December photoblogging, week 1

I’ve previously mentioned that my computer is oil cooled. Most of the time, running a submersion based computer is an act consisting of equal parts high-end gaming, and giggling madly at eddying heat currents. Sometimes though, just sometimes, it consists of cussing and swearing. I’d been getting a LOT of bluescreens. After some testing, I isolated the problem to my main GPU. It looks like a year of bathing in mineral oil finally took its tole. So, with a reluctant whimper from my bank account, I purchased a new GPU: http://yfrog.com/0ybr9x0j