Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Northbridge cooler














I had a Zalman ZM-NBF47, that I got last year along with other stuff, and put it on the northbridge.













The cooler needed some modification, these pads were put there to stabilize it a bit, because the original cooler has four hinges and this has only two. It still moves a bit, but I'll be careful, if of course I remember it next time I change something ;).





























The southbridge gets hotter in my case and I have another Zalman chipset cooler, but changing it meant motherboard removal, and I was NOT in the mood!

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

7950GT


I got a used XFX7950GT from eBay last week, for about half the retail price. The guy probably had the card in a badly ventilated case and was getting artifacts. I removed the heatsink and applied some AS5, just in case. It idles at 50c, loads at 75c. Since I don't game, it's perfect. Double Dual Link DVI, HDCP (maybe ;)), everything I need for present and future.






Updated Specs:
Case: Antec P180
CPU: Intel C2D E6400 @ 2,6GHZ
M/B: Asus P5B-E
RAM: 2x1GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC2-6400
GPU: XFX nVidia 7950GT
HDD: WD250JS, WD250JD, WD300JD, WD400KS, WD500AAKS,
2 external Maxtor 250
DVD-R: NEC 4550, DVD-ROM: NEC DV-5800E
PSU: Antec NeoHE 430W