January 9th, 2005

New ATI Radeon 9600XT AIW video card.  whoohoo.  I added some pictures below.   

December 12th, 2004

I decided to quiet this thing down and get some better cooling.  I bought the SilentTower heat pipe from Thermaltake, but the brackets didn't work with my motherboard, so I traded it for a SilentBoost A1889 from Thermaltake.    The fan is silent and my CPU dropped 8-10 degrees down to 52 degrees idle, 54 with load.   I replaced a mirror that was removed to compensate for the CoolerMaster Cool Drive4 LCD fan controller and temperature monitor.   I replaced the tri-colour side fan with an Antec tri-colour fan.   The original fan was a 4-pin connector, I needed a 3 pin connector so I get to control the fan rpms.   I re-wired the pc, the original setup was done a little fast and there were some cable messes that I had to clean up.   Plus all these temperature sensors, additional fans, lights, and devices generate a butt load of wires.    With all these changes, the pc is still not as quiet as I wished, so today I am going to hunt the noise sources and see if I can surpress some of it.  I still have some noise dampening material from my car audio days I can use too.   Basically, I want my pc seen but not heard......

Front light	Front dark	Side	Side mirrors
New LCD fan and temp monitor	New front	New dual fan Enermax PSU	AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (Barton core)
This monster heatsink was intended, but was incompatible with motherboard...:(	heatsink that did fit (right) and the old one (left)	bottom of heatsink      www.thermaltake.com	New PSU and CPU heatsink/fan installed
DVD+-RW mirror	Inside PC	VGA temp and side fan RPM	VGA temp and side fan RPM
Inside mirrors	Inside dark	Chrome RAM heat sinks	Biohazard
Side dark	Inside dark	Entire inside is mirrored	Inside
Inside	Side	Mirrors	Inside
CPU Box	Motherboard Box	More new stuff	ATI 9600XT AIW
ATI and GF2 MX