For those who don’t like to take risk, here are some of the things you may notice due to heavy dust accumulation:

1. You get to hear lot of noise generating inside your cabinet. Usually generated by the fans while CPU and GPU usage are at max.
2. Your software applications will freeze! (Though heat is the actual culprit)
3. You will start seeing unwanted lines, glitches, dots, color variations while playing games that requires extensive GPU resource or even while running DirectX based apps like Google Earth.
4. Your monitor blacks-out. Similar to fighter pilots who experience blackouts while having extreme plunge towards the earth. It happens because blood will start flowing towards the brain. Similarly, when your GPU is running at full throttle, it will experience similar effect where it encounters bottleneck in dataflow. In this case, dust is the main cause. It is because; dust acts like an insulator on the PCB and will block the flow of signals (I believe so).
5. Worst case, your computer restarts or shutdowns. Worse case, components might blow up!
6. You will be f**king annoyed!

Since I experienced the first 4 stuffs, I decided to remove dust. Unfortunately, I even noticed something that may lead to the 5th stuff

Now here are the pics I took while cleaning up the cabinet. And just for your kind information, my main objective was to remove the dust and not to make it look shiny. Also, I am using a old hardware. No need to comment on it :p

Before cleaning:

After cleaning:

Before and After:

And while cleaning the graphic card, I noticed that one of the capacitor had cracked open due to some reason. At first I was pretty worried about it and when I got some comments on it’s pic  that I upload on Facebook, I was then pretty relaxed to hear that it won’t cause any major damage. But still everyone recommends me to get it replaced.

To conclude, I finally removed lot of dust from my cabinet after almost an year. And everything is now running fine at the moment. Temperature read of CPU fell from 45C to 35C and GPU’s from 60 to 50C. So the 10degC fall is pretty much okay. And as far as replacing the 6.3V Capacitor is concerned, I’m looking out for a good guy to do it for me :p

Have a ‘cool’ summer!

These plans are really worth for people who are thirsty for Internet on the move. Since this is “Mobile Office” and not “Airtel Online”, you can browse internet even on your laptop or desktop with your phone connected as a modem. These two plans are good enough for people who require internet on the move just to send and receive emails and to browse a little. And for those who want internet on their mobile phones, its more then enough to waste the bandwidth on whatever they would like to do.

Just to check, I first opted for 3 days plan, and I was really happy with the speed on the phone. But when connected to PC, it’s not enough for browsing heavy sites. For emails, its okay. And now I’ve activated the 98 bucks plan and am really happy to have affordable internet on the move once again. Hope airtel not to discontinue this plan again for heaven’s sake.

So what’s the point of this post?

Recently, on the new year day, I tweeted “M.I.A – Paper Planes (Cold Blank Remix) sucks!” and on the following day, I got a reply from Cold Blank, “you suck!”

Hahaha! So think before you say “sucks” to any music bands or companies. Hehe.

And I do know this isn’t as good as what professional designers would do, but it was just that I couldn’t resist to do it after the idea flashed in my head. Currently the wallpaper is available for download in 3 standard widescreen resolutions.

1920 x 1200 (deviantART) | 1680 x 1050 |1440 x 900 (Imageshack)

And yes, comments and suggestions are welcome.

And also, I won’t be able to blog regularly. So will put up a small section for my twitter updates, so you can get know what I’ve been upto.

Cya!