So the past few weeks I've had some issues with my PC randomly restarting in the middle of a gaming session, and I'm not ready to attribute it to the summer heat.

So, I would love some clarity on the following:

• My closed loop CPU cooler (NZXT Kraken 240mm) is four years old. Is this old enough to worry about leaks and/or coolant evaporation?

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SO.

The 74ls273 is a pretty neat device. 8-bit flipflops with an output enable and a clear contents signal. All in all it's pretty nice. Only problem? No input enable. You throw a hunk of data at it and it'll swallow it up even if you don't want it to.

The solution? the 74ls173. The '173 has both input and output enable pins, plus a clear contents pin. The only problem? One, it's only 4 bits, so I've gotta double them up.

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Here is the mission.

My old Work Computer, on which I do most of my developing, website managerial tasks, and other things related to my employment, was showing its age.

So I pulled some of its guts out. I left the HDD, disk drives, FDD, and other things inside, because those are irrelevant.

Here are its guts. Note the old NVidia GPU and the old Athlon 64.

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But the new CPU cooler is on, and working. Certainly boosted my confidence in building. Seriously.

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