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My current system Specs:
Iwill XP333-R Rev2.1 using 1220bios
Windows XP Pro SP1 and DirectX9a
AMD Athlon XP1600+@1612MHz (8.5x190) w/ AGNGA Stepping
Volcano 9+ HSF and Arctic Silver
Radeon 8500LE(128MB) @300/300 built by ATI
1x512MB Corsair XMS PC3200 @2.8V
2x80GB Maxtor ATA133 DiamondMax9 (6Y080L0) Striped-Raid 0
1x60GB Seagate Barracuda IV
Asus 16x DVD Player
Samsung CDRW 40-12-40
Enermax 431 Watt PSU
RTL 8139 PCI NIC
SBLive 5.1
iCute case with 3 system fans
Here's a few pics of the system as it is:
Notice the three things that most commonly cause problems in a system:
- Ram (silver strip thing at bottom)
- CPU (brown square thing at right)
- Video Card (long greenish card thing at mid-left)
What a mess!! Well, that's what happens when you add 30 cm of power wires to your system and you don't have a full ATX case! Notice the Maxtor Hdd's at the bottom nearest my system fans. Yes, that's some dodgy workmanship (see the black fan wire earthing on the hdd screw?) -it's not like that now.
If you look closely enough you can see that I hacked the case to remove the exhaust holes near the exit fan. See the removed PCI covers by the vid card, also on the other side of vid card I installed a PCI fan. This achieves maximum airflow over the video card and out of the case. This iCute has surely suffered under my ownership {grin}