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Last Sunday I had a GPU upgrade in preparations for all the new* COD FPS's clones coming out later this year. Everything went smooth like butta, got HOMEFRONT, bitchen....got back into MASS EFFECT....shit's amazing. Then outta the blue my comp shut the fuck down in the middle of an intense battle in Homefront. WTF?!?
Restart
While waiting for the boot-up I picked out some rad new tunes for Rock Band. It's amazing the amount of $$$ I've spent on songs. Man I hate DLC with a passion.
Really need to work on my keyboard chops.....
...anyways so I get it going, switch over to Mass Effect. Half hour into it, during an amazing cut scene with the Reaper Sovereign, the damn thing shuts off again. Ok, now I'm worried.
WHATS GOING ON!?!!?
After many moments "googling" all signs pointed to replacing the thermal paste on the CPU.
Took a reading of my CPU:
DATE TIME MHz C0 C1 C2 C3 LOAD%
03/19/11 20:47:30 2400.06 114 114 112 111 74.4
03/19/11 20:47:45 2400.06 115 114 112 111 72.6
03/19/11 20:48:00 2400.06 115 114 112 111 75.5
03/19/11 20:48:15 2400.06 115 114 112 112 72.7
03/19/11 20:48:30 2400.06 115 114 113 112 72.8
03/19/11 20:48:45 2400.06 115 114 113 112 72.6
03/19/11 20:49:00 2400.06 116 115 113 112 72.5
03/19/11 20:49:15 2400.06 116 115 113 112 75.2
HOLY SHIT!?!
and that's Celsius.
POWER DOWN! POWER DOWN!
Today I went to Radio Shack and picked up some Artic Silver 5.
Removed my heat-sink and to no ones surprise the old thermal compound had long dried out and was easy to scrape off.
After some man handling trying to get the heat-sink back on properly, I was ready to see some difference in temperatures.
DATE TIME MHz C0 C1 C2 C3 LOAD%
03/20/11 12:31:30 2000.05 61 61 54 52 8.2
03/20/11 14:01:15 2400.06 75 75 67 63 44.9
03/20/11 14:01:30 2400.06 77 77 68 65 60.3
03/20/11 14:01:45 2400.06 77 75 68 65 61.8
03/20/11 14:02:00 2400.06 77 77 69 65 67.9
03/20/11 14:02:15 2266.72 74 73 65 61 23.5
Ballin'!
Let's hope I haven't spoken too soon.....
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BONUS
Squirrel!
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BONUS+
Queen
04 20 2011
...I wait.
