Wesley's Tool-Box

The much needed revamp of the site design has finally been done! The 5-year-old design that had been around since the very beginning of the site was deemed too archaic.

The much needed revamp of the site design has finally been done! The 5-year-old design that had been around since the very beginning of the site was deemed too archaic. There has also been a name change; this site is now called 'Wesley's Tool-Box' instead of 'Wesley's Computer Hardware Zone' to reflect the change in domain name. I guess it'd be a lot easier to remember the site name now.

The people that hosted the old URL apparently went bankrupt and http://wdsoftware.lab.cc URL no longer works. Therefore, I registered a fresh new domain, http://www.tool-box.info.

It's summer already and it's getting hot here! But I just made a Miniature Air Conditioner that might just save my system from overheat! Enjoy!

• Installation and Benchmarking

Now it was time for the real test; to hook the air conditioner up to my system and observe temperature differences. System specification is as follows:

CPU:	AMD T-bird 1GHz @ 1.12GHz
M/B:	Soltek SL-75KAV (KT133A Chipset)
Heatsink:	Zalman CNPS3100-Gold
RAM:	256MB x 1 Corsair PC-150 SDRAM
Video:	LEOTEC GeForce2 MX 32MB
HDD:	IBM DeskStar 75GXP 30GB
OS:	Windows 2000 SP2
Else:	Classified ^_^

Tests were done in a stable ambient temperature environment for 40 minutes and MBM5 was used for temperature detection and logging. CPU was at 100% load during all times of the test using distributed.net client.

• Conclusions

Providing cold air to the intake fan of the system, the air conditioner should be lowering the system components overall. The result shows that it does indeed do that, as it lowered the CPU temperature by approximately 3C, which correlates to the dry run results. Although not shown here, the GF2 MX's chipset core experienced nearly identical temperature drop also. I believe the project has been a success! I think I can last this summer without much worries now.