A couple of weeks ago, hardwarecooling.com finally got around to calling me back about my order. At 3 months, I couldn’t have cared less, but I let them ship me the stuff anyway. So now I had a spare set of duct modding components. What to do.. what to do?

Time for Power Tools
What better way to start the weekend than a nice little modding project! As it turns out, my wife’s machine needed a little tweaking. Nan’s machine has virtually the same configuration as mine, but it’s all stock. The combination of the case design, power supply, and the retail AMD heatsink meant there wasn’t going to be any overclocking on this puppy. (well, not yet at least..) A few hours of work and the result is a system that’s at least 10°C cooler at all loads. For more info on what I did, click here for the whole story.