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    Quote Originally Posted by MarineOne View Post
    Oh where to begin?

    First thing first .... I've been building/rebuilding computers since the early 1990's. Some of the computers I've worked on are the Zenith Z-248, Kaypro 8086/8088, ALR, AST, Packard-Bell, Banyan CNS, and of course today's mainstream stuff like Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, etc. My first custom build was a Pentium 120 MHz white box I used for playing StarCraft. I have a Zenith 300 baud modem, a Pentium 60 motherboard and chip, and a Compaq "Lunchbox" 386/16 running Windows 3.1 on an amber screen that I use as memento's from my early days in IT.

    Second, I don't like your "indirect" statement that I haven't done my research on this cooler. I already know about it because one of my hobbies is online gaming. I either create parts lists or will hands on build a system for my friends that are gamers and are members of either of the two gaming guilds that I've been a member of for almost 10 years now.

    Third, this TEC cooler turns itself on to provide additional cooling once the CPU hits 50% of it's operating temps. Intel CPU's run hot because of how they're built, which means it will always be running at 50% of its operating temp, so the Peltier will always be on because the CPU will always be running hot.
    OMG - a trip down memory lane!!! Windows 3.1 on an amber screen - 300 baud modem (although mine was a Radio Shack - which is still in one of my closets because it's an antique now) - Kaypro!!! Holy crap!!! CPM stuff!!! eight inch floppies!!! Optical drives!!! It's all coming back!!! I don't know if I have it in any of my junk piles, but at one time I was in possession of the first production memory boards - carbon rings wrapped with copper wires. I don't quite remember all of the mechanics of it, but it was revolutionary at the time!

    I forgot all about those, but it certainly brings back memories! Thanks for trip down memory lane!!!

    Dreadog - you're in the presence of the trailblazers. Take your due place in that lineage, but don't forget from whence you came...
    Last edited by ggiese; 05-24-2009 at 10:19 AM.

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