I’ll be straight with it. I’m a smoker, I smoke inside, I have a PC that is also inside. I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years. I know about the q tip method, and the compressed air, and general methods of cleaning out gunk and junk from PC parts. But this boy is way too gunked up for a regular cleaning. So, I reckon, the easiest way to clean it is to dunk the dirtiest parts in a bath of isopropyl alcohol. I was considering acetone at first, but it’s way too strong of a solvent, and alcohol should be better at dissolving organic residues. Is this a good idea?

I hereby submit this query to the council, and await judgement.

  • village604@adultswim.fan
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    16 hours ago

    This is wild because my coworker was just telling me about his parents’ desktop that was in a house fire plus all of the water from fighting the house fire. After a week of drying off it booted up without issue.

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      16 hours ago

      That’s cool 👍

      I’d still end up cleaning it, both to avoid future corrosion, plus that soot freaking stinks!