Sabterdeyz

It's coming close to 4am in the morning and I'm adding another one for phuck.

last week was a full blown OT week for me. Had to format/ghost a whole department and all it's 600+ Pc's. Next week's a registration week for new students.

finally done with our work at 12am

Installed the latest version of Ubuntu which is 8.04 LTS. Real cool interface. Reminds me of Mac OSX. Nice...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Well, that's all for now folks! Gunite for now! Muaks!

Overcome the layzee

It's a new month already and I'm updating an entry at 3am in the morning. somehow have some better idea when I'm updating at this time of the day.

What I'm gonna talk about is wonderment. "What does it mean?" you say? Don't ask me. All I can say about that word is that I'm wondering about something and It's been haunting me for quite some time now.

If you're wondering what's keeping me awake at this late hour. Meet Mr. Crackpot:

try looking past the plastic

So now, back to my WONDERMENT. This item is purely IT based. So, anyone who might know how to help out or give me some suggestions or ideas, please feel free to do so.

no more Mr. Pau

I'm currently wondering about the so called water cooled PC system would be better than the conventional air cooled system. As from my previous entry, you can see that my PC is encased in Mr. Pau. But because of some rather disturbing overheating issues I had while my pc was running in the case, I just had to move it out of the freakin box back into a conventional computer case (which I've drilled in as much hole as I can to make way for better air flow for my radiator).

WaterCooling Setup

And now that it's in the pc casing, I've installed my Water Cooling System, which consists of a custom CPU water block, a Thermaltake radiator + 120mm fan and a Nirox 2800 pump. All and all, everything installed and running through my CPU, I still can't get the desired temperature that I've heard so much of where some even come close to 20C.

the radiator

Mine somehow, remained at 40~45C during Idle but rose consistantly from 63~65C during 100% load and kept on going. I'm not sure what's the suitable temp for the CPU, but what I've read, I should try and keep it below 60~65C at load. And this is with a Water Cooled setup. So, what am I doing wrong here?

the Hidden fan

My wild guess is that because my pump is in my water tank, it kept heating up the water during pumping cycle, so, when it reaches the radiator, the water could only be cooled down to just 40~45C. Is that a good thing? Somehow feel a little uneasy.

So please, anyone, ENLIGHTEN me! tell me something I don't know or doing wrong.

P/s: I'm using a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (OverClocked to a steady 3.0GHz).