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Post November 16th, 2010, 4:35 pm

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Am I the only one here who disassembles their systems to clean them periodically ? :scratchhead:

Nope, I do the same thing :iconthumbleft:
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Post November 16th, 2010, 4:35 pm

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Post November 16th, 2010, 8:19 pm

whew. For some reason, it seems like last time I asked that question I was all alone and people thought I was crazy for doing it. :D

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Does having the side panel of the desktop tower off for the first year and a half of ownership count?


No. Though, I do keep the side off of my main system now so I don't forget to clean it.

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So, Spoof, how has it been holding up? Any strange freezes or crashes?
Have you tried disabling the cores again and benchmarking performance both ways? :D
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Post November 16th, 2010, 8:56 pm

Haven't done any benchmarks yet, probably will get to that this weekend. I clocked it up to 3.12GHz and its running steady at 22c. For fun I went down to the hardware store and bout some vent piping and rigged up a pipe out side to run air directly to the CPU heat sink, now its running at 10-13c (Outside temp ~9c).
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Post November 17th, 2010, 4:47 am

I guess Richland is about 300 miles from the coast, but if there are days you can smell the ocean when you go outside, bringing the outside air directly into the computer is a really bad idea. Salty sea air is extremely corrosive. :)
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Post November 17th, 2010, 7:41 am

No ocean salt air around here haha, the Cascades pretty much take care of that.
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Post November 22nd, 2010, 1:53 pm

Alright so I would post some benchmarks but I can't get the computer to even display anything right now. No signal is going out to the monitor :scratchhead: Havn't messed with it to much, I think I'll just have to pull out a jump and reset the bios and see if something I did is causing it to get hung up someplace.
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Post November 22nd, 2010, 8:22 pm

Hopefully it was a software update that miffed it. :)

Is this a system you leave running constantly, or do you shut it off when you go to bed/etc ?
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Post November 23rd, 2010, 12:12 pm

Its run constant more or less. I cleared the CMOS and it started back up with out a hitch.

I'll get to those benchmarks now.
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Post November 30th, 2010, 11:45 am

I'm curious, have you still been running the system with the extra cores enabled since the CMOS reset ?
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Post November 30th, 2010, 1:17 pm

I haven't found the benchmark tools I want to use yet. I want a few different kinds. One that mainly hammers the cpu and another that hammers the ram. I have fairly cheap ram so I want to be able to test the cpu without the ram crippling the test.

I think for my CPU I may just compile a kernal.

This is what I've been looking at:

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/show ... p?t=486495
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Post December 5th, 2010, 2:30 pm

I like it =)
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