I was reading an article about a game (Bioshock Infinite) when I noticed my arm... it had white hairs in it. I freaked out and ran to Sandi "Oh no! My arm hairs are turning white!" She pitied me but then straightened me out: Those aren't your hairs. Those are Cookie's hairs.
Whew! I had been playing with my dog and her hairs were all mixed in with mine.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Ha ha. The joke is on me.
So a month ago I started having problems with my [old] PC. It was overheating, specifically the graphics card. The NVidia 470 had performed flawlessly up to that point and all of a sudden, at IDLE it was running at 79 C.
I was baffled, I tried cleaning it out; I took it apart and reseated the heat sink (scraped off the old paste and applied arctic silver), etc. Nothing worked. When I played games it got up to 100 C!!
So I decided, alright, I'll install MSI Afterburner and apply a custom fan plan (basically the thing was whistling along at about 60% to 70% to keep the temps at a reasonable value). This has been a great machine and has served me well, so I wiped it clean and reinstalled Windows 7 planning to give it to my son... and wouldn't you know it: The card was idling at 41 C. It had to be some kind of driver issue? I don't know. But now the machine is running great. I am updating Windows... perhaps if it starts overheating again I can roll back the updates to determine what caused the problem.
Anyway, Isaac is getting a smoking machine. Here are the relevant specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
8 GB RAM @ 1066
NVidia 470
I think Anabelle will get the Aluminum iMac and I'll maybe sell her G5 iMac on Craigslist or something.
I was baffled, I tried cleaning it out; I took it apart and reseated the heat sink (scraped off the old paste and applied arctic silver), etc. Nothing worked. When I played games it got up to 100 C!!
So I decided, alright, I'll install MSI Afterburner and apply a custom fan plan (basically the thing was whistling along at about 60% to 70% to keep the temps at a reasonable value). This has been a great machine and has served me well, so I wiped it clean and reinstalled Windows 7 planning to give it to my son... and wouldn't you know it: The card was idling at 41 C. It had to be some kind of driver issue? I don't know. But now the machine is running great. I am updating Windows... perhaps if it starts overheating again I can roll back the updates to determine what caused the problem.
Anyway, Isaac is getting a smoking machine. Here are the relevant specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
8 GB RAM @ 1066
NVidia 470
I think Anabelle will get the Aluminum iMac and I'll maybe sell her G5 iMac on Craigslist or something.
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