Well before Summer classes start, I will be rebuilding my desktop and laptop, so that means I’ll be reformatting both. I bought a new computer case for my desktop, it’s a Lian Li PC P60 Armorsuit case and for me it looks awesome. Not because it has blue LEDs which I absolutely hate, but because it looks so dominating. I still have to buy a couple of stuff for it like the Lian Li CD/DVD Driver Cover Bezel, that way it still looks sleek inside even if you open the door. I’m still thinking whether I should do liquid-cooling for my desktop, air-cooling with after market parts or just leave it like that…all stock. Maybe I could push the AMD 64 X2 4200+ to 2.5GHz on a stock heat sink and fan. The inside of my case would look dull though, alas I plan on taking high-quality pictures of my case and posting it online when I get the chance.
My laptop has Fedora 9 installed and it has a problem of its own too, the NVIDIA drivers dont’ work well with the new Xorg that Fedora 9 shipped out with plus the Firefox x86_64 app doesn’t like Flash. Other than that it works fine so far…I’m pretty sure I’ll find more problems with it later on as it is after all the cutting-edge in GNU/Linux. I tried CentOS 5.1 but it’s too old for my test, it ships out with Firefox 1.5 I believe…and the only thing I liked from it is it’s an enterprise grade distribution so it is more stable or mature as some other people would like to call it compared to Fedora 9 which pretty much is a test bed for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
Anyway, I’ll try to buy some Thermal Compound tomorrow at Circuit City or Best Buy whichever has them and then redo everything in one day. I just hope everything works fine as intended…I’ll start first with everything being in stock form. Even at the time of this writing I’m still thinking whether I should even bother water-cooling my system, AM2 is old and there’s already AM2+ and even AM3 i in the future. I’d like to switch to a 775 from Intel but it looks like they soon have a new one for their upcoming CPUs. And because of that, I’m thinking whether my water-cooling blocks would still be worth it after a few years…or if they’re still worth keeping.
Only time will tell I guess, but I’m planning on keeping this AMD 64 X2 4200+ for quite some time as I don’t play the newest games anymore…I’m more into just plain good old Counter-Strike 1.6 plus a little bit of programming and web development.
Anyway if you guys are looking for me, might as well leave a message in my e-mail since I’ll be without a computer for like a couple of days and weeks if I can’t get everything to work as planned. So, wish me luck as it’s been awhile for me to tinker with computers.
Tags: AMD, Best Buy, Counter Strike, Thermal Compound
