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[Clunk]

I'll have a look mate, using MC or PC?

Mainly MC but has done so on FR, PC and FF

[mudnut]

Can this screen be fixed.

This is why I am having

fun, just trying to log on

let alone posting anything.

[rusty_nail]

Can this screen be fixed.

This is why I am having

fun, just trying to log on

let alone posting anything.

i hope your joking? the screen has
been cracked. you will need to replace
it, its not too hard, and will cost you
about 100-200$ depending on your
computer. its relatively easy to do,
PM me if you want more info

oh wait can you PM? if not ill put my
no here for abit

[4bye4]

Can this screen be fixed.

This is why I am having

fun, just trying to log on

let alone posting anything.

I knew we shouldn't have changed servers.

[mudnut]

Of course I'm joking.

I think this old unit

cracked it big time

(pardon the pun)

when it heard we

were gunna update

next month.

[rusty_nail]

Of course I'm joking.

I think this old unit

cracked it big time

(pardon the pun)

when it heard we

were gunna update

next month.

hahah too funny

what r u getting mate?

[mudnut]

Just Mrs mudsanes's old work

computer. It's what this old unit

was. But this time we are getting

All the Edustar software removed

so It won't have an Administrator.

That will mean I can finally install drivers

for the Arduino.

[mudski]

Not a question but computer related. I just found my old, photobucket account and was trawling through some of the pics. Back then I was madly into pc modding, making my own cases, watercooling and also sub zero cooling. Only the pc nerds will understand and appreciate this stuff I would think. I used to make a lot of cash making these rigs up and selling them.
This was my first build. A fully watercooled pc. CPU and both GPU's were cooled with water.

For some who don't know, we would overclock our pc's. So we would have a 2.5ghz cpu and make it run at say 3.2ghz or even faster. So when your doing this, things get a little hot, as the cpu would hit a wall and not go faster, so we would increase the cpu voltages. More volts equates to more speed, which equates to even more heat. At this point a fan just won't do, so the next step up is watercooling. This would bring temps to just above ambient. Then there's TEC cooling, thermo electric, or Peltier cooling with a ceramic pad which is engergized and this will make one side hot and one side cold. The cold side would go on the cpu. Next is refrigerant cooling such as the pics. You would see -10c to anywhere down to -45c. From there it goes using dry ice and then there was LN2 or Liquid nitrogen. This would see temps go down as low as -100c. I used to be a goffer for a bloke who did this stuff as a job. Yep he got paid by the big known pc parts manufacturers to literally destroy their stuff. All the cooling after water cooling required a chit load of thermal grease to be smeared all over where the cpu is located so not one bit of air would get in as if air does, you would get condensation in there and its bye bye to the cpu and or motherboard. I used to also run a circular shaped heat pad around the cpu area and also one on the backside of the motherboard. Just to help ward off teh moisture trolls.


So heres some pics, it sure does bring back memories that for sure.

This one I built used to run twin graphics cards which were both watercooled and the cpu water running at -14c give or take.

The lower section of the case which houses the compressor was made from a full tower case cut down, and another case on top to house the pc. Same top case as the first pic...



I then wanted more speed out of the pc, which meant I had to get the cpu colder. So I went to a larger 1/4hp compressor which saw around -27c when the cpu was fully underload and Windows stable while being bench tested. At idle it would sit at around -40c.
So I had to build a larger case of course. It was almost the same as a shop one you can buy, called a Vapochill.



Stick your tongue on this and you'll know about it....


This is what they look like inside pretty much. This was my first cpu chiller I had. I lost count of how many motherboard and cpu's I lost too condensation.


Ask any hardcore pc nerd about spending five, six or even seven hours a night about bench testing their pc, trying to squeeze every last bit of speed out of the cpu by overclocking it. Then once your done with that, we'd overclock the ram and then the graphic card/s, then combine the lot and enter comps to win money. Yes there was comps. I got six fastest in Aus in my category back in the day. Running an AMD Opteron 170 2ghz CPU at 3.2ghz. Back then AMD were the cpu's to have and Intel couldn't even get close to them. Then Intel released the first real quad core CPU with L1 and L2 cache levels that AMD couldn't even get near. It was pretty much curtains for AMD after that.

Thanks for reading.

[Maxhead]

WOW, was there any room to put a beer in and chill it ....lol now, there's an idea I'm sure even the computer nerds get thirsty

Pretty full on mate.

[taslucas]

Did it have mine sweeper?