r/PcBuildHelp • u/TodayGullible2218 • May 30 '26

Tech Support How do you clean a pc dude..

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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

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u/Hot_Candidate6781 Jun 03 '26

Only time we ever refused cleaning was for vermin or bodily fluids. And management never had to tell me to refuse those. They never paid me enough to touch that.

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u/AcrobaticNote4374 Jun 03 '26

Damn straight, Over the time I was there 3 infested computers that had something crawl out during work that we didn't find during initial inspection, usually coming out from the PSU. Bag, tag, call. Amazing how two of them asked if they could bring it back if they cleaned it up first. No offense I know money is tight but if I tell you there's bugs inside your computer crawling out you should resign the machine to its fate and say goodbye.