45% of PC Gamer readers cleaned out their rig in the last six months and now I feel like a right grubchild for not remembering the last time I dusted mine

A poll of PC Gamer readers found that 45% had cleaned their gaming PC within the previous six months. The results suggest regular dusting is common among many readers, while a sizeable group cannot recall when they last cleaned their machine.

The poll found that 26% could not remember, 14% had not dusted their PC in over a year, and 5% had cleaned it on the day they saw the poll. Overall, 40% had gone more than a year without cleaning, while 15% had cleaned theirs within the past 12 months but not the past six. The article’s next poll asks when readers last updated their main PC’s BIOS.