Show Us Your Rig [8]

[Layback Bear]

@ Lady Fitzgerald and anybody else to cares to know.

I just got my new soldering station and it works great. Better than I thought a soldering station ever could.

It does have more setting than I will probably ever use.
When turned on it goes to the pre set 750F in 40 seconds. Which is handy because between soldering jobs you don't have to leave it on.
The cord that goes to the heating iron is very flexible so it doesn't keep trying to wrap around your arm or knock things over.
It's quite heavy for it's size so you don't have to worry about knocking it over.
Their are around 24 different tips you can buy if you have a special need.

The more I use the Hakko FX-888D the cuter the ugly ******* gets.
I would recommend it to anybody who wants to solder with ease.


What do you think. Is it ugly or not?

 

[andrew129260]

looks great bear

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

@ Lady Fitzgerald and anybody else to cares to know.

I just got my new soldering station and it works great. Better than I thought a soldering station ever could.

It does have more setting than I will probably ever use.
When turned on it goes to the pre set 750F in 40 seconds. Which is handy because between soldering jobs you don't have to leave it on.
The cord that goes to the heating iron is very flexible so it doesn't keep trying to wrap around your arm or knock things over.
It's quite heavy for it's size so you don't have to worry about knocking it over.
Their are around 24 different tips you can buy if you have a special need.

The more I use the Hakko FX-888D the cuter the ugly ******* gets.
I would recommend it to anybody who wants to solder with ease.


What do you think. Is it ugly or not?

See, I told you it was cute!

 

[alio1300A]

My gear

My pc has a Nvidia GTX760 OC 4gb vram and AMD FX-4350 4.2 GHz OC'ed to 4.8 using a corsair H100I water cooler and a gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P motherboard with a corsair value-select 8Gb DDR3 ram and a WD 1tb velociraptor with a Bitfenix Ronin case and just so you know that is my desktop pc not my laptop

 

[Dude]

My pc has a Nvidia GTX760 OC 4gb vram and AMD FX-4350 4.2 GHz OC'ed to 4.8 using a corsair H100I water cooler and a gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P motherboard with a corsair value-select 8Gb DDR3 ram and a WD 1tb velociraptor with a Bitfenix Ronin case and just so you know that is my desktop pc not my laptop

No pic?

 

[ZaLiTH]

Zalith that is really nice cable routing you have there. Nice job.

Dang right that's a win!

Thanks.. I'm getting better at this side of things, these tiny cable ties (2.5x100mm) aren't really the easiest to work with though. I ended up using a number of the ties to temporarily hold a few cables while I tied them up at the important points. Ended up going through over 20 ties only to end up with 6 or 7 holding it all. Good thing I got a pack of a hundred then..

Btw, were you aware that the plastic base that the original HDD cages perched upon is removable? Then again, mayhap you are hiding some wires under it.

I noticed that on my 750D while I was mounting the fans, but I must admit I haven't tried removing that piece from the 600T. But you guessed correctly, I'm hiding a few extra plugs under that at the moment.. Every space has it's use, hmmm?

What do you think. Is it ugly or not?

Very interesting colour scheme. Not sure if I'd go as far as to call it cute, but if it works even half as well as you say, that's definitely no reason to complain.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

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Very interesting colour scheme. Not sure if I'd go as far as to call it cute, but if it works even half as well as you say, that's definitely no reason to complain. [/QUOTE]

Even ugly can be cute. Look at the old VW Beetles, Pugs, etc.

 

[NoN]

What do you think. Is it ugly or not?

If it does its job well no matter of the color scheme....for me looks far better than my actual iron solder point, large as a spoon!!!!

 

[ZaLiTH]

So, today I decided to do some digging and see why the CPU cooler in my AMD system has been getting so noisy the last while, the fan has been going crazy for some reason.

The problem, as it turns out, was a year's worth of dust build up..

To be honest, stripping and cleaning this CNPS9700 wasn't half as difficult as I expected, those screws are tiny.. But it came apart real easy and went back together again with hardly any trouble at all.

 

[essenbe]

You;re lucky. I hear those thing will get you.

 

[Layback Bear]

By looking at that I'm surprised that your cpu didn't heat up and shut down.
Are all you intake fans filtered.
How long has it been sense the last cleaning?

 

[NoN]

@ZaLith, looks like a hairy face ready to be shaved!!!

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Yikes that's a fair amount of build up. Suggest a quarterly inspection lighter cleaning schedule for your build. I do the same and that way it's only a small amount of dust relative to an annual where it's disassemble and reassemble time to get things proper clean.

 

[NoN]

And this is the opportunity of changing for a freshly applied thermal paste too!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

So, today I decided to do some digging and see why the CPU cooler in my AMD system has been getting so noisy the last while, the fan has been going crazy for some reason.

The problem, as it turns out, was a year's worth of dust build up..

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To be honest, stripping and cleaning this CNPS9700 wasn't half as difficult as I expected, those screws are tiny.. But it came apart real easy and went back together again with hardly any trouble at all.

 

[Layback Bear]

I'm thinking the rest of the computer needs a good cleaning.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I'm thinking the rest of the computer needs a good cleaning.

I'm thinking you're thinking correctly. I have to clean my computer two to four times a month. Every few days, I run a vacuum over the outside of the filters.

 

[ZaLiTH]

By looking at that I'm surprised that your cpu didn't heat up and shut down.
Are all you intake fans filtered.
How long has it been sense the last cleaning?

Well, it was the rising temps that made me go check it. Summer is finally starting to kick in this side of the world, it wasn't so bad through winter.. But I do definitely need a full fan filter kit for this case. Problem is finding one for the 600T that I like the look of.

And this is the opportunity of changing for a freshly applied thermal paste too!

Most definitely. Just after that I ran OCCT for an hour to let it settle a bit. Temps fluctuated by a couple degrees through the first 15min but from 20min in, each core sat pretty stable at 50 degrees for the rest of the burn in. Ambient room temp was about 28 while doing that, not too bad for a full time 4.0 OC.

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

So, today I decided to do some digging and see why the CPU cooler in my AMD system has been getting so noisy the last while, the fan has been going crazy for some reason.

The problem, as it turns out, was a year's worth of dust build up..

View attachment 339784

To be honest, stripping and cleaning this CNPS9700 wasn't half as difficult as I expected, those screws are tiny.. But it came apart real easy and went back together again with hardly any trouble at all.

I don't mean to be disrespectful or anything but for me it looks very hilarious to be a guru in computing but have that dump of dust in the computer.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I don't mean to be disrespectful or anything but for me it looks very hilarious to be a guru in computing but have that dump of dust in the computer.

No worries.. And no offence taken. A lot of it is simply lack of time to do proper maintenance, but lately I've also been paying more attention to cleaning up and fixing up the system before it goes to a new home. Knowing something and doing something, whether one has the time or not, are still two different ball games..