Dirty house and pc build?

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spiralof5

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Dumb question. Seriously. I need some ideas though.

I'm building my first PC. I live in the country in a 200+ year old house with 5 cats and 2 dogs. It is unavoidably dusty with floating cat hair. My brother's house next door is much the same and I'm freelance so I don't have a clean office to use.

How dusty is too dusty? Any suggestions? I thought about asking the library if I could build the computer there.

My biggest fear is that when I apply thermal paste from heat sink to CPU. I know the heat sink already has some but I will be applying my own.

 
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Pop down to your local camping store and buy a one man tent, one of those igloo types that doesn't need to be pegged down.
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NukaB

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When you say super dusty, do you mean it's everywhere? literally?

You could do with getting rid of as much dust as possible. You don't want any on your CPU when building it, as you can't clean it off that easily.
 
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You could clean just one room. Close the door so that no cats get in, and build the PC in that room.

And after you build the PC don't forget to clean it often with compressed air. Since the house is very dusty, I would do it at least 4 times a year (every 3 months or so).
 
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spiralof5

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My house is a one room school house from the late 1700s with an upstairs , small living room, and washroom added on sometime in the late 18-early 1900s and there are no doors except to the bathroom.So unfortunately iI can't just clean one room. I've been making food and cat hair has plopped on my food out of nowhere. Not good.

Its not dirty because we are lazy either. The air quality is just inevitably country midwestern.
 
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spiralof5

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I suppose I could clean up the bathroom as it is mostly tile and already decently clean. Since it is small there might be less of a chance of errant dust and hair particles floating around. It may not be enough room though and at this point I don't feel like taking a chance in this house.

I guess the solution is to call a friend in town or something. Its sounds stupid and i already know its a dumb question but I just thought someone might have a genius solution so I didn't have to lug a switch 810 case around.
 
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Pop down to your local camping store and buy a one man tent, one of those igloo types that doesn't need to be pegged down.
 
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