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[Weedguru Higher]

Anybody here play Smallball baseball?

[Gorecore]

? Do you mean hardball instead of softball? Shit, I haven't held a baseball bat in a loooonnnngg time!

On another note, my damn computer is getting louder every week! The fans are rattling, groaning, and making all kinds of annoying sounds. I might buy a can of that compressed air to clean out the tower, but I think it's time to buy a whole new tower someday soon. I think my PC is over 8 years old now.

[Weedguru Higher]

No, the online game....

Compressed can of air did the trick for me

[SpRi7e]

compressed air or it's your motor dying on you and making a louder sound.. that's what happened with me

[Gorecore]

Heh, I popped the side panel off the tower and located the culprit. It's a fan in the bottom front of the tower that sucks air inside the case. It was CAKED in dust, so I cleaned it as best as I could by blowing on it and using a couple Q tips. Much, much quieter now!

Still, my PC is old: AMD Athlon 2500 (which I 'think' is roughly 1.7 ghz), 512 Mb ddr 2 ram, and a 140 gig hard drive. So if I chose to upgrade the processor, ram and hard drive, chances are I'd need to upgrade the motherboard, so might as well get a whole new rig. I'm thinking once Christmas is over with I'll start searching for one.

[AbbyRoad]

my bfs graphics card fan is making horrible ticking sounds.
we have yet to do anything about it, but i have theorized using compressed air to clean the sucker out.

but ultimately its joshs thing

[Weedguru_RyaNayR]

yeah, pc's need to be dusted out every once in a while. otherwise the fans clog and they start making noise like gore's, but then if you leave them too long they'll just stop working, or be too slow and the chips will burn out.

i've seen some fucked up fans in my life time. most of them are caused this way.


so clean your fans folks

[Bubbles]

ive never cleaned my fans before, i should probably do that lol

[Weedguru_Falkon]

Gore, are you going to build a new tower then?
The answer should be yes

[Certified-Nutter]

Gore, are you going to build a new tower then?
The answer should be yes

aha falkon speaks the truth, usualy much better price for the level of pc ye can build, but also saying that, i have lost more than one motherboard to the bane that is silver paste, damn do i hate that stuff, but oh wells.... essential saddly...

[Weedguru_RyaNayR]

i've never had a problem with thermal paste.... other than having it get all over my hands and it doesn't come off for days.

[Weedguru_Falkon]

I'm kinda disappointed with my macbook pro and it's thermal paste deal... For some reason, Apple couldn't consistently paste the CPU, so some books run hotter than others. Like mine, i've seen 93*c before... Thats just not good. My buddy has rarely seen over 80*c, and I regularly do when I use graphic intense programs.
It's too much a pain in the ass to take the computer apart and try to fix it though =/

[Weedguru_RyaNayR]

your CPU should never exceed 70c....

this is why i don't like laptops.

[Bubbles]

lol my ol' dell laptop melted crayons all over my desk.

it was a model known for overheating and for exploding batteries lol

[AbbyRoad]

so i was just browsing through Etsy.com a website i recently discovered and ordered some awesome jewelery from
and i came across these


i giggled a bit when i realized that they made me think about Andria :p