ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
RIP i7 920 gaming pc
Jan 2009 to Jan 2018
I knew you well, we shared so many good times. I kept you clean and upgraded you with decent GPUs, not top range but good enough.
I had only just got you stable with a new card and a 144hz monitor when I took you apart for a clean. How was I to know the radiator was going to leak and I didn’t notice until after I heard a popping noise. I first thought it was a cable hitting a fan as I saw nothing wrong when I put you back together, how wrong I was. I guess it wasn’t called “low cost liqiud cooling†for nothing. A simple closed loop, long before the hydro series hit the shelves, the same product rebranded to corsair.
I hope you forgive me when I take you to the tip tomorrow, I will remember you fondly my old friend. Its not the end you deserve but its sadly the best I can give you.
I wont forget that I got you up to 3.8 when your “Free†OC was only 3.6. You stood strong at that until just recently, maybe that was the start of the radiator issue. I tried to fix it with a new fan but that may have just made it worse. I almost thought it was a PSU problem but the stability at lower clocks was found to lose me just 10fps at worst.
Looking back I wont forget my first CS:S 5 man, I wont forget my first golf game hole in one (the many easy tiger woods console ones never counted), I wont forget making golf courses on you and I wont forget that day you arrived and I first started you up.
My desk is empty now, your parts are stripped and put away until I decide what to do next, a part of you will live on I promise.
Goodbye friend, goodbye.
Jan 2009 to Jan 2018
I knew you well, we shared so many good times. I kept you clean and upgraded you with decent GPUs, not top range but good enough.
I had only just got you stable with a new card and a 144hz monitor when I took you apart for a clean. How was I to know the radiator was going to leak and I didn’t notice until after I heard a popping noise. I first thought it was a cable hitting a fan as I saw nothing wrong when I put you back together, how wrong I was. I guess it wasn’t called “low cost liqiud cooling†for nothing. A simple closed loop, long before the hydro series hit the shelves, the same product rebranded to corsair.
I hope you forgive me when I take you to the tip tomorrow, I will remember you fondly my old friend. Its not the end you deserve but its sadly the best I can give you.
I wont forget that I got you up to 3.8 when your “Free†OC was only 3.6. You stood strong at that until just recently, maybe that was the start of the radiator issue. I tried to fix it with a new fan but that may have just made it worse. I almost thought it was a PSU problem but the stability at lower clocks was found to lose me just 10fps at worst.
Looking back I wont forget my first CS:S 5 man, I wont forget my first golf game hole in one (the many easy tiger woods console ones never counted), I wont forget making golf courses on you and I wont forget that day you arrived and I first started you up.
My desk is empty now, your parts are stripped and put away until I decide what to do next, a part of you will live on I promise.
Goodbye friend, goodbye.
