it running particularly loud, and if you’re in an environment predisposed to a lot of dust, you may want to clean it out every half-year or so to keep things running well.

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