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pseydtonneRemember the P3 600 MHz Katmai I was fixing before I went away for a week? It's still here. The first few days of this week have involved lots of kitty wrangling. Now that I've figured out some tricks with Flynn, I had time to get that old Gateway to stay on longer than twenty minutes (which was a major improvement from ninety seconds but still nasty lame).
I got the CPU cooling assembly apart. The original heatsink paste was this lovely shade of blue and looks like it was applied by a cow's udder. I sat there scraping the schmutz carefully. I also sanded the heatsink with 600-grade paper. Of course, this also gave me the time to watch Graham Norton.
I wanted to shove a nickel between the heatsink and the cache chips (you put conductive paste on both sides of the coin and it becomes a conduit), but the clearance was too small for even a dime. I also had a different SECC2 heatsink to try, but that one had special gaps around the L2 cache chips that made the nickel too loose.
I also put on this copper northbridge heatsink with a low-profile fan. This thing is darling cute. I installed it with the sticky pad that came with it, even though I have some Zalman goo I could use.
Then I booted the pup and it liked my work. I've had memory test running for 100 minutes and the machine shows no sign of sweating. The heat is moving to the respective heatsinks fluidly. I am pleased.
This progress means I can finish the box this weekend, get it out of here and get ducats. I can also work on the more important tasks I have: getting my new micro-box set up and quieting Maggie's computer.
Yes, i realize this is completely boring compared to the other post. However, I needed to write both. Should I perhaps create a separate LJ for this geek crap?
-hmmmmm, Dante
I got the CPU cooling assembly apart. The original heatsink paste was this lovely shade of blue and looks like it was applied by a cow's udder. I sat there scraping the schmutz carefully. I also sanded the heatsink with 600-grade paper. Of course, this also gave me the time to watch Graham Norton.
I wanted to shove a nickel between the heatsink and the cache chips (you put conductive paste on both sides of the coin and it becomes a conduit), but the clearance was too small for even a dime. I also had a different SECC2 heatsink to try, but that one had special gaps around the L2 cache chips that made the nickel too loose.
I also put on this copper northbridge heatsink with a low-profile fan. This thing is darling cute. I installed it with the sticky pad that came with it, even though I have some Zalman goo I could use.
Then I booted the pup and it liked my work. I've had memory test running for 100 minutes and the machine shows no sign of sweating. The heat is moving to the respective heatsinks fluidly. I am pleased.
This progress means I can finish the box this weekend, get it out of here and get ducats. I can also work on the more important tasks I have: getting my new micro-box set up and quieting Maggie's computer.
Yes, i realize this is completely boring compared to the other post. However, I needed to write both. Should I perhaps create a separate LJ for this geek crap?
-hmmmmm, Dante
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