How PC Tech Hustle blows the dust out of his gaming rig with BLOWZER, in a DIY Steam Machine build video
In a video about building a mini gaming PC for less than a Steam Machine, PC Tech Hustle takes his own dusty tower outside and uses a BLOWZER X6 on its intake fans and the heatsink fins of its graphics card.
A builder who likes his PCs small
PC Tech Hustle is a YouTube channel about budget PC builds, hardware reviews and practical building advice, filmed at a desk lit in purple and teal with a shelf of past builds behind it. The host builds with parts he already has where he can, prices out the rest and tells you where the money goes.
This episode, posted on August 4, 2026, starts with a machine he built six months earlier: a tiny gaming PC he could pack for a trip, "and it not be a laptop." Then Valve announced the Steam Machine, and he realised he had built something very close to it.
A sandwich-size PC
The rest of the video is the case for his version. Inside a JoyJom mini ITX case only slightly larger than the Steam Machine sit a Ryzen 7 APU, an ASRock B450 Fatality board with Wi-Fi for hotel rooms, a Thermalright AXP90 cooler and a PNY RTX 3060 on a riser. "It is literally a sandwich of a PC," he says, with no space left unused.
He puts his build at about $860 in current part prices, roughly $200 under the base Steam Machine without a controller, then runs both machines side by side through a run of game benchmarks, finishing at the highest resolution. His verdict is fair to Valve and still firmly on the side of building your own.
The BLOWZER segment: his own dusty tower
It runs near the start, from 1:14 to 1:56. It opens with cans of compressed air pushed out of frame. "If you're still buying cans of compressed air every few months, you're wasting money," he says, as the X6 retail box turns over on a wooden table.
Then the scene moves outdoors, to a table with a lawn and a street behind it. The machine on the table is not the tiny build but his full-size black tower, side panel off. "I'm using it here on my personal rig, which don't judge me," he says, and adds that he has let it go for way too long. The X6 lights up blue in his hand, then works across the front intake fans, along the cables and down into the heatsink fins of an EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, with a nozzle change partway through. Dust lifts off the card in the close-ups.
The segment ends with the nozzles going back into the zippered case and a studio shot of the box, the X6 and its nozzles lined up under a "click link below" banner.
Why the moment fits the video
Forty-odd seconds in a long build video is a short appearance, but it sits in the right place. A channel that argues for building your own also argues for keeping it running, and a small case with every millimetre filled is exactly where dust and heat catch up first. Taking the tower outside, panel off, before blowing out the fans and the graphics card is the habit worth copying, whether your PC is a full tower or a sandwich-size build.
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Questions readers ask
Can you clean a graphics card with a cordless air duster?
Yes. PC Tech Hustle blew dust out of the heatsink fins of an EVGA RTX 3080 Ti with the X6, side panel off and outdoors. Hold the fans still while you work.
Which mode should I use inside a PC?
The X6 has three modes, 40K, 80K and 130K RPM. Start at 40K near fans and small parts, and step up for packed dust on heatsinks and grilles.
Does the BLOWZER X6 replace cans of compressed air?
That is the point PC Tech Hustle makes. The X6 has a 4000 mAh battery that recharges over USB-C, with auto-shutoff, so there are no cans to keep buying.