Dust particles accumulate in ball bearings of the fan, causing fan failure. The proper functioning of the fan is essential to sink the heat generated by the PC. Dust therefore causes the processor to overheat, resulting in degraded performance, the computer shutting down automatically or worse permanent hardware failure. Frequent shut downs result in data loss and eventual hard drive failure.

Even without causing fan failure, dust accumulating in the filter may block the free flow of air and cause similar overheating issues. What is worse, dust acts as an insulator to actually build up heat.

The accumulation of dust affects the smooth functioning of all moving parts. Dust build up impedes disk drives, USB ports and other interfaces. Heavy build up of dust also makes internal interface cables and expansion slots unusable.

Dust does not spare peripherals such as keyboard or mouse. Accumulation of dust on such key devices peripherals results in keys betting struck and sticky mouse operations. This is not just frustrating but also leads to major productivity loss.

Computer dust filters help protect your business investment and against irreplaceable data loss.

Dust is a mixture of many things including skin cells, oils, organic materials, minerals, metals and chemicals. PCs are electro-mechanical devices containing many specs that are susceptible to the various ingredients that constitute dust. Some ingredients such as chemicals and metal traces may react with metals of components inside the system and cause significance performance and downtime issues.

Of the various approaches to protect the computer from dust, a computer dust filer ranks high in effectiveness. A dust filter fixed at the air intake opening of the computer’s fan or power supply blocks the dust from entering the PC chassis and thereby preempts the problems resultant from dust built up. However, the filter has to be changed or cleaned frequently. Otherwise dust will build up on the filter, blocking the passage of air and accelerate the heat up of the computer and the resultant problems.

A computer dust filter pad is an inexpensive way to protect your computer hardware.  A high precision polymer mesh works best. These mesh has extremely small filament diameters, allowing air to flow freely while still stopping dust.

Our filter packs work with our Bytebox enclosures, however the filters can be used separately with a bit of ingenuity.  One option is to stick the filter on to the computer’s chassis and another option is to undo the fan ports or power supplies from the case, fix the computer dust filter using mounting screws and screw back the fan port or power supply. Both these options make the periodic cleaning or changing filters difficult. A third option of installing either a plastic extrusion of “J” shape or a Velcro strip available at all DIY chains and hardware stores and sliding or sticking the filter on to this extrusion is easy and convenient.

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