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Well, turns out I'm not the only one with concerns about that fan-reversing thing from this afternoon - but not everyone is in agreement as to how bad it is. It seems that the fan connector, when reversed, will draw +5v from the RPM monitoring line. This might be ok, but it might overload the line, possibly blowing the fan header or the monitoring hardware. Thanks to FyreBlade and ViPeR-7 for their detailed explanations. To be honest, it sounds a bit risky to me and I recommend not doing it!
Manaz points out the AOpen Che Che on Akiba. This is the purple smiley-face board we saw earlier in the week. Weeeeeeird.
Heh, found some Lego Films out there, including 2001, a Lego odyssey which is funny for fans of the Kubrick/Clarke original.
From Lujan: Tarrasque and I were playing around with my Athlon 900, unlocked the multiplier, and started running it @ 9.5*104 fsb (voltage 1.8), (best I could get). I had the system up for over an hour, running prime doing the torture test, when I opened motherboard monitor, apparently my cpu was running @ 95 degrees celcius. Not believing it, I touched the heatsink with my finger, and have a nice blister now :(. Then Tarra realised that my cpu fan was NOT running (I had replaced my fop38 fan with a 80mm panaflo) the wire had bent. Amazingly enough, my cpu is still fully functional, and working :) without any problems at all. Yowch, not recommended.
There's an Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview, thanks vindaloo.
Ricoh and Pretec have launched a 640MB CompactFlash card.. wow.
Some bad news from Crash Dummy, who's watercooling adventures we've been following: I've taken the watercooling system totally offline and removed from my bedroom and relocated to the bathroom. Water managed to leak from between the hose and one of the barbs and got on my lovely Abit KT7 RAID and quite a bit of stuff attached to it. Things that got wet: 4x PCI slots (wet inside and behind), AGP slot (with a videocard featuring a lovely puddle of water on the back of it), NIC, TV tuner card, ISA slot and bios chip. Water was not distilled water. This was straight tap water. And needless to say, the computer didn't like it, shorted and hard locked. Recovery process consisted of wiping each card as i removed it and mopping up all the water. Then putting paper towel on the end of a stanley knife blade and sticking it in all the slots soking up all the water. And finally going to the lot with a hair dryer. This board has cheated death for the last time. I'm not letting this EVER happen again. Has this put me off watercooling? Yes. For how long? A week or so till i wanna watercool again. But next time i'm gonna get it right and make sure the thing never gets the chance to leak. It's totally true the old saying. Do it right the first time or pay later on. Now for me to get a decent pump, new radiator and lot's of silicon on those pipes to stop leaks. :) Sobering news and good advice. Test, test and test again!
Reviews:
Thermalright SK6 socket cooler on IANAG.
Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM on HardAvenue.
Lian-Li Mini PC-31 aluminium case on TheTechZone.
AMK TKO 2003 fulltower case on NeoSeeker.
Archos Jukebox 6000 mp3 player on FutureLooks.
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