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Published on February 18, 2013 By Jafo In Personal Computing

Well...I guess it takes/took 10 days or so of over 30c weather... but after x years of almost permanent running my V8 Coolermaster fan decided to bugger off and go troppo.

It's not like it was ever an issue.....until a shutdown/reboot ...cos I never shutdown.....

But then silly old me did.

So the fan said time for a holiday and shut up shop.

I got it kick-started one time with some compressed air and a poking or three....

...but today it said 'no way, Jose,  find some other poor sucker..'  [or in this case....blower].

Fortunatement I'd had a wee chat with yrag and he'd suggested a spiffy thing made by Noctua....yes, wait for it.....

...a FAN.

So I had just received a pair of 'em just this same day....fortuitous or what?

Now....my system was still failing to boot....BIOS having a hissy-fit that the CPU fan was having 'issues' namely it was AWOL.

So....not to be outdone I unplugged the fan from the V8 and plugged in the new trendy NF-F12 and figured...hey, no sweat...I'll just plonk it on top of the V8....it can do its blowing from there.....

And the system is a happy chappy....as I type this....fan hanging half out of the case....temps on average DOWN 6c.

Who needs to fit the thing actually INTO-THE-COOLER?

System won't know itself when I put both of them in.....PROPERLY....


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on Feb 18, 2013

Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.

on Feb 18, 2013

I care, Paul.

 

I'd post my rig's specs but Kona would say they aren't good.

on Feb 18, 2013

kona0197
Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.
No, he has a great rig he built himself and is proud of it. Nothing wrong with that, and actually, some of us DO care.

on Feb 18, 2013

kona0197
Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.

Hell of an attitude for someone this community has helped/been allowed to help.

on Feb 18, 2013

Hell of an attitude for someone this community has helped/been allowed to help.

Nothing new there.

on Feb 18, 2013

And he wonders why I comment when he speaks.  Nothing new, been like that for years.

on Feb 18, 2013

kona0197
Quoting Jafo, reply 282of3 ...I doubt you'll find a laptop that has a twin GPU with 3gig of DDR5 that can push 2560x1600 ..... http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/ENGTX5903DIS3GD5/#specifications

Over compensating for a certain small body part are we?

Tim, my box has 16 GB ram, 2 EVGA GTX 650 gfx cards pushing 4 monitors@ 7400x1080 and a 32 inch HDTV, 2 X 1TB platter drives, one 256 GB SSD and a triple core CPU.

I'd put it up against your lappy anytime...hehe.

on Feb 18, 2013

kona0197
Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.

Terry, if it weren't for those of us who do upgrade our systems, you wouldn't have the rig you're posting from.

 

You should be glad we upgrade our systems and have extra parts to send you. You really take the cake sometimes......

 

 

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on Feb 18, 2013

You guys misunderstand me and my intentions. First of all I will always be grateful for this machine and the help I received. That will never change, and as always I say thank you very much. It just seems that every time there is talk about hardware Jafo comes in and says what he has in a manner that reflects an attitude of "look what I have. It's better than yours." He did it back in the Pentium 4 days as well. Now I am sure he is proud of what he build and that great. I just don't think we need to hear comments like "I doubt you'll find a laptop that has a twin GPU with 3gig of DDR5 that can push 2560x1600" or "I didn't mention the 6TB of HDD or the 256G SSD". It just comes off a bit antagonistic. Sure, many people here have rigs with better hardware than a notebook. I don't see them posting such comments unless asked to do so.

Perhaps I read those comments wrong. For that I am sorry.

Oh and WOM - People do change. You just fail to see it. 

on Feb 18, 2013

kona0197
I don't see them posting such comments unless asked to do so.

I think Paul covered that in reply #30.

No, refuting the suggestion that a Laptop could be 'better' than a desktop.

on Feb 18, 2013

actually, hank and wom have it right.

on Feb 18, 2013

kona0197
I just don't think we need to hear comments like "I doubt you'll find a laptop that has a twin GPU with 3gig of DDR5 that can push 2560x1600" or "I didn't mention the 6TB of HDD or the 256G SSD". It just comes off a bit antagonistic. Sure, many people here have rigs with better hardware than a notebook. I don't see them posting such comments unless asked to do so.

I wasn't posting for your benefit.  I rarely do.

It was in reply to 2of3 who suggested the laptop specs he posted were that good they'd hold their own with any Desktop.

They do not.

It is a statement of fact, not an ego-trip.

Laptops have always been higher-priced for the same/equivalent specs for a Desktop.  Sure, they get better than they once were...but so do Desktops.

...and yes, you read those comments wrong, so no, nothing has changed.

on Feb 18, 2013

MadDeez
actually, hank and wom have it right.

They usually do.

Wow, that is a somewhat pricey fan. $26.99 at Newegg plus shipping. I paid  $9.99 for mine with a fan speed controller, of course, it is a Rosewill, I'm on a very tight budget.  

on Feb 18, 2013

Now, I am off to shutdown this system, which still has the new fan sitting on the outside of the V8 and shall install it correctly...which requires the removal of the cooler from the MoBo...aka a system rebuild.

The laptop with that horrible Windows 8 will still be on...so if all goes pear-shaped I won't be totally lost....

on Feb 18, 2013


Quoting kona0197, reply 31Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.


Hell of an attitude for someone this community has helped/been allowed to help.
Hankers

Quoting Jafo, reply 34Hell of an attitude for someone this community has helped/been allowed to help.

Nothing new there.
And he wonders why I comment when he speaks.  Nothing new, been like that for years.

MadDeez
actually, hank and wom have it right.

Finally. 

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