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[quote='-silencer-',index.php?page=Thread&postID=32461#post32461]This was around '99-'00 in the Pentium3/Athlon t'bird days, and air cooling was all about high-powered fans. The thing sounded like a mini-vacuum cleaner inside my case[/quote]That comment brought back some old memories. I dug around some of my archives from those times and found these comments about the whole "fan" thing.
[color=#000000][font='Helvetica']You might have too many fans in your computer when ....
- it hovers.
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has asked to borrow your computer when their windtunnel broke down.
- you've lost an argument with it.
- WHAT !!!???!!! WHAT !!!??!!! I can't hear you.
- you've lost a girlfriend over it.
- you had to take out a loan to pay the power bill.
- you blew out the local Power Switching station the first time you powered it up.
- you did it the second time, too.
- you know what "Shit hits the fan" looks like.
- the fans have their own power supply.
- you blew out the regional Power Switching station the third time you powered it up.
- you only have four fingers on one hand.
- people laugh at you.
- you only have four fingers on two hands.
- you imagine the "fans" are cheering for you.
- you've gone deaf.
- you think everything in the would be perfect, if you only had one more.
- you have a website about - your fans.
- Grainger is your fan supplier.
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