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Posted January 07, 2011
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Aliasalpha: Heh reminds me of my sister's computer, she was living in canberra and her computer was always overheating in the middle of winter, she brought it over and I found the reason, a giant bogong moth was stuck in the CPU fan

Building a PC is a scary challenge (So much easier than back in the old days though, think yourself lucky) but so much more satisfying when you get it running right.

Next step, get yourself a dremel and start case modding!
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prakaa: Hahahahaha how did it get inside??!?

I remember opening up the computer we had ages ago, and took to a person to get fixed. Now i know why it crashed all the times, there were no fans in it...
How old? I don't think that fans were included until round about the 486. The chips just didn't consume enough power to need a fan.
Posted January 08, 2011
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prakaa: Hahahahaha how did it get inside??!?

I remember opening up the computer we had ages ago, and took to a person to get fixed. Now i know why it crashed all the times, there were no fans in it...
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hedwards: How old? I don't think that fans were included until round about the 486. The chips just didn't consume enough power to need a fan.
2006 old, so not really old, but some of the parts were imported from a 2003 comp
Posted January 08, 2011
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Zchinque: My first one went pretty smoothly, all things considered. I mean, sure I did a bunch of mistakes...

I tried (and succeeded in) putting the hard drive backwards.
I mounted the RAM in the wrong slots
....and surely a couple of other things

But I got it all to work in a single evening, which was no less than I had expected.
my girlfriend told me i was pretty good my first time. ba-dum PSSSSSHHHHHHH
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Aliasalpha: I can only conclude it was magic, there were no large openings in the case
maybe the moth was born and grew up in the case!
Post edited January 08, 2011 by captfitz
Posted January 08, 2011
I used to buy all mine pre-made but the last 2 or 3 times I built them from parts... it was a fun experience, and honestly my PCs run a lot better now. Before I would buy cheap-ass PCs and shove high-end GPUs in them, which now I realize is pretty fucking stupid.
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