For the past several months, starting somewhere in and around March or April of this year, my computer started acting very strangely. It would reboot sporatically, as well as blue-screen. I installed a temperature monitor thinking it might be running hot (after I had swapped out each piece of RAM that I had installed.. with little success) but with school and Europe, and moving, I figured a regular room fan would cool the system well enough in the meantime.

 That meantime turned into 6 months of me having an open case with a ridiculously large fan blowing into it - and still I had problems.  Today I reached my breaking point. After a little research (thanks ncix.com) I decided on a Thermaltake Silent Boost and went out to rb computers in Nepean to pick one up - their last one. I installed the new one and then decided to look at the old one:

Gross! That would definitely cause temps to increase. The new one’s holding out ok so far, but its only been about half an hour, so we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.