| What I've Been up to this Evening |
 What I've Been up to this Evening
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Mar. 19th, 2009 @ 11:01 pm 
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The CPU fan (not original) on the eMachine was going, so much so that no one was allowed to shut down the machine for fear it wouldn't come back up. And while the it's my server machine, it's also almost 5 years old and a Celeron to boot so I didn't want to spend a fortune for a new heat-sink.
So I looked at Newegg and picked out a few , did a few Internet searches for extra comparisons and reviews as well as shop around for better prices and I came up with this monster. The Big Typhoon CL-P0114. It was a steal for only 19.99 and free shipping and I've had good luck with refurb products before.
I had to remove my MB to install this bad boy. Not something I enjoy with a homebrew computer, much less a proprietary shitputer.
Yes that's damn near as big as my head. It looks like it belongs on a friggen Harley; not a sissy ass computer.
About half the size of my MB, it sports a 120mm fan!
And it barely fits in the poor old eMachine case. BTW I can barely hear it. Much better than the screaming 70mm ball bearing fan on the old CPU cooler.
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holy fuck is that thing huge.
That's what my wife said...
It's a virtual planetoid!
Tell me about it. I turned it on and the leading edges of the fan where experiencing relativistic effects!
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March 21st, 2009 11:36 pm (UTC) |
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Whoa! That's.. bigger than the rest of your computer.
Bigger fans are indeed quieter (slower rotation speed necessary), but really. That looks like a ceiling fan funneling down into a high school locker.
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