My Piece of the Inter(.)net » i7 http://mypieceoftheinter.net A place for my geekish ramblings or whatever I find interesting. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 This is why you double check things http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1958 http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1958#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:49:44 +0000 David McGrath http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1958 After months of blaming my i7 desktop computer’s tendency to overheat on it’s high performance and small size, I discover that… the CPU fan was on backwards.  fail.  It’s temps used to hover around 50°C, now they’re down to just below 40.  Recently, when transcoding a DVD with HandBrake, the temps got up to 80°C, but now with the fan reversed, and all of that dust removed, it rises to a reasonable 65°C.  Happy days!

ew

Gross!

]]> http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1958/feed 0 Lotsa windows (100) on my new compy http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1653 http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1653#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 22:17:01 +0000 David McGrath http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1653 I thought I would test out my new i7 computer, so I opened up 100 programs (which includes a virtual machine running XP) and tiled the windows with Switcher.  There are 50 programs on each monitor, vuala!

lotsa windows

p.s. I’m running the Windows 7 release candidate, and have 12GB of RAM. :-P I would have opened more programs, but I ran out of them.

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