Tech Talk / Nerd Musings / Geek Daydreams
Did some cooling tweaking and overclocking over the weekend and received the following results using 1.85 volts in the core: These temperatures were taken while running at 100% load for 30 minutes. I didn’t bother taking idle temps, but…
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Finally got Plague put back together, after gutting it for parts for Earthquake. It’s going to be a game PC for others to play on my LAN when they come over for beers and such. Plus I need a Win9x PC…
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Bah RAM sticks. Headcrash has been locking up on me quite often lately, but I finally resolved the issue by popping out the four sticks and re-seating them. It looks to have done the trick. They must have come lose during all…
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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.
This is a machine that I bought about four years ago and have been upgrading steadily ever since. Many of its original components have found their way into my other boxes. I bought my wife a new Dell Inspiron Laptop, making…
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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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It’s been a while since I updated this page, as I’ve been too busy playing with my new toy Earthquake. I got the trim for the last mod (heh!) to this machine, some fan duct trim from CaseEtc. Tonight I’m going to cut…
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I tore apart Headcrash over the weekend because I was sick of Windows NT and was looking for something new to do. Since I’m planning on getting my Win2k MSCE I decided to make it a Windows 2000 Server. After fighting with…
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The mods on the Aopen HX08 are pretty standard, as this was my first case, and consist of the following: One 120mm chimney fan sucking air out of top. One 120mm ducted fan in bezel in lower front blowing air into the…
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I had a file server that had basically outgrown its case and was looking for a bigger, full tower case. I’d recently picked up the case modding bug and was looking for a good solid case with good cooling possibilities,…
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