My husband gifted me this beauty for Christmas. The air vents are on the top- how can I protect the pc while still letting my cat watch me play?
My husband gifted me this beauty for Christmas. The air vents are on the top- how can I protect the pc while still letting my cat watch me play?
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Put a raised surface above the vents for the cat to lay on that also allows air to escape. Either that or keep your cat off your pc.
Oh my… you might need to install fans on the cat 🙂 Agree with the raised surface idea.
Cats like to sit on top of PCs bcs of the heat vents. While its warm and comfy for the cat, it’s awful for the PC bcs the heat needs to be exhausted out from the case.
There’s a way around this tho. You could get yourself a [wood monitor riser](https://images.app.goo.gl/Pn3yv6Fcc4RJ1mSA8), while it is made for rising monitors, but on your case (pun intended) due to it’s relatively small dimension, you could fit it on top of your pc, allowing for the heat to vent out while warming the riser at the same time, making it a super comfy spot for your cat, with the added bonus of preventing their fur shedding into your case, clogging your fan rotors etc
There is only one vent on top, not a huge deal having your cat nuts layng on it
What a sexy looking pc
I put a playstation controller on the top of mine which seems to keep my cat off
Haha I have three cats and they all do this 🙂 so cute!
Regarding your pc, I don’t recognize the case but mine has fans at the bottom and top. If yours have fans at the bottom, start by raising the feet a bit of the ground. 2.5 cm is enough. Regarding the top fans, do you have dust filters there? If you have them already, then I don’t think you need to worry. My case (lian li lan cool 2 mesh performance) has a big filter at the top and I get no cat air stuck there. It’s important to clean and dust it frequently but other than that you’ll be fine 🙂
The front though is a completely different issue…
I built my own desk, you can protect the top of the pc for little to nothing a few screws some 2×4 peices, and some scrap wood trellis.
This is a problem you’re gonna have to take up with the bunny.
Damn that’s a really expensive cat heater
Some sort of shelf above your PC which has a gap to allow air to escape. Really though you do not want your cat shedding its hair into your PC.
You don’t, it’s the cats PC now. Maybe buy another one
The cat seems happy 😊
Merry Christmas
Just return the cat…
Like others have said just put a cat shelf with a gap above the PC so your fluffy friend can still sit up there.
Put a cucumber on top.
mouse traps work best on cats
Buy your cat a phone. Teach cat how to answer. Keep cat in different room. Call cat, tell it hey, this is the only way to hang out since your fur is going to clog the everliving fuck out of everything inside this computer case. “Meow”
Make a point to clean off the intake air filters at least once a month.
No worries, the cat absorbs the heat.
Cats don’t belong on pcs.
Everyone thinks it’s so cute until they see the damage an incontenent aging cat can do to itself and the computer after it accidentally pisses on your PSU
Get a scat matt or something.
Charred cat and cat piss mixed with burning electronics is not an easy smell to get rid of
Something Triangular that doesn’t obstruct air flow or maybe a collender
True beauty!
And I like the PC, also.
Put something uneven on the top of the pc. It should keep the cat off
You don’t need to do anything because as far as I can tell there are no fan install in the top side and all intake fans are in the front and cpu is pulling air to the back so the air will just flow from the front to the back and GPU output will make a little bit of air leaking out of the top but I don’t think anything will happen even you seal the top vent