Grabbin’ Pills
Alright, now we’re making progress. After much torment from Tim (enjoy your unfinished blog), I decided to have a proper look at my PC and try to figure out what exactly was wrong with the processor. I unclipped the peg things from what I can only assume is the gigantic heatsink and tried to remove it.
Unfortunately, which ever kind soul built my machine, made the lovely gesture of threading the fan’s power cable underneath the motherboard so I couldn’t remove it completely. I did my best to remove as much dust as I could then reattached it properly, with all four pegs securely fastened in.
Booted it up and my monitor refused to turn on (this bloody Samsung has given me problems before), but after a while I managed to convince it and I saw that my PC was running a lot cooler now indeed. Core 1 is 16°C and Core 2 is apparently 36°C.. why is one core more than twice as warm? Who knows, I’m not paid to know this kind of stuff. Stupid illogical computer box.
Well anyway, as I’ve been sat here typing this, the temperature has creeped up a bit. Core 1 is now 26°C and Core 2 is 40°C and that’s fine by me. Anything less than 95°C is an improvement.
