Do the heat pipes in heatsink/fan units go bad after some years? I have never heard a single story of a heat pipe going bad. Which of course doesn't mean that it can't happen, but I'd be very surprised if it did. If your heatsink/fan assembly doesn't perform like it used to, you should first …

Or use a 5.25" mobile HDD rack for 3.5" HDDs. In case you want to run different operating systems on separate HDDs just get one caddy for each disk.

That sounds interesting. Do you remember the video card and the amount of memory? What size monitors were used for CAD back then? I don't remember much about the display card except it was PCI, branded as ELSA Gloria something, designed especially OpenGL in mind, and way too expensive than …

Hi guys, I recently acquired a Tyan Titan Turbo ATX (S1572) Socket 7 board for a Pentium 233 MMX build, but unfortunately it came without the ATX I/O shield. The layout of that particular shield is rather uncommon but it happens to be in the picture I found on Wikipedia (see the attached image where …

... The buttons are prone to fail. On my unit, I replaced all 17, since half of them weren't working correctly anymore. Where did you get the replacement buttons and what make/model did you use? Since you are from Germany as well, if you happen to have a part number that can be ordered from any …