What's a good desktop computer brand?

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laptop is starting to overheat
do I chance cracking it open and doing it myself causing irreparable harm, or do I overpay some smelly gamer to do it?

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the best way to cool down electronic equipment is with what is called a "water cooling system"

every time your laptop gets hot, submerge it in a filled bathtub (if you do this with bubbles, it doubles as cleaning!) for no less than 45 seconds

how much soap should I add to get all the lint out?

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an entire box of Tide laundry detergent

I dont have tide
can I use bacon fat instead?

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I don't have a washing machine
Can I use a tire iron?

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Anyone have experience with laptop cooling trays?
They worth the trouble?
with or without fans?
with or without Tide (R)

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I was thinking of making one of these

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so I bought an airbake cookie sheet off amazon, and elevated it on tiny rubber sticky feet
my overheating error messages have ceased

for now

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So I'm buying a desktop with OPM. Main requirement is decent amount of RAM. Any brand suggestions, or should I just browse Newegg and get whatever?

Thinking of going with this and getting a pair of monitors to go with it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 24G1E30462

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So which one should I get?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883220568
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 24G1E30462

the 4 fold more RAM is kinda nice for some applications