Date: 27/1/2005
| My computer has gotten around to giving me the finger again. It has for some months been hanging at irregular intervals. Now long ago I had bought and installed some ultra quiet Pabst fans. The only problem was that they wouldn't flow enough air through the CPU heatsink to keep it cool when the CPU is pegged at 100% for awhile. e.g. playing a game, encoding something etc. It definately seems worse now thats it's summer and it's hot around here.
The final straw come yesterday when even while just browsing the web it would hang, 15 minutes after power on or reset.
So instead of buying the expensive toys I'd like to get, I resigned myself to buying cheap toys, like a new heatsink/fan for my ailing box. I settled on a Evercool CUD-725CA as it seemed like it had better air flow / db than the other options in the same price range (A $25). And I didn't have unlimited time to find the optimal solution so I just picked something. Seems to work ok, I'll do some proper stress testing tonight. :{
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