Recent content by Sobaknight

Hi all, My HP Phoenix (860-011no) temperature concers keep on going.. Now that my CPU temps are pretty ok (given that ambient is 28-31C while gaming) I now have issues with gtx 970 GPU temp. It is some HP OEM revision with just one fan. It is 80C even when game is on but no action ongoing (i.e...

..and the solution is to clean apply fresh thermal paste, be careful with the screw and make sure they are all the way down:-)

Howdy, Planning to add more memory and got a little confused. This Kingston DDR4 was advertised as "you may want to buy" for your computer. It is somehow tested to be compatible with prebuilt OEM devices like my HP http://www.kingston.com/en/memory/search/?partid=kcp421nd8/8 But I was going to...

Thanks for the tip but I had to open the cable tie (it was actually a tape) to get some slack and be able to lift mobo. After that I tied the cable again so situation (tension and such) was kind of different than originally. Anyway, those two antenna's are identical? I would guess so.

Hello, Had my HP Thimphu motherboard temporarily lifted up while keeping most of cables connected. When mounting it back i realized that one very thin black wire had come off from motherboard. Started to check this things out and then another equal wire right next to it came off also. Got...

Hi folks, First write up of mine:-) So, i had issues with HP 860-011no Thimphu CPU temperatures. CPU is i5-6600K. It turned out that cooler was very badly mounted and was touching the CPU from one edge only (80% of the area was not touching at all and paste was virgin in that 80%). Paste...