Jafo never sleeps.

It is AIDA64 it is pretty good program offers anything you want benchmarks stress tests monitoring temps- to much to name
For me its a must have. You can read more about it on the link below
AIDA64
PS my system also runs day and night ,i have to clean the dust catchers about every month and give it a compressed air cleaning like every 3 months,
the good thing is if you have good hardware you wont waste that much energy like you would with older one current processors need much less energy to run and then you can also send your pc into sleep ( save energy ) 

2of3 ...I doubt you'll find a laptop that has a twin GPU with 3gig of DDR5 that can push 2560x1600 ..... http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/ENGTX5903DIS3GD5/#specifications 

Kona...cycling electrics can do all sorts of things...including 'fretting' of blade contacts....and if it weren't for a shutdown/reboot my fan would still have been ticking along ignorant of the fact it'd been going for three and a half years.

It was stopping it that killed it...as it simply failed to restart...;)

Over compensating for a certain small body part are we?

No, refuting the suggestion that a Laptop could be 'better' than a desktop.

I didn't mention the 6TB of HDD or the 256G SSD.....or the REAL speakers not squeakers...

...or the MODEST 22" screen....

Showing off. Boasting. Having to be better than the rest of us. Yeah we get it. No one cares.

I care, Paul.

 

I'd post my rig's specs but Kona would say they aren't good.

No, he has a great rig he built himself and is proud of it. Nothing wrong with that, and actually, some of us DO care.

Hell of an attitude for someone this community has helped/been allowed to help.

Nothing new there.

And he wonders why I comment when he speaks.  Nothing new, been like that for years.

Tim, my box has 16 GB ram, 2 EVGA GTX 650 gfx cards pushing 4 monitors@ 7400x1080 and a 32 inch HDTV, 2 X 1TB platter drives, one 256 GB SSD and a triple core CPU.

I'd put it up against your lappy anytime...hehe.

Terry, if it weren't for those of us who do upgrade our systems, you wouldn't have the rig you're posting from.

 

You should be glad we upgrade our systems and have extra parts to send you. You really take the cake sometimes......

 

 

You guys misunderstand me and my intentions. First of all I will always be grateful for this machine and the help I received. That will never change, and as always I say thank you very much. It just seems that every time there is talk about hardware Jafo comes in and says what he has in a manner that reflects an attitude of "look what I have. It's better than yours." He did it back in the Pentium 4 days as well. Now I am sure he is proud of what he build and that great. I just don't think we need to hear comments like "I doubt you'll find a laptop that has a twin GPU with 3gig of DDR5 that can push 2560x1600" or "I didn't mention the 6TB of HDD or the 256G SSD". It just comes off a bit antagonistic. Sure, many people here have rigs with better hardware than a notebook. I don't see them posting such comments unless asked to do so.

Perhaps I read those comments wrong. For that I am sorry.

Oh and WOM - People do change. You just fail to see it. 

I think Paul covered that in reply #30.

actually, hank and wom have it right.

I wasn't posting for your benefit.  I rarely do.

It was in reply to 2of3 who suggested the laptop specs he posted were that good they'd hold their own with any Desktop.

They do not.

It is a statement of fact, not an ego-trip.

Laptops have always been higher-priced for the same/equivalent specs for a Desktop.  Sure, they get better than they once were...but so do Desktops.

...and yes, you read those comments wrong, so no, nothing has changed.

They usually do.

Wow, that is a somewhat pricey fan. $26.99 at Newegg plus shipping. I paid  $9.99 for mine with a fan speed controller, of course, it is a Rosewill, I'm on a very tight budget.  

Now, I am off to shutdown this system, which still has the new fan sitting on the outside of the V8 and shall install it correctly...which requires the removal of the cooler from the MoBo...aka a system rebuild.

The laptop with that horrible Windows 8 will still be on...so if all goes pear-shaped I won't be totally lost....;p

Finally. 

OK I get it. I messed up. Said things I should not have said. Offended people. Stepped on some toes.

For that, I am sorry. Forgive me, I will try harder to keep things best left unsaid to myself.

However people do in fact change, and I am trying hard to do so.

What I actually said was:

Which is true.

 

remove the mobo, paul? if i remember correctly, you need to remove the 4 screws holding the shroud on at the top and 2 lower screws. after that, the fan and shroud should come straight out. i know i replaced the fan in my V8 without removing the assembly from the motherboard.

Nope...didn't have to....the issue was when I built it I had to cut a hole in the mobo tray to access the mounting...as I couldn't mount it first and slide the whole tray in....the V8 was too big.

I now have 2 fans off the cpu header...one in the V8 and the other is the chassis rear exhaust....both the new fans.

The front is a 140 ...that'll be the next to change.

While I was at it I put in new Vantec EZ swap 4's as the older caddies had tired fans too.

The whole thing is eerily quiet ...and I haven't even got the side back on yet...;)

Any pictures of that machine Jafo?