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  • Re: The Decline Of Pcs

    From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 4 22:08:59 2026
    Re: Re: The Decline Of Pcs
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rob Mccart on Sun Jan 04 2026 05:39 pm

    Yes, it's different now than it was back when I first started building
    computers. Everything is smaller and a lot of parts do mutiple things
    saving more space, but I like the air flow idea too.

    Y'all need to remember to replace your thermal paste every couple of years, esp ecially in smaller cases. my mid-tower was creeping up into the 80s (celsius) w hen I wasn't doing much on my system. I swapped out the thermal paste and dropp ed the idle temp by 20 degrees. Configured CPU throttling and my idle temp is n ow in the mid-40s.

    In the early 90's my brother built a system, He was really frustrated when he called me, his computer on boot would just shut down.
    1st thing I asked him, "did you put hermal paste on the CPU", he said what is thermal paste, he went and bought some and his system booted normally afterwards.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Mon Jan 5 06:30:11 2026
    Denn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    In the early 90's my brother built a system, He was really frustrated when he called me, his computer on boot would just shut down.
    1st thing I asked him, "did you put hermal paste on the CPU", he said what is thermal paste, he went and bought some and his system booted normally afterwards.

    He had a 50/50 chance of putting it on the pin side. Glad it worked out
    for him. :)



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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 5 21:34:38 2026
    Re: Re: The Decline Of Pcs
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon Jan 05 2026 06:30 am

    In the early 90's my brother built a system, He was really
    frustrated when he called me, his computer on boot would just shut
    down. 1st thing I asked him, "did you put hermal paste on the CPU",
    he said what is thermal paste, he went and bought some and his
    system booted normally afterwards.

    He had a 50/50 chance of putting it on the pin side. Glad it worked out for him. :)

    Not really, I explained to him the thermal paste goes between the top of the CPU and the heat sink.

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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tue Jan 6 09:16:57 2026
    computers. Everything is smaller and a lot of parts do mutiple things
    > saving more space, but I like the air flow idea too.

    Y'all need to remember to replace your thermal paste every couple of years, e
    >ecially in smaller cases. my mid-tower was creeping up into the 80s (celsius)
    >hen I wasn't doing much on my system. I swapped out the thermal paste and dro
    >ed the idle temp by 20 degrees. Configured CPU throttling and my idle temp is
    >ow in the mid-40s.

    A cool CPU is a happy CPU!

    Yes, that's true. I usually have a thermal sensor monitor on my computers
    and only once have I run into that problem really, although I'm pretty
    easy on computers, very rarely doing anything stressful on them.
    Most of my software is so old that a new processor can sleep though
    running it.. B)

    At the moment the processor on this computer is at 50c and it
    is rated to be okay up to 115c.. The load with 3 programs running
    is down in the 35% range..

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