another new cooling fan

I found and added a 5th fan to the front of my computer - a 120mm fan, the last fan my system can have, to help keep it cool. It does increase the noise level a bit, but not significantly. The motherboard temperature is already about 10C lower, and it's helped the circulation for the CPU heatsink fan lowering it about 5C. It'll help too when I upgrade my video card, as the newer cards create a lot of heat. - Steve

steveleenow: guestbook revisited

For some reason I was tempted to look through my guestbook. It's kinda sad to see that the sites of so many people who visited my site are now dead. One of the only remaining active sites is this one. The person seems to maintain an interesting blog, one I may visit more regularly in the future. It's somewhat amazing how fast a game of checkers can change. In one instant you think you are behind, and in the next, you are able to jump three men and take the lead six to three. Then you move up to a higher level, and get your ass beat. You quickly realize just how much you actually suck at Chess, but you regroup and even after losing 7 or 8 games, you learn and watch what they do, and then you become better and eventually win again.

Why are you depressed? When you’re creative you can move from moments of extreme jubilation to extreme depression, sadness, loneliness. Moments of being scared, afraid - afraid to face the world. Afraid to be judged. Afraid to listen up, to look anew. To tackle a task. You just want to slide into a protective shell, like a turtle on a beach, beached like a whale, becoming bloated in the sun and the heat that beats down through the particles of dust, debris and ozone that makes up the air.

When you’re depressed you look to fill that void, by crawling into bed, to sleep, to allow the covers to form that protective shell, to form a wall, a soft casing around you, of comfort, of trust, of emptiness where your mind can become lost in the void, in its own thoughts. In its own thoughts, in its own thoughts, in its own thoughts, in its thoughts, in its own thoughts, in its thoughts, thought, in its thought, thoughts, thought, in its own thoughts, in its thought.

- Steve

new CPU fan installed

I'd installed the motherboard monitoring software that came with my ASUS P5P800 motherboard and found that the Intel CPU heat sink wasn't keeping the CPU cool enough. The ASUS program recommends giving a warning to you if it reaches 72C, and I found that even when doing hardly anything, the range was between 68C - 80C! So I did some investigating online, and found the Artic Freezer 7 heat sink which was supposed to help keep CPU running at much cooler levels.

So I got out to NCIX on Broadway just as they were about to close today and was able to pick one up. I installed it, moved my 5 1/4 drive bay devices around as I didn't like how I had originally installed them and voila I was ready to go.

Upon reboot, the ASUS monitoring program had the CPU temperature reading at about 40C - 45C which is a much cooler running temperature.

Now, I notice I've installed my floppy disk drive wrong, the light is on steady =S

time to power down and check the cable.

- Steve