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I’ve been spending the past few days setting up all the software on the new computer. I suppose that’s pretty expected. I ran into a couple of snags installing Gentoo x86-64, but a lot of them were as simple as typos (sadly).

I finally got around to getting back into Windows, loaded up CPU-Z to verify some of my memory settings. The BIOS doesn’t tell me what the settings actually are when it’s on ‘auto’ …so I set it manually to the memory specs of 4-4-4-12 2T DDR2 800.

It turns out that I actually was setting it slower than the ‘auto’ settings. I rebooted, clicked everything back over to ‘auto’ and woot… it auto selects 4-4-4-12 1T DDR2 800. That little 2T vs 1T makes a huge world of difference, one command per every cycle, versus one command per every two cycles. I suppose that means it’s actually twice as fast, hehe.

Those settings are at 1.85 volts!

Yay for G.SKill memory. :)

My temps are good; right now the cpu is at 29°C, but that’s with the case fans up to max. I can’t hear them when the A/C is on anyway. When the fans are on low, last night, it was about 31°C. I attempted to put the box into a slightly better location than next to my chair, but now temps are higher. It just barely fits under the side table/desk where the old box would normally sit. I knew it’d be a tight fit, but unfortunately I didn’t take into consideration that the fans would be essentially blocked. That raises the temperature by quite a few degrees. I’m not sure if it’s really a problem, because it tends to stay under 40°C, but it does concern me.

I didn’t really like the old box sitting on the side table anyway, so back it went. Right now the new box is sitting on the flooring boxes (that I still haven’t finished installing, d’oh). At least it’s out of the way for now, and the fans aren’t blocked.