Upside Down
Sunday 25th March, 2007 23:00 Comments: 0
Even though I'm male and I have brown hair, I sometimes have blonde moments. I just noticed that I accidentally fitted the CD-RW in the (temporary, as I have a Lian Li PC6070B waiting for these components) case of my P4 machine upside down!
In more successful news, the blue and pretty Zalman passive northbridge heatsink seems to be firmly attached to the northbridge thanks to some Arctic Alumina thermal adhesive. It gets pretty warm, but nothing to worry about. Unsurprising, given that the system ran fine without a heatsink on there at all after the old one broke off! That Core 2 Duo cooler is also running very well and extremely quietly on the overclocked Pentium 805D processor (2.66GHz @ 3.6GHz). Once I switch PSUs with my main machine (putting a 460W Xilence Semi Fanless PSU into my machine, I've got one in my other PC and I've never heard the 7cm fan kick in, and then moving the 480W Tagan into the P4 to make it even quieter). Somehow I'm going to end up with 3 almost-silent-but-still-quite-powerful PCs, which is why it amazes me how some people can put up with noisy computers. The final touch will be when I buy a couple of Silent Drive enclosures off a friend over the next bank holiday.
In more successful news, the blue and pretty Zalman passive northbridge heatsink seems to be firmly attached to the northbridge thanks to some Arctic Alumina thermal adhesive. It gets pretty warm, but nothing to worry about. Unsurprising, given that the system ran fine without a heatsink on there at all after the old one broke off! That Core 2 Duo cooler is also running very well and extremely quietly on the overclocked Pentium 805D processor (2.66GHz @ 3.6GHz). Once I switch PSUs with my main machine (putting a 460W Xilence Semi Fanless PSU into my machine, I've got one in my other PC and I've never heard the 7cm fan kick in, and then moving the 480W Tagan into the P4 to make it even quieter). Somehow I'm going to end up with 3 almost-silent-but-still-quite-powerful PCs, which is why it amazes me how some people can put up with noisy computers. The final touch will be when I buy a couple of Silent Drive enclosures off a friend over the next bank holiday.