ScOuT

So...I wanted to upgrade my daughter's Dell XPS 400 for a while now. I have her interested in Folding and she really likes the concept and enjoys watching our points get higher I have been running a CPU Folding client on it for a while. I also wanted to run a GPU client. I finally got the Corsair 450w PSU I ordered and a special thanks to voyagerfan99 for selling me his Asus 9600 GSO

First it's gotta run cool under full load with a slight overclock of the shaders while Folding. I took off the heatsink and WOW...good ol Asus had about a teaspoon of TIM applied.



Cleaned that up in a hurry



OCZ Freeze That's more like it!



I gave it a good cleaning and installed everything. Fired right up and did not even skip a beat. Installed the driver and GPU client. Running smooth as silk



Oh let the points roll in! Easily broke 15,000 PPD



Dell XPS 400
Intel Pentium D 840 @ 3.2GHz w/ 2 processing cores
2 x 1 GB Kingston @ 800MHz
Asus 9600 GSO
Corsair 450w
2 x Samsung 160 GB in RAID 0
Windows XP Pro

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mac550

i hate it when companies put so much thermal paste on the heatsinks, my 6800GT that i used to have was lagged in the stuff, it was everwhere. needless to say i removed it and did it properly, it ran like 10c cooler on idle and full load

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bomberboysk

My 790i had enough TIM on the SPP and MCP to use on 10 cpu's....im not kidding either.

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ScOuT

Every time I have pulled off a stock heatsink on anything (NB, SB, GPU, CPU, Mosfit...ect.) in the past 5 years...there has been at least 5 x the amount necessary

The companies need to hire a few people that only apply TIM! They are experts...8 hours a day nothing but small drops of TIM!

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Antec Neo Power 650w
eVGA 780i
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Intel Q9300
eVGA GTX260
Vista Home Premium 64bit

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ganzey

i would blow my head off if that was my job, seriously. putting one tiny drop on for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. i would proly end up just squirting the whole tube on one, lol

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voyagerfan99

Glad I could help you with your folding! It helped me fold a lot, even though I didn't overclock it

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CardboardSword

You'd think companies would be all for it. They'd save money on that kind of thing:S and their products would get better reviews for better temperatures and longer life span. Funny how the world works.

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Sheringan

Profit, profit, profit. That's what every company is thinking.

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