Simple America

If you missed part two then go here. 

In the morning I took my daughter and her friend to camp. From there I went to Fry’s to pick up the Thermal lube.

Made out of silver. Cool. I though I had another monitor at home. But a search found no spares. Then I remembered my SIL took it. So I had to get this.

An HP 19″ flat screen monitor set me back $230, but why settle for less? Plus they had a nice offer at Fry’s which gave a free printer with every monitor purchase.

Once I got home it was back to work. I spread a thin even coat of the lubricant on the fan where it contacts the processing chip. I put my hand inside a plastic bag to allow me to spread it evenly.

The instructions said to put on a bit of lube the size of a grain of rice on the processor.

Then you should spread it with a clean razer or stiff paper. I had an index card that worked nicely.

Finished with a nice even coat.

Then we place the fan on top of the processor.

The motherboard had four slots that married up to the fan coupling. Twist the couplings and the fan is secured to the mother board.

Now it was good time to pop in the DIMMs.

With the two DIMMs in the computer has 2 GB RAM which should be good enough for what I aim to do.

The video card is so shy that it hides in bubble wrap.

Exposed!!! I could put this on the mother board now, but I chose to wait. As I need to determine which slot I must remove on the back of the case. Also It might be difficult to fit or scratch it up a bit. So I set it aside and got ready to put the mother board in the case. 

 

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