On last sunday, I have just bought some new upgrades for my computer. I found out that the processor heat is a bit higher than normal temperature. When idle it stay at 59 Celsius. When running Facebook Cafe World, it increase to 69+ something. I suspect there is something wrong with the motherboard or CPU fan. I am not sure whether the Intel Motherboard is the cause of the heating problem or under perform issue. The CPU fan also making noises.

So, I decided to try Cooler Master Hyper TX3 with small thermal grease included to cool down the processor temperature. After successfully install everything, the processor temperature drop 10+ celsius. Although not much improvement, but at least better than existing. I guess I need to install additional fans to make the CPU temperature even cooler. CPU usage drop to 35% from 55% last time. This is pretty cool as it does not make my computer lagging anymore.

Overall I am satisfied with this upgrade but I just hope it can be lower down to 40 celsius something. I also bought additional Kingston DDR2 800MHz RAM 2GB because I am planning to migrate to Windows 7 64bit when I have enough budget. Can’t wait for that!

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Features

• Flexible mountings for Intel Socket LGA 775/1156 and AMD Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3.
• Maximum compatible CPU wattage: over 130W TDP.
• 3 x Direct Contact heat-pipes with aluminum fins to provide excellent heat dissipation.
• Option for adding 2nd fan to increase cooling performance.
• New 92mm PWM fan with wide RPM range and anti-vibration rubber pads.
• Silent CPU cooler at only17 dBA (at minimum speed).
• Easy swappable fan by clips (clips for 2nd fan included).
• Excellent airflow design with compact heatsink dimension.

On 26 February 2010, it is the official release date of Kingston 16GB and 32GB SDHC card on the market. It has new capabilities of reading data at 22MB/s and writing speed of 18MB/s. With these fast speed and bigger storage, photographer will definitely benefit from this new card for optimize photography session.

With this writing speed, it is able to keep up with fast sequential capture for any scene. New gadgets usually comes with a new amazing price. Selling on 16GB and 32GB cards for $129 and $245, it is a bit overprice. Not many people can afford this until the price is drop. Good thing is that it comes with lifetime warranty, but will any SD card ever broken down before? It will be a myth.