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Home Manifesto Your Console Is Full Of Crap. Clean It Out.

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Your Console Is Full Of Crap. Clean It Out.

Posted on Wednesday, September 19 @ 13:44:29 Eastern by

This is a picture of what my Xbox 360 had in it just one layer of perforated plastic down. See all that gray stuff? It's dust. Copious amounts of dust piling up and falling all over itself to clog every possible orifice in my 360 hardware. I realized I had a problem when I began to favor my PS3 if only for the simple fact that it was QUIETER than my Xbox 360.

If you don't have the luxury of buying a new console every few years, you're probably facing the same issue I am, but you haven't dug out the screw driver or the plastic spudger. Luckily, Dust-Off's PC and Console cleaning kit made it easier on me.

You don't have to remove the shell of your 360 to use the cleaning kit, but that's what I did to ensure that I could get as much grime out of my console as possible. I stopped at the point where I'd have to go out and buy a special screw driver to keep tearing the 360 down.

Using the included cleaning swabs, I did my best to remove any hard grime resting beneath the on-off switch and A/V slots. I followed that up the main attraction: the compressed-gas duster. I started blasting my 360 and plumes of dust flew out of the machine. The compressed-gas is powerful enough to project garbage out of your machine, while it's not going to push around any of the hardware components.


While compressed-dusters are commonplace enough, Falcon's set also comes with formulated screen cleaner and a microfiber cloth. If you're not going to take your console or PC apart, piece by piece, this set will do everything you need it do. In the end, I couldn't be happier with the result. My 360 is cleaner, runs faster, and is as quiet as it was when I first brought it home from the store.

Falcon's Dust-Off Gaming Gear Cleaning Kit runs $15.99 and you can buy direct from their website.
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Comments
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
    I am afraid to open up my PS3 and mess everything up. On the other hand, I go deeper with my PC than with most women.
    0 1
  • Guernica
    Guernica
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
    I'm just here to point out the "most" in that comment. Everyone carry on.
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
    I've heard horror stories about the PS3, but none of them compare to most women.


    OK, some women. Don't hit me Keri.
    0 2
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
    It's ok we all know for a few days a month women turn into hydralisks
    0 1
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
    I used to read apart broken 360s and sell them. Its quite simple to be honest. To fix disc read error sometimes Id just disconnect the DVD drive from the mother board, dissassemble the DVD drive and wipe. A small little light bulb with alchol swab. the ps3 was little harder to open(fatboy), but not any harder than a pc.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
    I always see people offering RROD fixes and mod services on Craigslist. I assume once you've done it often enough, it gets really really easy.
    0 1
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
    Tear apart* damn iPhone auto corection
    0 1
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
    I have an honest question. Does this article exist because it is an advertisement for a sponsor or a real story? No judgement either way, just curious.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
    We were sent the product described above, but rather than tack a grade on to it, I figured I'd just write about my experience with it. I think we've talked before about issues with product reviews and how manufacturers are only going to send us the best possible product they have, making it hard to write a truly negative review. I don't have any real complaints about this Dust-Off product, but that doesn't mean we need to belay it with all the pomp and circumstance of a full-blown review.

    This is just a product review. If you're in need, this comes GR recommended. If you're not in need... then you're a much cleaner gamer than I. :P

    All said, it's not an advertisement. We had no agreement with Dust-Off aside from "sure, we'll try it out and write what we think about it," so that's exactly what I did.
    0 2
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
    Take your console outside. Spray it down with the same air compressor you would use for your impact hammer or to reinflate the tire on your car. The end.
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
    I used to do this with my dad's air compressor, but I unfortunately don't have and can't afford one myself. This little can did just fine.
    0 1
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
    You have to be careful with this, because many air compressors can accumulate condensation. So with all that air, you could just as likely be spraying your console down with water.
    0 1
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 am
    Even if I'm just using canned air, if I clean something that takes current, I give it a while before I send any juice to it. Good tip from you for folks who don't know.
    0 0
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
    Completely disassembled my 60 gb PS3. The things I saw will haunt my dreams forever.


    So much dust.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
    Yeah it's incredible. And really, I didn't take the inner casing off of my 360. I just got through the first layer of plastic casing and I'm already having nightmares. I can't imagine what the inside of my Gamecube looks like.
    0 1
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 19th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
    I made cuts in the inner casing thus allowing more air circulation, as I didn't have a larger fan to install to prevent over heating
    0 1
  • phantomasko
    phantomasko
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2012 at 7:07 am
    A QUICK TIP
    If your PS3 is really old, there's a chance that thermal paste is gonna be very hardly stuck to your components (chips and heatsink). So before disassembling the console, warm it up by playing for some time (like 60 minutes or whatever that gets it cooking). This should melt the compound enough for you to be able to take off motherboard properly.

    NOTE that i couldn't take it off and i bent it slightly, ****ing up my "sockets" (or connection points between chips and motherboard), so now i have problems on system startup - the GPU is glitching. After second startup it works perfectly, but i need to fix this as it's annoying as hell.
    0 0
  • GuerillaMatzilla
    GuerillaMatzilla
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 1:18 pm
    I've actually used a vacuum before for sucking the dust out instead. You don't want it on too high of a level though.
    0 0

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