YAY!! Mirror shine, up to 2200 grit
BOOO, took me 40 minutes to put the damn cooler on because of that @$@$%*! stupid clip design
YAY!! 7c drop on idle and 4c on load

Sm3gH3ad

In Part 2 of My Spider Adventure I will be covering some of the changes I have made so far and the good and bad of each.

Cooling:

The main issue I have with my system is cooling. I believe this is more related to the case that anything else. So I decided to add some additional fans.

I first started by ordering the following harddrive cage with a 120mm fan attached:

Cooler Master 4 in 3

I then pulled an old 80mm fan from...

BenBrown

It has been several years since I have built a new pc from scratch. Even then I typically go for the pretty cheap stuff. However this time around I have gone for something a little more....well fun.

The Spider - The Reason

The reason I went with AMD and the Spider platform is because it sounded like it would be something cool to have and it looked like it would preform great. I am not against Intel by no means but after comparing the cost at the time I gathered the...

BenBrown

So i just started golfing this year, and decided to join my schools golf team. i was pretty amazingly bad at the beginnging, but today i shot a 49 on 9 holes! although it may not be to good, i was pretty excited for finally bringing my score down a lot

W_Tillmans

This weekend, I went through a broad range of emotions. On one side, I was pretty happy because attended not one but two interesting social happenings, one of which was very well stocked up in booze and therefor very entertaining. I also was very proud of myself, because over the previous week, I had received about 5 cheques in recognition for my work on a forum I built for a small RV community, but despite all this, something happened on Sunday that totally broke all my weekend, and even continues...

max302