T-P-L.com

Pioneer, the box the site and my mail and such are hosted, has dedided to die on me recently. Had to run without email for a day, then downgraded the box to its old stats (Celeron 466), atleast I had mail again. Since it decided to die the night before Canada Day, I couldnt even get replacement parts for it. Finally 2 days later I got a new motherboard and ram for the box, and now the box runs on 512M of DDR, a fair bit of improvement from its old ram back at the board that fried. Also, just about the same time (a few days before), the power supply on pioneer fried aswell (well the fan died). So now pioneer has a new power supply too.

As fate would have it, the new board and the new power supply, and the case didnt go well together. The intake fan on the power supply ended up right above the cpu fan. Suffice to day they were competing for the same air, and if anything the power supply ended up sucking in the hot air from the cpu. Thus pioneer ended up needing a new box, conveniently on my junk pile I had my old desktop case, so pioneer grew a fair bit in the process of being repacked to a new box. I’m going to make and post some side by side photos of the old case and the new case.

here is the link to the gallery