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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2346909,00.asp
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http://www.instructables.com/id/Rework-a-U...ssive-Capacity/ Those UPS devices you buy for your computer usually have a gel-cell battery that lasts for a few years. Less if your power goes out a lot. When you replace them, you pay a bundle, even if it's a standard cell. This short Instructable will demonstrate how to rework an older UPS for more capacity with cheaper battery power. The picture shows some sample UPSs and an example of the gel cell from one of them. The UPSs come in various capacities and, although you can boost the capacity, the output power is fixed. When you start out, make sure that the UPS you're going to modify will provide the volt-amps an…
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http://hackaday.com/2009/08/03/diamond-thermal-paste/ [Jared Bouck] over at InventGeek writes about his experience making his own thermal paste. Diamonds can be up to five times as thermally conductive as silver, the primary ingredient in most popular thermal compounds. He combines 60,000 mesh diamond dust he ordered off eBay with non-conductive silicon grease using a special mixer he constructed to keep down the dust. After some experimentation he achieved a max load temperature of 38 degrees Celsius versus a leading silver paste’s temperature of 57c on the same system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_conductivity List of thermal conductivity values…
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New single-handed controller full circle from pong to this now we can drink beer and game again :vio37:
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Ok, so I love modding computer cases and I was wondering if anyone had a spare cases that I could play with. Thanks, Zach
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Best buy had an H50 on sale and I couldn't stop myself. I was kind of surpised at how many rough the bottom was out of the box. I started lapping it down and I will show pictures when I am done, but here it was it looks like to start.
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/dsci0915.jpg/ Just got that done today at the fair.
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AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (clocked to just over a 2100+) Thermal Take Volcano 9 w/ Cool Mod 1 Gig of PC2100 CL2.5 RAM (2 sticks, double sided, 512Meg) 80 Gig 7200RPM Western Digital 40 Gig 7200RPM Maxtor VisionTek GeForce3 Ti200 64Meg w/ Blue Orb SB Live Intel Pro/1000 MT nic SIIG Fast SCSI Antec True430 P/S Creative 16x DVD PlexWriter 48/24/48A Lian-Li PC-82 case w/ side window (exclusively thru Comp-USA *cough*) Blue Cathode light bar NEC MultiSync FP950 HP Scanjet 3c (SCSI, legal size glass) Cambridge FPS2000 Digital (4.1 speakers) HP DeskJet 990Cse
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I'm looking to buy a dvd burner, but it has to be able to do anything...I'm out of IDE connections. Dont want to pay almost 300 for a plextor, been looking at the NEC ND-1300A DVD+RW/-RW Drive. Anyone got one of these? If so, any problems?
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Just ordered a Seagate SATA 120MB drive... Hoping that it will show some improvment over my WD 80MB SE Drive... Going from ATA100 to SATA150 should, we shall see. Anyone else already have a SATA drive and if so is it really better or is it all hype? Guess I will find out soon enuff!
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EDIMAX 32bit PCI 1000/100/10Base-TX Copper Gigabit Fast Ethernet Adapter, Model EN-9230TX-32 - Retail Only $14 Click Here
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OK, I broke down and had to get it... Also pick up another Intel MT 1000 Desktop NIC... I feel like the Koolaid Man busting through a brick wall. D-Link DGS-1008D 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Switch Oh ya! See all ya saturday!
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Which motherboard that supports the amd processors do you think are the best
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I started making one based off of this model...then adding Spybot, Norton, etc. Just curious if someone has already researched this and made an awesome one I can steal some ideas from or can share the iso
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