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Its that time of year again.
13 March 2022 | by 
I try to keep track of the last time I cleaned my desktop PC. I would imagine most of us out there depend on PCs for most of our tasks as well as entertainment. For me, it's very important once a year to remove my desktop PC from service and give it a good cleaning and once over. In the past, I have found loose connections, inoperative cooling fans and poorly seated cards. It's very surprising the amount of dust that can build up on components. Not always do I find a surprise when I open up the sides of the PC tower but it's better to find something at an early stage as opposed to waiting for a failure. As we all know these failures happen at the most inappropriate times. This time around nothing that needed attention was noticed and I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of dust inside.....but this is all part of the yearly look-over of the PC. At my station the PC is part of my operations as I use it for logging, contesting and for integrating my radio with the PC. On top of that not to mention blog posts, reading blogs and YouTube.
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I use a home configured Intel NUC (i5) based PC, the fan hardly ever runs so the dust issue ain’t a problem. No tower, slots on the back of the monitor & runs WSJTX a treat, I built it during lockdown two years ago. Low energy consumption, I would thoroughly recommend the NUC.
Good evening Jeff, yes the NUC is nice and compact but I have to admit I really had never looked closely at one. It’s nice that they are powerful and small as well. Thanks for sharing and I am going to spend some evening tea time looking in the NUC units.
73 and have a good week.
Mike
VE9KK