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eugenesucks

eugaputor

Dec 16, 2007 18:33

we went to joanna's parents' house saturday morning to get the computer parts i ordered. i was under the idea that building a computer took a really long time. most of the time was taken by me staring at all the bits and gaining the courage to start. the actual building of the computer took a little over two hours ( Read more... )

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bastardang December 17 2007, 00:14:36 UTC

i think building a computer is a lot of fun. i wish i'd realized how important proper thermal paste contact is when i built this one though.

eugenesucks December 20 2007, 22:05:09 UTC

do you think that's what killed yours?

bastardang December 20 2007, 23:35:52 UTC

for sure. we had replaced everything but the video card, and when we replaced that and it still didn't work, we decided it was the heatsink. when i put the new one in, i realized the thermal paste had like the worst contact ever. now it works great; i'm sure that was the problem all along.

eugenesucks December 21 2007, 17:29:42 UTC

i didn't realize that you'd got it working again. go you guys!
our old computer was always pretty hot. the cpu was around 55C most the time. i've yet to get this one over 26C.

kakodi December 19 2007, 18:24:28 UTC

OMG, reading the list of parts has got me drooling. You want it overclocked? I can overclock it for you!!

All I have is the AMD Sempron 3000+ AM2, and a 7100GS Graphics Card. I have computer envy now. :P

Have fun with the new comp. ;)

eugenesucks December 20 2007, 22:10:13 UTC

haha, thanks but there's actually a utility via the motherboard that would let me overclock the cores up to (i believe) another .3ghz each. at the moment i'm not really doing anything to put much a load on it anyway so i'll probably just leave it for now.