Re: OT: To the PC buffs in here

in news:NYHfe.33576$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net, "AstraVanMan" slurred :

125C is the maximum operating temperature - above that the silicon doesn't work properly electrically, but it's not actually damaged. Most devices will tolerate 320C for at least 20secs without damage. That said, you definitely can kill stuff by ham-fisted soldering.

A better idea is to clip a bit of leg off a resistor (or similar) of a suitable length and jam it in the hole in the chip socket. When you place the Chip in the socket, the bit of metal sticking up makes contact with the base of the old pin on the CPU.

Do we really think a 2.2 Celery is worth this kind of effort?

The bearing's dry. Undo the sticker on the fan, drop some 3 in 1 in, put sticker back on...

Interested in selling the borked dell?

My 19" CRT was wonderful when new, but noticably less crisp after 5 years. The TFT I have there now (and the plasma on the DVI port) are much more crisp.

My LCD is pretty crisp but I don't think the colour is as good. That's after a lot of time spent fiddling with the settings. I am glad I payed the extra for an 8ms one though. Movies are nice and smooth.

Fraser

Your building 'em wrong them! - I've never had an athlon above 50 degrees, usually around 40.....I get similar temps with my p4's.....

XP3200+ here running at 40C according to fanbus with the CPU fan running at 2000RPM - half speed.

My old Duron 1.3 runs at a constant 63c.

My old BP6 used to run it's pair of overclocked 466's at 58c for 4 years almost constant 24/7.