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It is a good time to give your PC a little maintenance. I also got a new SSD drive just for games, and while I was installing that I was amazed at the amount of dust that has accumulated in the case. I had to disassemble the CPU cooler to get all the years of dust that got trapped in the heat sink.
LOL, I'm ashamed, Spencer! JK. But yeah, how did you forget such a crucial thing?
If that's your PC, you're lucky it hasn't burned up - yet.
That's pretty impressive 
Mine get lovely at times too, but I do believe you've outdone me 
I just put in a new video card and I blew everything out. I clean mine twice a year.
My beast is too big/good looking to hide on the floor...so it sits on my desk adjacent to my monitor [it weighs over 100lb]....and being elevated gets significantly less crud being sucked in...once every 2 years is sufficient...;)
Tho part of that could be the modular compartmentalized design of the case...;)
i used to use canned air to blow stuff... but stopped since i got this machine 5 years ago... as i'm afraid i might have done more harm with that on the previous machine. (maybe not leaving it to warm back up for long enough time and too impatient to wait after a spray.. also too impatient to wait for a machine to cool down between the time i turn it on in the morning and the time when i think it won't disturb the neighbours if i hoover and spray the machine)
probably irrational... but at least the current machine has a detachable filter at the front... which i guess helps a bit. oddly i only see the stringy bits (only a tiny amount) in 2 places... inside the side panel where i can put a vent/fan if i want, or inside the front door opposite the intake fan. it's a fractal r5 case.
Probably....;)
It's not 'just' the thick bits...cat hair etc that clogs the airways....it's the really fine 'house dust' [mostly flakes of your skin] that can settle over everything.....and just add humidity changes and you can have a short.
With older cases I've used...that had gauze mesh over the intake fans I'd add a sheet of toilet paper as a dust particle filter, and put up with the increased fan loading/noise.
The current Level 10 case is its own heat-sink so the fans are only on/noticable during boot. Normally the only way you know it's on is to look at the lights...;)
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