ozziesironman
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I just rediscovered this forum, as my windows computer crashed and i lost my stuff. grr. found out brother was watching and downloading porn, and a virus took everything down. never did build that gaming computer i was wanting to... 
new question. i bought my friends' cousins' old Powermac G5 2GHz dual core for 30 bucks, not a bad deal. but the computer was in a home where they smoke. heavily. plus it was in downtown san diego, about 4 blocks from the beach. so, as you can imagine, the interior was DISGUSTING. i cleaned it up, took the heat sink off video card cleaned it with rubbing alcohol and reapplied arctic silver. still runs super hot (59-61c at idle.. geforce 6600LE passive cooled)
but I did NOT clean the memory. its still caked in the byproduct of dust, cigarette smoke, and salt combination. how would I go about cleaning that gunk off the memory? same as the video card?
oh, and one more thing. it takes DDR2 533mhz memory, and I put an extra 4GB (2x4GB) patriot extreme memory in it which is 800MHz. seems to work fine, however I did notice that if i take the patriot memory OUT, the system seems a tad more responsive. am i hurting anything by running 800MHz memory in a 533MHz slot, or is the memory just underclocking itself? i DID notice that the memory controller runs high... say maybe 57c.
new question. i bought my friends' cousins' old Powermac G5 2GHz dual core for 30 bucks, not a bad deal. but the computer was in a home where they smoke. heavily. plus it was in downtown san diego, about 4 blocks from the beach. so, as you can imagine, the interior was DISGUSTING. i cleaned it up, took the heat sink off video card cleaned it with rubbing alcohol and reapplied arctic silver. still runs super hot (59-61c at idle.. geforce 6600LE passive cooled)
but I did NOT clean the memory. its still caked in the byproduct of dust, cigarette smoke, and salt combination. how would I go about cleaning that gunk off the memory? same as the video card?
oh, and one more thing. it takes DDR2 533mhz memory, and I put an extra 4GB (2x4GB) patriot extreme memory in it which is 800MHz. seems to work fine, however I did notice that if i take the patriot memory OUT, the system seems a tad more responsive. am i hurting anything by running 800MHz memory in a 533MHz slot, or is the memory just underclocking itself? i DID notice that the memory controller runs high... say maybe 57c.
