Quote Originally Posted by Whacker View Post
All well and good, but PCs do get old and not like a fine wine either. Dust and crap gets clogged in fans, nooks and crannies, etc. Even with diligent and thorough cleaning, fans will eventually wear themselves out over time and not push as much air as they should. Not all PCs are designed alike, and some cases have miserable airflow characteristics and thus constant thermal issues. In short, you may or may not always be able to have one of those 20 hour gaming marathons in Bikram yoga-like conditions. I salute your "drive it til the wheels fall off" mindset however.



Having a disc sitting in the tray is perfectly fine.

Cool- and thanks for the replies Whacker.

I do spend a fair amount of time tending to the pc's maintenance and cleanliness...believe me. I want it to last as long as possible and I enjoy having it.

The thing is that as you said- they age. There's simply no way to keep the PC in the condition it starts day 1 at. Further, if the temp outside is 100 degrees- well come on, I mean PC makers can't be expecting people to not use their PC because the weather got warm. In my eyes, if my PC usage would need to be restrained according to the weather- well then my PC is just going to die an early death.

Although in all seriousness- From what I do know (and my friend who took a once over of the system once- and he is borderline "expert") my system has 10/10 airflow/cooling. Apparently, as my friend said, he was surprised to see how "on top of things" my system was.

That said- yeah it's gonna roll over and croak one day. But it's only less than 4 months old- and to be honest, I have another desktop that I have done virtually NOTHING as far as maintenance with in over 7 years (i don't even think it's seen a spyware scan or windows update in 2 years) and it's as reliable today as it was day 1...which is crazy lol. But yeah, my computer is a gaming PC and ...worth quite a bit more than this PC and that's why I put effort into it's maintenance in the first place.

To be as careful as possible...without losing my sanity. I would say that's my "end goal" with computer usage. Thanks again.