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It won't drip or ooze on it's own. The main problem is when people put too much on their CPU, and when you clamp down on the heatsink, it oozes out around the corners of the CPU, which of course, has lots of things that shouldn't get a short... Since the P4 has a heat spreader, your best bet is to put a small rice grain sized amount on the center of the heat spreader, and then clamp down the heatsink. When you boot up for the first time, assuming it's available, go to your bios' temperature monitoring section and watch the CPU temperature for a few minutes. If it's running high, shut down and start all over again (remove heatsink, clean heatsink & CPU, re-apply AS5...) I did this method with my Athlon 64, and it's running nice and cold. With my athlon XP, I put a small amount on the CPU itself, and used a spare buisness card to spread it around the CPU itself. Worked great too.

One warning about AS5. It can carry an electrical charge, so make absolutely sure that it is where it is supposed to be. It's a small risk, but it can have expensive consequences.

Oh good. My poor heart always skips beats whenever I have to replace my heatsink/fan on my old Athlon... Sooner or later... CRACK!

Yup, wipe it off with some 99% Rubbing alcohol, let the heatsink and CPU dry off, and then put a small rice sized bead onto the surface of the CPU itself. Clamp on the heatsink. Oh, and if you have one of the old Athlons, the CPU core itself is rather exposed, so be VERY careful when you re-install the heatsink.

Heh. Back to the old concept of the original Starbuck introducing himself to Baltar on Kobol as "God". That or she's the head of the final five...

Just finished watching this episode... And I'm stunned... Just stunned...

I'll take a guess: You!

And now, it'll take minutes to download an episode, and a few hours to get the entire series. I love my high speed too!

I'm using a Zalman 9500 for my CPU cooling (Socket 939 A64 3700+). As of right now, it's staying at around 25 Celcius in idle, and when I do go up to full load, it never gets any higher than 30ish. In fact, If I so choose, I can turn the fan off on the CPU, and it'll still keep the processor cool, but I don't do it that often. Edit: A word of caution. Due to the design of the 9500 it WILL slice the heck out of your fingers if you aren't careful...

First off, unplug that computer immediatley, and don't use it. When power supplies go bad, they have a habit of killing everything (in the computer) that's connected to it. This is especially true of the cheap no-name brands out there. Good powersupplies are: Antec, Seasonic, Enermax... And a few others that I can't think of right now. I'm using an Antec 650 Watt to power my rig. Does the job very nicely.

Heck, you know, I could just sell you my old ATI 9800 Pro. I've fitted an aftermarket Zalman fan on it, and thus it's very very quiet. Plus, it runs just about anything nicely. Granted, it's no where near as fast as the newer stuff out there, but it's reliable, and it doesn't require a beefy power supply.

I think it has to do with the toy's engineering. I mean, directly behind the fans are the first joint in the leg, and if they put the fans further back, it'll interfere with that joint...

A word of caution. HP may make it's own propritary (spelling?) powersupply, that goes with it's own motherboard. This means that if you stick that Seasonic or Antec in there, there's a chance that it'll either not actually be able to connect to the board, or that it'll destroy it. I know dell makes their own powersupply and mother boards, and that people who want to upgrade their dells are stuck with going to dell for parts. However, I don't know if HP just slaps their computers together from off the shelf components.

Well, it all depends on who makes the powersupply for the OEM company. But, if you've had no problems for 4 years with that brand of powersupply, then go right ahead and buy a 450 watt model. The one thing you have to watch out for is that as the powersupply ages, it won't be able to supply 450 watts anymore. I know this... because my 550 watt powersupply one day dipped below the minimum requirements for my computer, and it blew. No damage to the components, however. As for the typo... I honestly don't know.

Glad to be able to help! Emajnthis: I know how much butt the 1900s kick. I've got two of them in my computer. However, when I turn on crossfire, I get shimmering on my LCD panel. From what I've been able to gather, it's due to the fact that I'm converting the DVI output on the videocards to VGA... And I don't have a choice on it... the panel is VGA only... But the price was right: Free (LCD, not the videocards)!

Hmm... Well, Toms hardware guide recently did their videocard round up for February: Clicky! They have a few suggestions as to what to get.

Ok, dual channel: It depends on the motherboard. My father's P4 was very finicky, and he had to buy a matched pair kit, just to use dual channel. My Gigabyte Athlon motherboard, however was not, and I never had a problem with having different brands (or speeds) of RAM in the slots. 2700 vs 3200... It's not that big of a deal. The only place you're probably are going to notice it is during benchmarks. I went from 1 gig 2700 to 2 gig 3200, and aside from the capacity, I didn't notice anything different. Now as to how you can acheive dual channel mode, varies from motherboard to motherboard. With my old Gigabyte, I was able to have slots 1, 3 and 4 filled with memory, and yet still operate in dual channel mode. The Gigabyte manual also states that it can have all 4 slots filled, and still function in dual channel mode (as long as requirements are met).You'll have to consult the manual that comes with the motherboard for specifications. DIMM voltage. 1.8 sounds like it's ddr2 to me. I'm using 3200-DDR, and it's taking in 2.6 ish volts. And no, DDR2 RAM will not physically fit in DDR1 slots. But you bought the computer in 2003, with DDR ram in it, so it's possible that you're looking at the wrong page in HP, or HP has updated their information to reflect what Intel and AMD motherboards require for RAM (which is DDR2).

Nice reward for being a good citizen. It's a free Nano! Load it up with music!

Eh? Classics Grimlock has flaws? I picked him up yesterday, and he looks pretty perfect in my book. I must be missing something... Classics Mirage is pretty neat too.

I think the reason is that the missile is too heavy to go onto one of the pylons. That or it can't actually physically connect to the pylons.

The nasty problem with gravity shields is the question on how you prevent tearing your ship apart. A neat benefit of the shield is that you could trap lots of kinetic rounds in it, forming an outer skin around your ship. Of course, you might have trouble seeing out the window with millions of bullets in front of it... Personally I'd go with the Homeworld route. Lots of ablative armour. To hell with shields!

Apparently, during the first Gulf War, it was lousy. In some cases, the missile would indeed destroy the incoming shot, only to destroy the body of the missile, leaving the warhead intact. Nowadays, it's supposed to be pretty good.

Well, there is precident for auto-transformation. The Armada Optimus Prime's Trailer was able to transform on it's own. Granted, it was a very simple transformation, but it did work.

I shelved the M.C. 202 for now, as my airbrushing skills are rather lacking to do the fine paintwork needed on the camo. I picked up a Revell/Zveda (sp?) T-72 with reactive armour. Needless to say, those little bricks are a total pain in the butt (and very time consuming). Looks pretty neat so far. It's an older kit (duh), so it'll be built with all hatches closed.

New Edwards base shouldn't have all those YF-19s... There should be one YF-19, one YF-21, at least 1 VF-1, and a bunch (1 squadron or so) of VF-11Bs...