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.
Computers and Mods
It’s been a year
I can’t believe that Plague has been churning away for a year, hosting Rainwalk.net! In a totally unintentional celebration of that event, I’ve replaced the storage on this drive with something a bit more modern, replacing the LVD-80 drives with…
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A machine for my mom using an acrylic PC case
My mom asked me to build her a new PC and I decided to put it into an acrylic PC case to liven things up.
Where I rock
Once upon a time there was a “Where I rock” thread on [H]ardOCP, so I took these pictures of my manland.
LAN Party Time!
I’m prepping manland to have the fellas over so the five of us can drink beer and shoot each other in the comfort of my own home. Two PCs and three laptops over low latency gigE to my local Devastation…
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Locust water cooling
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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Headcrash Hardware
Current Specs/Stats: MSI K7D Master-L Motherboard Dual AMD MP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Processors Kingston 512MB PC2100 ECC Registered DDR Diamond Viper v770 Ultra TNT2 32mb Video Card 4x Quantum Atlas IV Ultra-160 9.1 GB 7200 RPM SCSI HD 2x Quantum Atlas…
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New hardware for Headcrash
Headcrash received some new hardware and a system wipe so I could install a fresh copy of Windows 2003 Server on it. It’s now serving as a test bed for various applications and experiments, like running IIS and Apache on…
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December Devastation Monthly Summary
Although I haven’t been playing much due to real life constraints, it looks like the server still sees some action, which makes me happy. Kudos to 0megaMan[APE] for getting the highest cumulative score for December, and to Ent for maintaining…
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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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