Are there not many small stand alone computer places anymore?

In my small town, there are not. Well, there are, but the one or two of
them are "repair" and not "sales." They might have some second-hand stuff
to sell, but it is not the type of place you'd walk into in order to buy a
new laptop, printer, or a network card, for example.

Mike
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Re: Re: The Decline Of Pcs
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon Jan 05 2026 06:30 am

In the early 90's my brother built a system, He was really
frustrated when he called me, his computer on boot would just shut
down. 1st thing I asked him, "did you put hermal paste on the CPU",
he said what is thermal paste, he went and bought some and his
system booted normally afterwards.

He had a 50/50 chance of putting it on the pin side. Glad it worked out for him. :)

Not really, I explained to him the thermal paste goes between the top of the CPU and the heat sink.

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computers. Everything is smaller and a lot of parts do mutiple things

> saving more space, but I like the air flow idea too.

Y'all need to remember to replace your thermal paste every couple of years, e

>ecially in smaller cases. my mid-tower was creeping up into the 80s (celsius)
>hen I wasn't doing much on my system. I swapped out the thermal paste and dro
>ed the idle temp by 20 degrees. Configured CPU throttling and my idle temp is
>ow in the mid-40s.

A cool CPU is a happy CPU!

Yes, that's true. I usually have a thermal sensor monitor on my computers
and only once have I run into that problem really, although I'm pretty
easy on computers, very rarely doing anything stressful on them.
Most of my software is so old that a new processor can sleep though
running it.. B)

At the moment the processor on this computer is at 50c and it
is rated to be okay up to 115c.. The load with 3 programs running
is down in the 35% range..

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