Frugal Computing Blog - CMOS Battery, wifi card and Nvidia GTX 660

It's been a while since I made an update. Life has been busy.
I tinkered with System #3 a while back.
It was starting to get resetted to default BIOS settings each time I started it after a while, and I knew the reason for that, the computer wizard that I am: The CMOS battery is dead.
I got a new CR2032 battery and replaced the CMOS battery. I tweaked with the BIOS settings a bit before that, mostly fan settings because the computer can be really quiet and kinda obnoxiously loud depending on which setting you put CPU & case fans to.
At the same time, now that the PC was being opened up, I decided to replace the AMD HD 7770 1 GB it had in it, with the spare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2 GB I had laying around.
Also, I decide to rip off a pci-e wifi card from System #7 since the GPU in it is running ridiculously hot for some reason still, and it needs all the ventilation it can get.
System #3 didn't have integrated wifi, and I can do without it in System #7. The wifi card was directly under the GPU fans, very close to them. I have System #7 on its side with the side panel off, to allow for maximum amount of hot air being pushed directly upwards xD that's how it goes.
Anyway, with this process, everything went very well. No issues.

That's just a short update. Hello world, I am alive.
See you around, whoever you are. Or actually, I won't. Because I don't know who you even are and I don't have camera feed in your house, so I won't be able to see you, around or otherwise. Oh well.

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