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On Powersupplies, Thermal Paste, and Fans...

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October 8, 2003 7:01:49 PM

... anyways my powersupply died the other night on my home pc. (POS Allied 300w for a p4 2.2+2 hd+2 cd/dvd -- baby jesus wept.) So I decided to buy a good power supply this time (last one was free, couldn't refuse... well I could have but didn't.) and got myself a true 550 from antec (I like it alot). So while I'm in there, I have to take the grill off the bottom of the antec ps to get it into the computer which also involved removing the heat sink on the p4 once the ps was inside to put the grill back on... well it appears whatever crap brand of thermal paste I used was literally crap (I'll beat kevin for selling me crap thermal paste later). So I pull a bit... no go... pull some more... and pop up comes the chip and fan. Nice. The bar is still down on the cpu slot... cute. So my chip is basically glued to the cpu fan... no biggy except the cpu fan is big enough that im not going to be able to get the chip back in with it attached... (Fan blocks the bar) so i get the ol screwdriver out and pry the chip loose with a bit of work... fun fun... after it richochets off the side of the case onto the carpet and the dog tries to EAT THE FSCKING THING (BAD DOG, BAD!) and I straighten 3 pins back out with a pair of jewelry pliers... i realize I'm flat out of AS3... I look at the cpu and the bottom of the fan, both have a very rock solid hard as hell remenent of thermal paste left... At this point I've been without my primary game pc for 3 days and Im feeling a bit... impatient... I say fsck it and wipe off as much as possible with some nail polish remover, plug the chip back in the socket, attach the fan and hook it all back up. I clean the front filters (Lian Li PC60) which look like carpeting from the thickness of dust on them. Previously with the [-peep-] ass thermal paste and dirty filters, I was running around 49 deg c under load. Now with next to NOTHING between chip and heatsink/fan, I'm running 42 deg c at load. Rofl.

Moral of the story: Clean your intake fan filters occasionally, sh!tty thermal paste is a waste of time, and if you buy a powersupply with a lower grill be sure your case can accomdate it unless you feel like ripping half the stuff in yer box out and having your dog try to eat it.

Shadus

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October 8, 2003 8:35:32 PM

:lol:  We've all been there. It's funny though.

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October 8, 2003 8:44:53 PM

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We've all been there.

Um, I don't know about that... My dog has never tried to eat my CPU. (Probably because I don't even have a dog.)

I did have a power supply once that didn't fit right though. Lax tolarances forced me to pull out the pliers and bend a few things to get it in. And granted, that same PC also has a hard drive bay from another PC duct-taped into place because the bay that came with the case only held one drive and I wanted to use two. <i>And</i> that PC also has a few extra holes drilled in the front panel (as well as some supportive plastic behind the panel cut away) for an intake fan to be placed between the case and the front panel's outside edge since the case manu was mean and didn't give me any way to mount an intake fan.

But that's not really the same. It's just really weird. No animals have attempted to eat or otherwise molest my hardware. ...Unless you count the hamsters that my wife would let run around on her keyboard...

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October 8, 2003 10:45:49 PM

I don't know about animals for sure!

I have put HSF on with automotive grease though.

I once spilled an entire mug (16 0z.) on my brand new machine. When I sold it it was still sticky from the sugar left in it :lol: 

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October 8, 2003 11:07:39 PM

Wow looks like you had one heck of a day. But!!! at least your up and running again.
October 8, 2003 11:09:42 PM

Wow what a mouse job you did on that case. Did you buy a new case?
October 9, 2003 8:01:30 AM

Lol,yeah! Every 6 months I generally strip my machine down and soak it in the bath! ;D I clean it and make sure it dries properly before replacing the BIOS chips and CMOS batt. As long as you make sure the board is DRIED properly, it will work. I've found that dust is the biggest temperature attracter, and a 6 month service sorts it out just fine.
October 9, 2003 1:03:09 PM

Having owned several rodent pets, I have to ponder, aren't the droppings an issue?

Shadus
October 9, 2003 3:01:49 PM

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Wow what a mouse job you did on that case. Did you buy a new case?

Now why would I go and buy a new case when I've gone through all of that effort to make that case work? ;) 

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October 9, 2003 3:04:16 PM

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Having owned several rodent pets, I have to ponder, aren't the droppings an issue?

**ROFL** I imagine my wife would have cleaned those up. That'd be one awful way to 'dot the i' though.

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October 9, 2003 3:43:46 PM

Yah but sometimes they're small... and might slip 'tween the keys... does it rattle when you shake it? Fear if it does...

Shadus
October 9, 2003 5:19:08 PM

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Yah but sometimes they're small... and might slip 'tween the keys... does it rattle when you shake it? Fear if it does...

'Tis why I have a special cute little keyboard vacuum. (And why man invented cans of compressed dry air.)

Besides, it was mostly on her laptop that they got to run around. The keys there only have paper thin slits between them. :) 

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October 9, 2003 6:17:03 PM

Slvr, you're a stronger man than I, I can just see it now, firing the canned air and a 'pellet storm' begins...

Never personally cared for flying sh!t myself... :) 

I think my keyboard (my absolute favorite kb from ~1990 -- still works!) has enough hair personally to qualify as a species... I really need to rip it apart again and dunk it... the keys are also looking a bit rough these days... kinda grimy. I suppose I should get a new keyboard, but its so damn hard to find a good microswitch ps2 keyboard anymore for a reasonable price... and the bonus is, no windows key to knock you out of yer favorite game by accident ;) 

Shadus
October 9, 2003 7:36:52 PM

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the bonus is, no windows key to knock you out of yer favorite game by accident ;) 

I do so miss that 101 key standard. **sigh** Those were the days. Like Ctrl+Esc is all that much harder to press than the Win key. Bah. Stupid 104 key standard! They could at <i>least</i> have made those Windows keys programmable.

But it's getting worse. Now a day it's hard to find a keyboard that even has the Ins/Home/PgUp row at the correct height. Talk about annoying to hit Ctrl + Del instead of Ctrl + Ins!

And then all of these bloody keyboards with buttons for eBay and Google! What the hell do I want a button on my keyboard for eBay for? Nnnnggggg.

Damn it. Companies just shouldn't be allowed to screw around with that kind of stuff. It's just not <i>right</i>.

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