I'm not rich but I DO have one

and LOVe it to bits

Heres mine and yes I know the orientation of the Titan Fenrir isn't ideal but thats the only way it will fit on the MSI GD70 board (stupid design )

Don’t worry, it's a new trend set by phantombudgie (see phantombudgie pic's on previous page) ........ any which way but the right way.

I just built a new PC for my girlfriend, but this time using an Intel stock cooler... you can't mess that one up!

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oh believe me, yes you can!!!

i put mine on at the wrong angle, so the wire wouldnt reach the 4-pin wrapping around the cooler as its meant to, i think it ended up cutting over the top of the fan

Ill get some pics up when I figure out how to get the images into the text instead of using links (yes, Im a huge forum nub xD)

no pictures cronics?

use the img tags

Ok Boothy, here it is.

So ive spend a couple of hours cleaning my computer, taking out dust and rearanging cables as the computer was all messed up.


This is how it used to look like. This is an old picture from when I buildt the computer.

Manufacturer: Me:)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: Crucial Tracer Red 8190MB RAM
Hard Drive: Primary: Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 16MB 10000RPM Slave: Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Monitor: "BenQ 24" LCD G2400W TCO03 Black" 1920x1200,5ms,1
Sound Card: Høyttalere (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones: Creative Fatality1
Keyboard: Logitech G15
Mouse: Logitech G5
Mouse Surface: Steelseries 5C Limited Edition Frost Wyrm Exclusive WoW
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612)
Motherboard: Asus P5Q
Computer Case: Antec Nine Hundred

Ok, pictures uploaded to photobucket and now its here.

Opened the casing and heres what i saw.

Cables are all messy and dust everywhere.

After removing some on the stuff inside I removed the entire front and took out the harddrives. And guess what, more dust.




CPU fan was even worse.

The dust actually came right off and was still a donut when i held it in my hand.


So, after a lot of cleaning, fixing, moving and coughing, this is what I ended up with.



Its a bit better, my graphic cards not over heating anymore. Not perfect, but then again, what is perfect?

at the ring of dust - it's amazing the amount of dust that can build up in PCs...

It was actually worse than i would have thought. Filled up a pack of cigaretts, empty ofc, with dust. Well, it got clean and my graphic cards isnt at 110degrees Celcius when playing CoD4 anymore.

A while ago I got fed up of the ridiculous sound of my graphics card attempting to reduce the GPU temperature from 68C to aobut 65C and replaced it with an Accelero S2 passive heastink.



It is huge - you can see the 80mm fan place on the case underneath - (I avoided the Carpet Fail ). I tried to install a 120mm fan on the case next to it, but it won't fit. The fan is now mounted on the outside of the case, so it works, never going above 50C under load , but she ain't pretty.