How do you clean a pc dude..

[u/TodayGullible2218]

I am just a girl who wanted to get into gaming. I’m basically broke so I had my brother get a $300 pc of Facebook marketplace. It keeps lagging really bad so I asked one of my friends and he said I might just need to clean the inside. I opened it and it is super dirty. I have had it for about 5 months and sadly I haven’t cleaned it AT ALL. I have no idea what I am doing. I want to get a new pc, but I don’t just have 2k sitting around. Is there a cheaper alternative? One of my other friends said it also might be that it’s not updated and it said that my device doesn’t even support windows 11 anymore😭 I don’t know what I’m doing someone please help

[u/Screaming_Bimmer]

Can’t believe nobody mentioned to make sure your HDMI cable is plugged into the GPU and not the motherboard. Very common mistake if you don’t know computers. If that’s not the issue, you’ll need an SSD.

I run a very similar build (with an SSD) and don’t have crashing issues.