Tag Archives: Temperature

Stock coolers don’t mean anything anymore

By Madhan | November 4, 2009

If you read my last post on my new computer build  you would have seen how I was complaining about high temperatures on my Radeon 4850.
Well, recently, when I was cleaning the card (of dust bunnies), I was too overzealous and I broke two of the fins on the stock cooler fan. I couldn’t do [...]

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That is one hot computer

By Madhan | December 31, 2008

No, I am not talking about looks.
My new PC build has been working well the last 5 months, handling everything I have been throwing it with ease. A few weeks back I upgraded to dual monitors and it was the first time I actually opened up my ATI Radeon’s 4850 Catalyst control panel in a [...]

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Building a new PC

By Madhan | July 31, 2008

After what seems forever, I found some time to post. Tonido is coming along, progress is being made, though what seems like an inch at a time. But that is a post for another rainy day.
Anyway, developing Tonido is a fun affair, I need to run several copies of Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, a couple [...]

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