Recent content by solinar

To remove the old thermal compund, just wipe it off with an alcohol dampened soft cotton cloth until it is all gone. Make sure you don't leave any lint on the heatsink. Then follow this guide for whatever cpu you have.

I have a friend who is buying his first computer, and primarily wants it for gaming. MMORPGs and Fantasy type single player games is likely what he will be doing 80% of the time, maybe 19% browsing the web, and 1% or less doing other crap like media encoding. Setup 1 Dell E510 3.0 GHz P4...