01-13-2010, 01:17 AM
|
#21 (permalink)
|
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 233
Thanks: 71
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RandomFact314
BTW, can I just use the stock heat sink until I get a better one? I can pull it off without damage right? Plz let me know
|
Your stock heatsink will be completely fine if you aren't overclocking yet. In fact, it can probably handle low to moderate overclocking just fine.
Edit:
I haven't messed with heat sinks on that socket type yet, but generally there's just a little latch or something. Quite easy to remove.
However, installing can be harder sometimes because you want to make sure you have a (very thin) coating of thermal paste on the new heatsink when you put it on. Some heatsinks come with it pre-applied, otherwise you'll want to grab some off ebay.
Last edited by justjohn; 01-13-2010 at 01:23 AM..
|
|
|
|
 Today
|
|
|
|
Other popular topics in this forum...
|
|
|
|
|
01-13-2010, 01:18 AM
|
#22 (permalink)
|
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 233
Thanks: 71
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by vinny1989
Also, download Ubuntu, burn the ISO to a cd/dvd, set your bios to load from the cd/dvd drive and use that untill you decide on an OS?
|
I woulda said Mandriva, but to each his/her own. |
|
|
|
|
01-13-2010, 04:24 PM
|
#23 (permalink)
|
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 632
Thanks: 0
Thanked 26 Times in 24 Posts
|
I would recommend Ubuntu if you're just starting out.
__________________
If America manages to eliminate obesity, we would save as much fuel as if every American were to stop driving for three days every year. To be slender like Tiffany Yep is to be a real hypermiler...
Allie Moore and I have a combined carbon footprint much smaller than that of one average American...
|
|
|
|
|
01-14-2010, 12:21 AM
|
#24 (permalink)
|
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 233
Thanks: 71
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by NiHaoMike
I would recommend Ubuntu if you're just starting out.
|
Ubuntu holds your hand a little more during the install, but Mandriva is a breeze nowadays as well.
And on every system I've put it on it's had working wifi, 3d, sound, mp3, and flash video straight "out of the box," no driver updates or anything required. Which is more than I can say for Ubuntu. Or windows, for that matter. |
|
|
|
|
01-18-2010, 03:25 PM
|
#25 (permalink)
|
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 162
Thanks: 2
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
Hmm, i may have to try mandriva then, to compare it.
|
|
|
|
|
01-19-2010, 01:39 AM
|
#26 (permalink)
|
|
EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 233
Thanks: 71
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
That was the 2008.1 version, by the way.
I think they went to the new widget version of kde now which may be less stable.
|
|
|
|
|
01-28-2010, 02:35 PM
|
#27 (permalink)
|
|
My Goal: 35 MPG All Day
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 684
Thanks: 39
Thanked 36 Times in 25 Posts
|
So if anyone wants an update on the computer I built, its NEAR done.
Still looking for a better keyboard, want a new top fan and new side fan...
Only problem I have had with it is the top fan is actually poorly designed on the case, so it actually was knocking into the side of the case and eventually broke... *sigh* but I will just have to mod it up, I will add some pics of the computer on here in a few mins...
|
|
|
|
|
01-28-2010, 02:39 PM
|
#28 (permalink)
|
|
My Goal: 35 MPG All Day
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 684
Thanks: 39
Thanked 36 Times in 25 Posts
|
I wont bother everyone with all like 60 pictures I have of the computer but here are a few...
  n 
|
|
|
|
|
