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Oh my god cpu alarms are annoying.

So all my stuff has arrived, and as usual, I'm having some fun and games. The good news is that everything fits, but only just. This is mostly the fault of my graphics card - an nvidia 6800 gt beastie - which is taking up 2 pci slots, but in reality, because of the massive intake fan, it's taking up 3 or 4.

Then there was the problem with it not booting up. Turns out I needed a second power cable, with a little square thing. Pita with an old psu, but after some removal of covers, screws and cables, I was back on track.

That was until I had the machine on for more than about 5 seconds, when the cpu alarm started screeching. So I looked at the temperature monitor: 77 degrees. Considering a decent temperature is 30-40, and anything over 50 is dangerous, this isn't a good thing. However, a short google later, and I had found out it was because of a new version of the athlon chip I was using; later ones reported the temperature differently, which can be fixed with a bios update. Of course, it would have been a good idea to turn off the cpu temperature alarm before running the update utility; internal speakers are never quiet, and with the case off, it was very annoying.

However, the temperature is now showing 38 degrees, all the fans are going round, and I've just finished reconfiguring the bios. Now to install Windows 98!

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