A vacuum cleaner set on "blow" (instead of "suck") works just fine. The air compressor produces very high pressure, it might damage something. People drive power tools using those compressors, you know..
Even if your P/S is very high power, it won't draw much power if your parts are not sucking that power. It's like an engine: if you have a BMW M5 with 500hp but you're just crawling around in Makati traffic, you will not consume much more gas than the guy with a Toyota Corolla with 105hp. Actually it's better than that because switch-mode power supplies are >90% efficient. They don't consume much power themselves. It's better to have a over-spec'ed power supply because a lot of stability issues are related to the power supply. A 400W power supply typically can only put out 100W on the 3.3V line, which is the most important line of all because the CPU is driven off that line. Recall that the 400W total power is divided among the 3.3V, 5V, and 12V lines. If your power supply puts out lots of power on the 5V and 12V lines but not enough on the 3.3V line, you will get CPU stability issues galore. On 7/18/07, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I totally agree with provided that you're not concerned with its power > consumption. .. > This I also don't know how to keep dust out of the box. But as what I > learned from Ian Sison, it is better to use an air compressor (the one > used at the vulcanizing shops to load air for your wheels) instead of a > vacuum cleaner. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
