Corsair 600T Horror Show (The missus' rig)

[BileMonkey]

So, the missus' rig had been running a bit slow so we decide to overhaul her disk setup as we suspected her 3yr old SSD was getting a bit long in the tooth and her storage HDD was running slower than it should have. So we ordered a new SSD and a couple of new Bararcudas for a simple matrix RAID setup.

The bits arrived, I opened her case, and was greeted by this:

Obviously, that wasn't great. It also seemed the case had become a proper dust vacuum, with the AIO water cooler and graphics cards each carrying their own weight in crud. I'm genuinely surprised it wasn't thermally crippled by what I found.

Anyway, some dust filters have been ordered and I've added an extra side panel fan to try and get more positive pressure into the case. I stripped, cleaned and rebuilt and now it's a fair bit happier. I also took the opportunity to overclock it a little for her as it had been running stock since it was first built.

The specs:
CPU: Intel i5 2500K @ 4GHz
CPU COOLER: Corsair H60
RAM:8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
MOBO: Asus Sabertooth P67
GPU: AMD HD6850 1GB
HDD1:OCZ Vertex 450 128GB
HDD2: Crucial C300 64 GB Caching Drive
HDD3: 2 x 1TB Seagate Barracuda in matrix RAID (1TB RAID0 and 450GB RAID1)
HDD3: 1 x 1TB Seagate Barracuda Backup
CASE: Corsair Graphite 600T
PSU: Corsair TX650

4 hours later: It looks as new again

 

[SuB]

Burn it with fire, BURN IT WITH FIRE!

 

[Lazlo]

There was a thread from a guy, who found a dead spider in his brand new case. This looks like there has been a living one in yours.

 

[SuB]

Nice tidy up though, must be said.

Did you find the thing, and did you kill it with fire?

 

[SavageCupcake]

Oh my.... It burns, burns my eyes. How did it get this bad without you noticing?? Great job tidying it up though

 

[BileMonkey]

Thanks guys, it doesn't help that this machine lives on the floor under the desk. I guess it's a good advert for having a case windows! I think the biggest issue, tho, is I hadn't opened this one up in over a year.... :S

EDIT: Couldn't kill it with fire as it did a runner when I took the side-panel off. And I quite like spiders, just not inside computers...

 

[SPS]

Mother of god.

 

[SuB]

Then as a man, you have lost points. You need to kill it with fire

 

[remember300]

Ah that was a suprise!, but well done scrubbing up hope the misses dont make ya clean the rest of the house so well lol

 

[david__001]

This is quite brilliant!

Nice clean-up by the way.

 

[BPRSM]

Wow lol I'm surprised you didn't notice this ages ago

 

[Etlar]

Damn, 4 hours of work. I can see why you needed to do that, but clean that PC faster next time

 

[SeekaX]

how in the hell can a rig be so messed up within 3 years. also the 600t has a window (a mesh in your case) iirc, so how did you not spot that earlier?
nice tidying up, don't let it get wrecked twice

 

[Rastalovich]

I know it's odd, but I'm liking that web effect.

Wonder if that stuff in a can is any good ..

 

[nexai]

Disturbing and fascinating. At least one can say the spider had a good sense about them, building a home for itself in a sweet case haha