Caring for your computer can be vital to maintain it's longevity.  Proper care can even reduce risk of failures, which often result in the need of physical repair.  Though "care" often implies burden, we have provided some simple tips that take only a few moments at most.

Clean the Fan Ducts

Cleaning the ducts on your computer is very important, it prevents build-up of dust and other various objects.  The most hazardous build-ups occur next to fans and heatsinks.  Heatsinks are typically ridged blocks of aluminum, often located below or next to a fan.

Allow Proper Ventilation

Maintaining proper ventillation for your computer provides multiple benefits.  Electrical components often operate with more speed and stability, while proper vetillation allows the system to maintain necessary working temperatues.  Failure to rovide proper ventillation can easily cause permamnent damage to hardware.

Save Power

Everyone stresses to turn off electrical devices to save power, but it can also help increase performance and life.  Even if you like to keep your computer on all day, you can still enable other features on your computer to help keep it running.  Just by disbaling a screen saver and setting your monitor to go to a blank screen when idle can save alot of energy and reduce heat emission, while helping sustain the life of you computer.