What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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^^ Me likey. Mind swingin' round my place and doing mine? I'll pay for the airfair, and put you up for the night (Melbourne to Rocky airfares are going cheap now, $80 one way, same for return. And I can put a mattress in the shed for you :P).
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5-Star or GTFO.
 
Just finished another 8 hrs of rewire and sleeving my PC.
Just installed the HDDs and few cable to put, then the project is finished for now.
Can't wait to fire up BF3 in max settings ^^
 
Icarus25
Today I grabbed the Photoshop CS6 beta
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Same, also dunno what happened but some of the Adobe CS4 apps, AE main keeps giving error and I spent hours trying to fix it yesterday, seems like reinstall windows is going to have to be my plan B to fix the issue. :grumpy:
But I'll be building my new system in the next ~2 weeks so I'll probably wait until I have it anyway and do without it.
 
Finished finally my PC.
After countless hours and quite some sweat since the system didn't start for two days, it's finally done.
I can only say BF3 on Ultra settings at 2560x1600 looks just stunning, and runs great thx to my triple SLI ^^
All this achieved with a "noise level" where the HDD became the most noticeable part :D:D:D
 
^^ I saw the '3', 'SSD', and 'Laptop' before everything else, I though "Whoo, RAID in Lappies now? :D

Well I finally screwed the baseplate back onto my MacBook today, after leaving it off for a few weeks so I could cool instantly whenever needed. Wish I didn't have to, but it fell off a few times and I nearly put the computer down on the bed with the plate off a few times, which wouldn't have boded well for my mainboard. Well, temps are still better overall with max temps of 88C, though I've found out that the cooling problem is not so much thermal conductivity (although I have seen an average of 20C differance because of that), but that the airflow is so restricted it's not funny. gonna look into some way of getting more airflow into the shell, may have to substitue an SD port and my 3.5mm jack port (neither of which work anyway :P).
 
What I'VE done today...

Well, I'm a little sick :(, but I'm getting better. So all I've done this morning is playing flash games and thinking about TNG. I've planned to do some Minecraft Papercrafts later on.
~ENDURANCEGUY
 
tlowr4
^^ I saw the '3', 'SSD', and 'Laptop' before everything else, I though "Whoo, RAID in Lappies now? :D

Well I finally screwed the baseplate back onto my MacBook today, after leaving it off for a few weeks so I could cool instantly whenever needed. Wish I didn't have to, but it fell off a few times and I nearly put the computer down on the bed with the plate off a few times, which wouldn't have boded well for my mainboard. Well, temps are still better overall with max temps of 88C, though I've found out that the cooling problem is not so much thermal conductivity (although I have seen an average of 20C differance because of that), but that the airflow is so restricted it's not funny. gonna look into some way of getting more airflow into the shell, may have to substitue an SD port and my 3.5mm jack port (neither of which work anyway :P).
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Why not blast some compressed air through the vents...?
 
tlowr4
^^ I saw the '3', 'SSD', and 'Laptop' before everything else, I though "Whoo, RAID in Lappies now? :D

Well I finally screwed the baseplate back onto my MacBook today, after leaving it off for a few weeks so I could cool instantly whenever needed. Wish I didn't have to, but it fell off a few times and I nearly put the computer down on the bed with the plate off a few times, which wouldn't have boded well for my mainboard. Well, temps are still better overall with max temps of 88C, though I've found out that the cooling problem is not so much thermal conductivity (although I have seen an average of 20C differance because of that), but that the airflow is so restricted it's not funny. gonna look into some way of getting more airflow into the shell, may have to substitue an SD port and my 3.5mm jack port (neither of which work anyway :P).
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Clean out the dust man, compressed air back through the outlet vents or unscrew it and blast the cooling system area with compressed air.
 
@bergauk and Grayfox Yes, yes, that's the first thing I did. Mates, I stripped the entire system apart, redid the thermal paste, clean out every nook and cranny possible. It's not dust, and thermal conductivity is fine now, it's just that the fan is restricted from being able to pull through enough air to cool the heatsink duct. It's fine up untill about 60% load, hell, it can even handle 100% CPU load, but as soon as both the GPU and CPU start working, things get very toasty very quickly.

