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3base here, been busy like a B! anywho, the farther along i go with IS/IT and information management and design (IMD) the more i get to know RE *the rig*.
The farther i go, the more i know...so while i haven't been playing hard, i have been working hard!
i thought i'd start this stream for any and all of us to share the proudest (or worst) moments of TRICKING THE RIG.
For instance, i just installed two new little fans inside the casing, one a PCI card and the other a dual fan setup for cooling the hard disk. Setup was a snap, actually just a 4-pin connection to the power supply in both cases and the temperature inside the unit is at least 25% cooler (ballpark estimate). Both fans cost me $10 each at CompUSA's brick-and-mortar site here in Lexxx.
It's all nice and cool, graphics are crunchier, crispier, just got Doom 3: Resurrection of E-ville, and, wowsers, what freakin' awesome graphics. My minitower's performance is better since i've installed the fans and other than one of the little fans on the dual setup for the HD i've had no problems (one of the fans died while leaning against a ribbon cable connected to the hard disk, sounded like a mouse squeaking in terror), but two out of three ain't bad, right?
My next tweak? Just got a brand-new Hercules 450w power supply which also has two fans (however one will blow straight up into the casing, the other out the back end). My current power supply is the 250w that came with the Dell and after i tried to install my brother's hand-me-down nVid 5700 w/ 256Mb vram, my machine politely informed me that i didn't have the power to take advantage of the new card capabilities.
If you all don't hear from me sooner something bad may have happened, however, my comp class is over next Monday so you all should be seeing me on the field much more often starting next week! God, i miss playing!
Wish me luck!
The farther i go, the more i know...so while i haven't been playing hard, i have been working hard!
i thought i'd start this stream for any and all of us to share the proudest (or worst) moments of TRICKING THE RIG.
For instance, i just installed two new little fans inside the casing, one a PCI card and the other a dual fan setup for cooling the hard disk. Setup was a snap, actually just a 4-pin connection to the power supply in both cases and the temperature inside the unit is at least 25% cooler (ballpark estimate). Both fans cost me $10 each at CompUSA's brick-and-mortar site here in Lexxx.
It's all nice and cool, graphics are crunchier, crispier, just got Doom 3: Resurrection of E-ville, and, wowsers, what freakin' awesome graphics. My minitower's performance is better since i've installed the fans and other than one of the little fans on the dual setup for the HD i've had no problems (one of the fans died while leaning against a ribbon cable connected to the hard disk, sounded like a mouse squeaking in terror), but two out of three ain't bad, right?
My next tweak? Just got a brand-new Hercules 450w power supply which also has two fans (however one will blow straight up into the casing, the other out the back end). My current power supply is the 250w that came with the Dell and after i tried to install my brother's hand-me-down nVid 5700 w/ 256Mb vram, my machine politely informed me that i didn't have the power to take advantage of the new card capabilities.
If you all don't hear from me sooner something bad may have happened, however, my comp class is over next Monday so you all should be seeing me on the field much more often starting next week! God, i miss playing!
Wish me luck!
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