Locust

A while ago I was messing around with some unused water cooling parts and decided to build a poor man’s Koolance Exos. One the one hand, it cost me less than $5 to build (since I had the water cooling…
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With the release of Steam from Valve software, a 9gb drive just wasn’t enough for OS files, plus a gangload of game files for Quake ][, Quake ]I[, the various Half-Lives, Unreal Tournament 2003, Medal of Honor – Allied Assault…
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Background: Locust finally received some new hardware to make it a decent secondary rig, and in honor of it’s rebirth, I decided to give it a new look with some stain and basically do a better job of rerouting everything….
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In making an entry to the Locust pages, I just noticed that It’s been about a year since I’ve done any mods or anything to it. Wow. Anyway, I got to feeling antsy about my hardware so I bought a…
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Background: Locust is my Frankenstein’s monster, an amalgamation of spare parts collected over the years to make a fourth computer that I could tear down and reformat to suit whatever I wanted to test at the moment, without losing any…
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I finally got around to rebuilding Locust, and in the process fried my v330 vid card (hence the crappy 2mb PCI graphics card in the specs). I was switching the blow direction of a fan while the machine was on…
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Locust is currently stripped and in pieces, cannibalized for parts for my other computers. When Earthquake gets built, this guy will be created from remaining stuff.

Locust is a collection of spare parts left over from various boxes I’ve built over the years. I use this box as my scratch computer, primarily using it to try out new operating systems and various tweaks. At any given…
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