Was just cleaning out my console and got me thinking about how the dust that gathers actually affects performance as it gathers on the outside of the device.
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It affects performance indirectly as it makes cooling a lot more inefficient. Cooling is important because computer components are designed to work at a certain temperature range, and could be damaged at very high temperatures. Heat is produced more by components working harder. So computers are designed so that if they reach a too-high temperature and can’t cool down using their fans, they’ll instead start slowing down vital components like the processor or graphics card to prevent temperatures from getting too high
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