A great thing you can is get a board with wheels on it from your local gardening hardware store and put the pc on that.
Pc on carpet bad.
But ultimately is is completely safe to have your pc on the carpet.
Carpet can block airflow.
The big issue with carpets and static electricity is not from a static object setting on the carpet but from any form of shuffling motion across the carpet.
It s generally not a good idea to put a pc tower directly on carpet for three reasons.
According to one expert phillip tierno director of clinical microbiology and immunology nyu your carpet may contain 200 000 bacteria per square inch which would make it 4 000 times dirtier than your toilet seat.
I would only recommend this to someone who has had a traumatic experience with static damaging their computer already or they are building a rig that s either ungodly expensive or not their own.
Carpet generates a lot of static from people walking on it.
Is it bad to have your desktop pc on the floor.
Your floor almost certainly has more dust hair and other detritus on it.
They have feet so that their.
Examine the surface of the carpet for wrinkles or folds that cause the carpet to look warped or rippled.
Don t rub your socks on the carpet while you build.
Your computer would be at the most risk.
Dust intake is going to be higher.
Someone told me that putting a computer on the carpet was bad cause it can build up static electricity.
That static eventually dissipates but you don t want it.
Even just a couple inches off the floor is noticeably less.
If an installer hasn t adequately pulled and stretched the carpet over the carpet tacks the.
Right now i put my tower on a long piece of cardboard does the carpet really build up static.
Modern pc cases usually aren t completely flat on the bottom.
Your pc will suck in more dust on the floor.