{"id":1181,"date":"2011-08-12T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2013-02-03T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T10:43:37","slug":"argh-htpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Argh HTPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic MPC has been suggesting for a while that the best heatsink\/fan for a HTPC build was the Scythe Big Shuriken. I&#8217;d seen one in April back in Osaka, but was not quite in the right brainspace to purchase it. So, I placed an order with PCCasegear <a href=\"http:\/\/pccasegear.com\/\">http:\/\/pccasegear.com\/<\/a> (whose excellent next day delivery to rural Vic arrived promptly at our PO box) as the smaller profile should fit.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it should.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t and the final configuration doesn&#8217;t allow for my 12GB of RAM. All the mucking around also meant that I had to clean off the thermal goop from the CPU.<\/p>\n<p>Defeated, I&#8217;ve installed the stock Intel heatsink\/fan.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1181 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1182'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_8930-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1183'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_8932-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1184'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_8933-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic MPC has been suggesting for a while that the best heatsink\/fan for a HTPC build was the Scythe Big Shuriken. I&#8217;d seen one in April back in Osaka, but was not quite in the right brainspace to purchase it. So, I placed an order with PCCasegear http:\/\/pccasegear.com\/ (whose excellent next day delivery to rural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Argh HTPC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[360,113,313,314,52],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-funny","tag-htpc","tag-ram","tag-scythe-big-shuriken","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}