Zalman Reserator installation
I recently installed a Reserator on Earthquake to get some practice with ultra-silent water cooling. This Zalman is some pretty amazing kit.
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Earthquake Current Hardware
I replaced the 60gb IDE Drive with a 10,000 rpm Quantum Atlas 10k II Ultra-160 SCSI drive to boost performance. The drive is a bit noisier, but the seek times and I/O on the thing more than make up for…
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More Storage for Earthquake
I’ve been running out of room on Earthquake, so I decided to plop in a 60gb ATA hard drive to act as storage. The SCSI drives will now be for production stuff, and the ATA drive will hold my games,…
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New motherboard for Earthquake
I recently picked up a new A7v266-E motherboard and an Athlon XP 2000+ processor for very cheap off of ebay, so I decided to throw that processor/mobo combo into the old Locust and upgrade Earthquake slightly from an XP 1600+…
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New video card for Earthquake
I purchased an ATI RADEON 8500LE card for less than $75 and put it in over the weekend. It felt weird not going to the NVIDIA support site for the latest video card drivers. But this card is quite a…
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Earthquake Updates
I added another stick of 512MB PC2400 RAM. Just for kicks and so I can add a few more tracks on my Cakewalk recording software. I ended up ditching the DigiDoc 5 and the PCMods baybus since the case would…
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Earthquake’s New Wood Case
Background: Earthquake is my primary machine, and I just can’t keep my hands off of it. Lately, I’ve had a bug to build it a new case, to replace the rather poorly modded HX08 that currently hosts it. So after…
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Earthquake’s Old Case
This is a little blurb about Earthquake‘s previous case mods. I’ve since given it a total makeover. Details about this case and the water cooling project it contains can be found here. – Intake hole in bezel with wire mesh…
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Earthquake notes to self
I wanted to make sure to document what temp probe monitored what in Earthquake so here’s a short list, mostly for my own use: 1. Water temp from radiator 2. Processor temp 3. Ambient room temp 4. Top HD (HD…
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Water cooling an Earthquake
In the Beginning: Last Fall I decided to build myself a new workstation and spent some time looking around for parts to build myself a cool-looking and awesome-performing machine. After poking around in various hardware and tech sites, I decided…
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