Detailed Tutorial for Cleaning A Gaming PC

Cleaning gaming PC is an inevitable job for gamers. Usually, normal users may need to clean their computers once a year if they don’t have pets. However, for a gamer, the dust cleaning frequency would better be twice a year, and the disk cleaning can be a regular job.

Some users might not know how to clean their gaming computers for the case installs many components. Therefore, we’ll use this tutorial to help you clean your case and do a disk cleanup with detailed steps.

Preparation for cleaning a gaming pc

First, you need to prepare some tools. Never use your vacuum, as it may produce static electricity and cause harm to your parts.

Here, we list some tools, some are optional, and you can choose some of them according to your habits.

• A can of compressed air
• An electric air duster designed with computer cleaning
• Microfiber cloth (it can be damp, but not wet)
• Cotton swabs
• Screwdrivers
• Small paintbrush (optional)
…

Then you can move the case to the garage or somewhere dry and bright. If you’re going to clean your PC in a room, you can put some old sheets down and wear a mask.

Steps of clean your gaming PC

It’s not as difficult as you thought. You can follow the steps to clean the case.

First, turn off your PC and disconnect all cables and peripheral devices, and move your PC to a flat, ventilated area.

Step 1. Open the case or the cover of your laptop with screwdrivers. If you've never opened yours before and are having difficulty, examine your computer's handbook or try searching online for information unique to your model. Now you can use the compressed air and a damp cloth to clean the cover.

Step 2. To thoroughly remove layers of dust and compacted dirt inside, please remove all components that may be readily removed so that you can clean them more completely. You can remove RAM sticks, video cards, and hard drives from most desktop computers.

Step 3. Use short bursts of compressed air to remove dust from filters and wipe remaining debris from filters using a microfiber cloth. Repeat the same steps for the fans and RAM and disk slots. Please use a pen or pencil to prevent the fans from spinning when you use air to blow the blades.

Step 4. This step is for users who want to clean motherboard. You’ll need to prepare isopropyl alcohol: Using short bursts of compressed air, remove larger clumps of dust from your motherboard and graphics card. Now dip a cotton swab in isopropyl alcohol and gently clean the surface of your motherboard and other delicate areas. Allow the motherboard to dry for a full 24 hours before replacing it on your computer.

How to clean hard drive/SSD?

After you clean the dust and dirt and install all components back as before. Now you can boot your computer and we’ll move on to clean the disk.

For gamers, how to clear the game cache on PC deeply and thoroughly is also important. All programs will generate cache files, registry files, and other junk files. Most of these files will soon be outdated and accumulated on the disk, and the system won’t automatically remove them. Thus, how to clean up disk space and remove junk files from the disk is another job you need to keep in mind.

To thoroughly dig all junk files out and securely avoid crucial files in your PC, we suggest you use the PC cleaner tool to do this for you. AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is such a tool. It’s a free disk and partition manager for all Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP users. The “PC Cleaner” function can scan your disks and system to make sure no junk files are left. After the scan, users only need to click a button, then the junk files will be removed.

Step 1. Download and open AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, and click "Free up" and "PC Cleaner" in turn.

Step 2. Click "Start Scan" in the new pop-up window to scan your computer for unwanted files.

Step 3. After starting the scan, please wait for a while until the progress bar is loaded.

Step 4. Junk files will be automatically selected, you can directly click "Clean All" to delete them. If you still have other unnecessary files, you can tick the boxes of the corresponding files.

Step 5. When you see a correct symbol displayed in the interface, you can click "Back" to leave the function.

The garbage files have been removed. If necessary, you may use "Delete Large Files" to find deeply hidden large files that are no longer needed by your operating system and delete them to clean up disk space.

To sum up

How to clear game cache on PC, how to clean PC, and how to clean up disk, all these problems can be solved in this tutorial for cleaning a gaming PC. AOMEI Partition Assistant has many helpful features. You can use this tool to move installed games from one drive/disk to another one without reinstalling, clone the disk to quickly set your new disk up, and wipe/erase a disk for reusing or selling…

What’s more, this tool also has the Server Edition for Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)2008(R2)/2003 to efficiently manage their Server PC.