I thought they were those tiny graphics card memory heatsinks until I saw the second picture. Now it looks like you have the worlds tiniest graphics card
Mmm toasty
Still some nice pickups there mate!
I just spent well over an hour on my 486 after loading up TTD to test my theory (That the CPU was overheating). Couldnt put the game down and my cheapo SB16 is working flawlessly.
It turns out that 133mhz 486s work better when cooled
Just took the mounting hook thing out of a socket 7 cooler and glued it to the cpu along with a bit of paste... Its on there solid!
Was there nothing on the cpu at all?
Also love TTD (assuming you mean Transport Tycoon Deluxe ).
After seeing an old advert for Silica I remembered the software pack which came with my A500+ originally, so bought a copy on Ebay. I have no intention of actually doing anything with it but its nice to have a copy for nostalgia reasons
I had the 2.4c Northwood back in the day, awesome for overclocking, it sat it 3.3GHz fine on air cooling which was quicker than the quickest you could buy at the time (3.2)
So after the initial cleaning of these speakers I wanted to fix the smudge mark on the right speaker:
It seems the only way to remove the grille is to prise off a corner with a screwdriver then gradually level it out. You can then fix the dent you make in the grille afterwards before pushing it back into place.
It was quite dirty inside so gave them a wipe down carefully.
Then sprayed the grilles (before/after):
I only had bright white so thought I'd give it a go and see as ideally you want a sort of light grey/beige colour but didn't have any to hand. It actually turned out okay, its not as bright/mismatched as the final photo shows although a little retro brighting of the case would help a bit, not worth the time fiddling with though.
It seems the only way to remove the grille is to prise off a corner with a screwdriver then gradually level it out. You can then fix the dent you make in the grille afterwards before pushing it back into place.
It was quite dirty inside so gave them a wipe down carefully.
Then sprayed the grilles (before/after):
I only had bright white so thought I'd give it a go and see as ideally you want a sort of light grey/beige colour but didn't have any to hand. It actually turned out okay, its not as bright/mismatched as the final photo shows although a little retro brighting of the case would help a bit, not worth the time fiddling with though.
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Super Nintendo chalmers?
I did wonder
Yeah they're not great, although not as bad as those Qtec gold PSUs!