EDIT: The other thing I suspect at full speed and full load, is that the fan isn't exhausting enough, and left over hot air is being pushed back into the gap between the bottom of the shell and the fan, and being sucked through again. Vicious cycle.
 
tlowr4
It's fine up untill about 60% load, hell, it can even handle 100% CPU load, but as soon as both the GPU and CPU start working, things get very toasty very quickly.]
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It is similar to my Asus U36SD.

It has an 2.5Ghz i7 dual core but once it hits the speedboost part and goes to 3.4Ghz it hits 90C after a few seconds.
 
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Yeah. At those temps it starts damaging the CPU.

Have you redone your thermal compound? I did on mine and saw an average of 20C reductions across the board (couldn't go past 50% usage on both GPU and CPU or it would hit boiling point).
 
It is a new laptop it is just 19mm thick and it having a small dinky fan means overheat when pushed into the redzone.
 
I just found and installed a Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HDD. I bought it 1½ years ago but never used it. :ouch:
 
tlowr4
Yeah. At those temps it starts damaging the CPU.

Have you redone your thermal compound? I did on mine and saw an average of 20C reductions across the board (couldn't go past 50% usage on both GPU and CPU or it would hit boiling point).
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Well your processor has a TJMax of 100C. It may be close but it's still in the safe boundaries.
 
Just finding out, why my PC randomly crashes is the good news, the bad news is i have to remove the Mobo again :/
I'm glad that i installed the quick connectors for the water cooling.
 
Installed Windows XP 32 Bit alongside my 64 Bit copy of Win 7. Now I can use a wireless internet adapter instead of using ICS until I get an adapter. Also filled out a job application form for Canada Computers.
 
This is what I did today:
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I finished those this morning. Pretty cool way to make use of old and dead processors. I also vacuumed the front panel of my parents computer and got rid of the dust bunnies in the computer tower cabinet. A good 10 years of dust bunnies there. :yuck:
 
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I should do that with the Engineering sample Pentium 4 I've got here. To my knowlege you can't sell them, but I can use it for myself! :sly:
 
tlowr4
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I should do that with the Engineering sample Pentium 4 I've got here. To my knowlege you can't sell them
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You don't seriously think that someone would actually want to buy a P4, do you?

If all goes well, hopefully I'll have my new machine to play with at work today - i7 2600, 16GB of RAM, 1GB RADEON HD 6450. :D
 
^^ :lol: You'd be surprised.

And isn't that bit of an overkill? Could have saved a bit of dosh on the RAM (gone with a 8GB) and gotten a better video card, a 6450 is a tad underpowered. But still, it'd be fun to play around with. What are you using it for?
 
tlowr4
^^ :lol: You'd be surprised.

And isn't that bit of an overkill? Could have saved a bit of dosh on the RAM (gone with a 8GB) and gotten a better video card, a 6450 is a tad underpowered. But still, it'd be fun to play around with. What are you using it for?
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Work.
 
Connected my tv to my pc with a new 3 meter hdmi cable, so I can work it away without seeing the cable. Updated my Nvidia driver to the latest, and now I can finally enjoy my movies without a black wire hanging between my pc and tv.
 
tlowr4
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I should do that with the Engineering sample Pentium 4 I've got here. To my knowlege you can't sell them, but I can use it for myself! :sly:
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Well seeing how they are so underpowered, it's not worth it keeping it around for your own use, so I would encourage you to rip the pins off and drill it. I personally think a dead Engineering sample is better than a working one.

korza: Could you rephrase that? I couldn't understand the sentence lol.
 
Drained the water, removed the mobo and fixed the short on the temperature sensor.
Installed Assassin's Creed Revelations :D:D:D
 
I have a PIII (Katmai) in my hands right now... I'm trying to figure out how I can get it off its board...
 

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