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With the recent release of the eee 1000H in Australia, I managed to get my hands on one and put it through its paces. It is a nifty little machine, the Atom 1.6Ghz Processor and 2Gb (Upgraded from 1Gb) DDR2 means that both Vista and XP are no sweat. I have elected to stay with Windows XP for my eee, as it has across the board driver support. Todays article will delve into overclocking this little beasty and a little trick I picked up on the eeeuser forums to bring down the HDD and CPU temperatures. Above is a quick snap of my victim, the Ebony Black eee 1000H, upgraded with a 160Gb Hitachi SATA HDD, and 2Gb Kingston DDR2-667 Ram. The mod itself is very simple, firstly you turn your eee over and remove the back panel protecting the HDD and RAM, 2 screws hold it in at the top: 
Once inside, you will be greeted by this: 
You can see the HDD (Hitachi 160GB SATA 2.5), the RAM (Kingston DDR2-667 2Gb), and the Wireless Card (Ralink Mini-PCIe A/B/G/N), turn over the lid you just popped off and you will see it is covered in what looks like aluminium foil. 
If you look to the bottom left of the tin foil, you can see slightly raised sections where the covered vent is. After cutting it will look like this: 
Now, simply reassemble the lid to the back of the eee and you are ready for some cool computing. Here is a shot with it reattached: 
Notice how you can now see the HDD sticker through the vent, some serious heat dissipates here from the HDD meaning less work has to be done by the fan to get heat away fromthe CPU. Finally here is a shot of eeectl measuring the temperature of the CPU, bear in mind this is clocked at 2Ghz, whilst watching an NVIDIA 720P Hi-Res movie. 58 Degrees used to be my idle temperature, now it is my load temperature, the CPU idles at 52 degrees, and at 1.6Ghz at 48 degrees (all temps celcius): 
I hope you enjoyed this little tute, showing a simple way to cool the eee using only a screwdriver and a cutter knife, overall it has reduced my temps by 6 degrees celciius, more than 10%. Many thanks to the eeeuser forums and the creators of eeectl software. (I used Baxters 1000H modified release for 2Ghz on the 1000H, drop me a line if you need a copy).
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