Just a quick post with the details of how I improved cooling and lowered noise in my main PC simply by moving the case fans…
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0Creating a new DIY HTPC from scratch
Pulling together a lot of previous posts here is a guide on how to build and set up a fully featured DIY HTPC from scratch…
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0Stability issues
I’ve been having some stability issues with my HTPC recently. A reinstall didn’t help so I concluded it was hardware. Removing all non essentials didn’t help either so I figured it must be CPU, memory or mobo related. Nothing is overclocked or tweaked and its all fairly recent brand name kit. I stress tested the CPU and memory without causing either to fail, but I continued to get occasional lockups and intermittent sluggish performance.
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0Don’t use too much TIM!
A quick note of warning about applying Thermal Grease / Heatsink Compound to CPU’s. Don’t use loads! Not only will it not work very effectively, if you really go overboard it can leak over the sides of the cpu and get underneath as it has in the image. This CPU (A pentium 4) was given to me as “I think its broken”.
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“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”