Wyre

I see a brown fan and I want to paint it black... (song reference most will miss)

I see a brown fan and I want to paint it black... (song reference most will miss)

I treated Windows 8 exactly like Vista. I used it for a couple of weeks and went back to the previous version of Windows.
 
Anyone else here still running Windows 7?

I treated Windows 8 exactly like Vista. I used it for a couple of weeks and went back to the previous version of Windows.
 
Anyone else here still running Windows 7?

I see a brown fan and I want to paint it black... (song reference most will miss)

This is exactly what I am doing. 
 
95 - Meh
98 - Yay
ME - Meh
XP - Yay
Vista - Meh
7 - Yay
8 - Meh
9 - Yay?

I'm still running Windows 7 (and love it) and have no interest what so ever so upgrade, I'm waiting to see if Windows 9 is going to shape up to be anything worthwhile.

I see a brown fan and I want to paint it black... (song reference most will miss)

I see a brown fan and I want to paint it black... (song reference most will miss)

I have to say that I personally have seen similar. However this particular website has a much greater Helpful to BS post percentage than a lot of others. Complaining about it is not going to change anything. Ignore those that are not helpful and hit the like button for those that are truly helpful. Hope that you are able to get the answers that you are looking for.
 
~Wyre

I see a red door and I want to paint it black... Easy to spot.And with the colors they are using, I don't mind them at all. Function over form.

The way that I was shown to apply thermal paste comes from installing 400MHz RISC processors. Damn things ran so friggen hot. If the thermal paste was not spread just so... the cpu would fail. At over $2000 each - we could not afford to have failures.
 
1. Make sure the surface is very clean. Clean cloth and plenty of alcohol (rubbing not drinking ... that comes later)
2. small amount of thermal paste rubbed into the surface.
3. two strips of tape placed on either side of the processor. 1/8" or about 2mm of the tape should be on the suface of the CPU.
4. Make a line of thermal paste along one side
5. Using a straight edge spread the thermal paste across the surface of the cpu. The tape will act as a shim so that the remaining thermal paste is the same thickness as the cellophane tape.
6. remove the tape and install the heatsink.
 
This will ensure that the layer of thermal paste is not too thick and is spread evenly. 

No air bubbles in the spread method - until the piece of plastic was lifted - that will cause a lot of air bubbles. Watch again during the initial spread... no air bubbles and perfectly even.
 
You also can not argue with my temps 53ºC under full load for 12 hours running Prime. i5 3570k @ 4.6GHz inside of a Silverstone FT03 chassis.

Best way to prevent corrosion would be to ensure that all the metals are the same. Beyond that - use a really solid coolant and change it out every few months.

The way that I was shown to apply thermal paste comes from installing 400MHz RISC processors. Damn things ran so friggen hot. If the thermal paste was not spread just so... the cpu would fail. At over $2000 each - we could not afford to have failures.
 
1. Make sure the surface is very clean. Clean cloth and plenty of alcohol (rubbing not drinking ... that comes later)
2. small amount of thermal paste rubbed into the surface.
3. two strips of tape placed on either side of the processor. 1/8" or about 2mm of the tape should be on the suface of the CPU.
4. Make a line of thermal paste along one side
5. Using a straight edge spread the thermal paste across the surface of the cpu. The tape will act as a shim so that the remaining thermal paste is the same thickness as the cellophane tape.
6. remove the tape and install the heatsink.
 
This will ensure that the layer of thermal paste is not too thick and is spread evenly. 

No air bubbles in the spread method - until the piece of plastic was lifted - that will cause a lot of air bubbles. Watch again during the initial spread... no air bubbles and perfectly even.
 
You also can not argue with my temps 53ºC under full load for 12 hours running Prime. i5 3570k @ 4.6GHz inside of a Silverstone FT03 chassis.

bald....

Not exactly Dubstep... more of Electrohouse pop fusion... thing - ish
 
Not exactly a large fan of dubstep either - so enjoy!
 
http://youtu.be/M2IPU05tZ2k

This is my 24 pound Ragdoll named Nicodemus. He is a complete derp, and is lovable as all hell.
 
 

Standing in line at Software Etc. back in the 90's waiting for game releases at midnight. Those were the days.

Was a gamer long before steam, Still would have been.   Ahh.. The days of actually having to go to the local computer store to buy a oversized box with 1 CD rom / DVD in it.

sure, red is 12vdc in and black is 12vdc ground. Wire them into either 4pin molex or 3pin fan header and plug them in.

^^ this is the correct answer ^^

Yes

Vic20 with tape drive