Cold Cathode

lemonkettaz · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:45

Can anyone tell me what they are like for heat output?

Siders77 · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:56

My Akasa ones got really hot. I think I remember that my case temp went up something like 3C when I had them in. :eek:

Yewen · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:59

They are meant to output very little heat at all, at least that is what they are meant to do.

I never use them though, not my cup of tea.

SILLY ME: http://www.yewen.co.uk/cathodes.htm

lemonkettaz · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:02

cool cheers

i want my computer to give as many bright colours as possible... be fun if im wrecked or something

Yewen · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:04

Try laser LED's and the disco ball you can get, theres some great lighting mods in the links in the sticky.

WJA96 · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:32

lemonkettaz said:
cool cheers

i want my computer to give as many bright colours as possible... be fun if im wrecked or something

I don't operate my computers when I'm wrecked (anymore).

Yewen · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:33

Go on then, tell the story!

Worst ive done is sat on a keyboard

pegasus1 · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:39

Played COD2 when very drunk and done surprisingly well but fell asleep on my chair, woke up at 3 am to the missus laughing her head off at the sight of me.

Siders77 · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:47

pegasus1 said:
Played COD2 when very drunk and done surprisingly well but fell asleep on my chair, woke up at 3 am to the missus laughing her head off at the sight of me.

Haha, I've done something like that.... Came home smashed. Went on MSN for a bit and fell asleep on webcam to someone.

gib786 · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:48

i shoved 2 x 4" blue ones into my rig yesterday, look rather nice, esp when you set em to flash to music an put some good beats on. Anyone know if its possible to get em to run off a batt? I wanna pop some into the footwells of a car

WJA96 · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:03

Yewen said:
Go on then, tell the story!

Well, I was trying to play Far Cry and it was all running a bit too slowly. I had a faster P4 in one of my other rigs and I thought I would change the chips over. No problem. Except I ripped the first heatsink off and then i think I didn't earth myself properly because the 6800GT in the original games machine also stopped working about this point. Then I forgot to plug the HSF fan in to the motherboard and the first thing I do with any motherboard is turn off the AbitEQ alarm that tells you when you do that. So that just shut down and wouldn't restart.

Total cost ~£500 and I still haven't found the Northbridge fan from the second PC. I can remember thinking I could mod the first one so it would take a bit more voltage, but after that it's all a bit hazy....

You live and learn :rolleyes:

Yewen · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:05

Ahhh!

Poor 6800gt, didnt know what was coming

Good reason not to again though!

quadboi · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:20

I took mine out due to the heat issue

WJA96 · 5 Mar 2006 at 08:55

Yewen said:
Ahhh!

Poor 6800gt, didnt know what was coming

Thinking about it, I may have plugged the 8-pin S939 connector into the 6-pin SLi connector as well (possibly with force), which may have contributed to the general demise of everything.

The incredible thing was how quickly all the mayhem happened - I reckon probably not more than 20-25 minutes in total. I guess it pays to take your time in these things.