where did this thread come from all of a sudden?
I used to be quite interested in computers, but that was quite some time ago before I started university and work. Nowadays I don't have the time for it, but I must say that the laptops I use, your average brand in the range of five hundred bucks, are garbage. I don't know if is the difference between laptop and desktop tower computers or something that applies to current hardware generally, but I am really surprised at how poorly many mid range laptops seem to perform.
If I find a new job which pays better and have the time I might get back into all of it. I was interested in building a new desktop tower computer from scratch, but not sure if I would really have the time. as for cooling I only used water cooling on some camera for work. I can't really remember what we used it for but it was a really expensive camera which had an 'error rate of one electron' or something strange like that. anyway, since I had never configured a water cooling system I really thought I might mess it up and destroy the camera. it wasn't that difficult though, when you know how to use tubes and those tube screws or what they are called in English. Your average air cooling is much simpler though.