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Huge Heatsink

We got our new computer almost a month ago now. Before I even hooked it up I opened up the box to have a look. When I saw how huge the heatsink was, I just had to take a picture.

This think literally spans the entire width of the case. Mounted to the front side of it, which you can’t see, is a 80mm case fan that blows out into a cavity in the front of the case. The case front is flat, but there are cutouts on each side of the cavity that are about 3″x4″.

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with newer computers, and I’m sure that heatsinks have only gotten larger, but still, this seems a bit crazy.. :) (It could be worse and be water cooled I guess… :P ) In case you were curious, the CPU is a core2duo 6400.

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Too Busy

Here we are better than foursix weeks into the year already and I haven’t posted a thing. How sad. I guess I’ve been rather busy.. It’s so bad that I even started writing this two weeks ago and never got back to it until just now.

I must admit that the babies are a bigger time drain than I had originally thought. Milenka had mentioned people she knew (or knew of) who blogged and then more or less never had time to post a thing after having a kid. I always thought that was rather dumb in a way…. not that blogging should be top priority or anything, but I just can’t believe that a baby takes up quite all of one’s time. I still feel that way really, but I do see how it’s easy to get caught up spending time with them soothing or playing or otherwise caring for them. It can make it hard to get much of anything done really. Then again, I’m sure that one would be easier as well. We’ll have a singleton someday and it’ll seem simple (I hope :) ).

But to add to the baby thing, I’m back in school now too. I’m just taking two classes this semester, which I’ve fortunately been able to schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays leaving the other three days of the week free. But that means that those two days of the week are pretty much devoted to just that. Plus any time I spend on things outside of class may tend to eat into those other three (or five) anyways.

We have a badly needed new computer on it’s way just now as well. Our current one is over 5 years old now, and it wasn’t “top of the line” when I built it. This will actually be the first computer that I’ve ever bought new. My first 486 was kind of new, I guess, but not really exactly. Everything since then has been an upgrade. I started looking though and there’s just too much to upgrade this time around to make it worth my while. I’m just as well off buying something new. Plus, I don’t exactly have the time to find the exact hardware that I would want and then put it all together and everything anyways. The box we’re getting is a core2duo system (this is also my first Intel system since my 486) with 2 gigs of memory. It should do us well for years to come.

Also, I got a new job. It’s with the same company I work for and it’s actually mostly a subset of something that I used to do, so it’s kind of an old job really. It’s a “better” job at any rate. The only really different thing is that it’s on 3rd shift. It shouldn’t be too bad really though. Before the girls started sleeping through the night I was generally staying up with them until 6 or 7 in the morning and then sleeping before I went to work without too much trouble. I start that in a few weeks.

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