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Temps & Watts, CPU’s and Extreme Cooling, Part #2 0 Comments By Buckeye on February 26, 2010 Continuing along from Part #1 A few problems and sprung up that will effect the rest of the tests. The USB Temp monitoring probe is some what slow in response and it shows in some of the graphs. It also appears to be off in reading temps. The main problem with the temp probe is you can only use the probe they provided with the USB attachment, from what they told me its calibrated to each probe. So I cannot use any other probes that I have here on hand, the readings go way off if I use one of my ...
Guide: Overclocking a fan 0 Comments By OverShocked on February 26, 2010 How to overclock a fan. What are we doing? There are 2 different mods we can do, both of them will increase the voltage going to fan resulting in a higher fan speed. Fans are meant to run at 12v. We are going to run these fans at 17v and 24v. Are their any risks? Of course there are risks, its called overclocking for a reason. It will not be that risky though because we are not dealing with enough electricity that will cause harm to the body. Always proceed with caution though. The main ri...
Encoding old VHS/Beta Tapes and LP’s 3 Comments By Buckeye on February 26, 2010 A few years ago a friend of mine approached me with a huge project, he had something like 200+ VHS and Beta tapes of old football games that he collects and wanted them encoded onto DVD’s. He also had a few computer parts that we assembled to create a Capture/Encoding work station with and then the fun began. To capture the old tapes we used a Canopus ADVC-1394 capture card which is some what of an older card but still worked very well for what we wanted to do. One of the quirks this card ...
EVGA P55 Classified 200 Review 2 Comments By Jake on February 24, 2010 Introduction: Today we will be taking a look at the EVGA P55 Classified 200 the brother to their X58 Classified and X58 4-Way Classified motherboards. This board follows in the footsteps with the same color scheme as well as the same EATX form factor. The EVGA Team along with Peter “Shamino” Tan packed this board with all the features and overclocking options even the most hard core overclocker or enthusiast would want. Packing: Let’s take a look at the board and what it comes with. ...
Corsair Obsidian 800D – The Enthusiast Chassis 8 Comments By EnJoY on February 21, 2010 Today I will be reviewing the illustrious Obsidian 800D case from Corsair. The Obsidian (now a series) represents Corsair’s first foray into the realm of computer cases. This is an area that up until now has had numerous players, less than a handful of those who could be considered dominant from the enthusiast’s point of view. Corsair faces stiff competition from the likes of Lian-Li, Silverstone and Coolermaster, all who have a great deal of experience and vast portfolio’...
G.Skill Trident PC3-1600Mhz CL6 6GB DDR3 F3-12800CL6T-6GBTD Review 0 Comments By thebanik on February 20, 2010 Introduction We’ve seen most major memory manufacturers releasing new products optimized for the LGA1366 platform. Reaching speeds above 2000MHz at 1.65v is testament to how far things have come since hitting 1250MHz at 2.3v on our DDR2 sticks was reason for enthusiasts to brag. Now with Bloomfield we all know that we cannot simply push more voltages, provide moving air to the modules and hope we end up with a winning kit. That’s simply not the case. There is now a limit of 1.65v wh...
Temps & Watts, CPU’s and Extreme Cooling, Part #1 3 Comments By Buckeye on February 18, 2010 In the beginning when I first started using different methods of extreme cooling the first unit I tested was a Jinu Single Stage Cooling unit that was custom made for me. This was an amazing cooling unit that included a Single Stage Phase Chiller installed in a TJ07 case. The TJ07 cooling tower sat next to what I called the main rig which was in another TJ07 case. It had a EVGA 790i SLI motherboard and a QX9770 which ran at 4.8ghz overclock for 24/7 use. It was an amazing machine that had so muc...
Review: Cooler Master USP 100 (RC-P100) 4 Comments By The Duke on February 18, 2010 After an immense build up of anticipation, the Cooler Master USP 100 (MSRP $99) has finally arrived! It was like the first date butterflies all over again, minus the stuttering of the ice-breaking opening line. Without wasting anymore time on small talk, let’s break this thing wide open, shall we? Cooler Master’s quick introduction of the case: “USP 100 (RC-P100) is a mid–tower that is created with enthusiasts in mind, built with the classic black body structure and a so...
G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI Memory 1 Comment By Buckeye on February 18, 2010 I had a chance to run a kit of G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI Memory, Tri-Channel kit for Intel Core I7 CPU’s, through some tests the past few days. Before I go into all the results I want to touch on the market for these kits. If you do a search on Newegg you come up with 36 listings which range in price from $145.99 to $283.99 with kits in 6-7-6-18 to 9-9-9-27 timings, and 1.5v to 1.65v. So as you can see, this range of memory has a pretty wide selection of kits for what ever you are loo...
Cooler Master Excalibur Fan Review 0 Comments By mav2000 on February 18, 2010 Introduction Recently my good friends at Cooler Master gave me a call and asked me to take a good look at their new case fan. I half expected a 140 mm version of their famous R4’s or maybe a stronger version of their 200mm line up. Little did I expect to see the Excalibur. This fan is a far departure from their current units and I for one was pretty excited with the design. The Excalibur has been named after the legendary sword of King Arthur, which was said to have magical propertie...
Overclocking The MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 0 Comments By The Duke on February 14, 2010 Now that you have read my first blog (*cough* HERE *cough*) about the HD4200 IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor). We will be moving on to overclocking the HD4200 in this article and seeing what all it has! Hopefully, this is satisfy all the advanced users curiosities, if you have any, about this IGP. This was a new experience for me, because I am an avid gamer and have always had a stand alone GPU. IGP is not in my vocabulary when it comes to building gaming systems. Needless to say, I was pre...
Clarkdale 661 on phase test 0 Comments By 0Ro! on February 13, 2010 Few days ago arrived a new clocking toy. An Intel Core i5 661 CPU with Clarkdale cores. Haven´t tested it on air or water, I moved straight to single stage phase change cooling. Insulated the mobo with kneeded rubber, mounted the cooling and started to play. (more…)
MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 8 Comments By The Duke on February 12, 2010 With my I7 system sitting around and only needing a video card, I decided to take it out of my AMD rig and use the IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) the board offers. If you all are like me, it has probably been at least 10 years since you even thought about integrated graphics. With the new games that are available in today’s market these IGP’s, however much improved, will still be slaughtered. The real question however, is just how bad will these games eat up this ATI Radeon HD...
A Guide Regarding Old Graphics Cards Throttling & More 0 Comments By Oj101 on February 12, 2010 So you’re sitting a few second away from the end of your world record run of 3DMark2001 and the graphics card isn’t even chilled – you’re so hardcore you’re letting the poor GeForce 4 Ti4400 sweat it out with air cooling. Everything’s going smoothly until halfway through Nature when suddenly your framerate drops through the floor. Yip, you’ve hit thermal throttling. First off, lets get the nitty-gritties out of the way. As I’m sure you’d have...
My thoughts on the EVGA X58 SLI LE. 3 Comments By Lu523 on February 10, 2010 Let me start by saying that I have never done a hardware review. So I may ramble a bit. The box that it came in is on the plain side. Not many accessories are included. When I first held the board in my hands I was like “That is a sexy mobo.” The gray and black color scheme looks very good. The componet layout seems very good also. For the purpose that I bought it it seemed a perfect choice. In seeing that I am useing it as a cruncher it has everything that I need. The onboard hea...
TRENDnet 5-Port 10/100Mbps GREENnet Switch 0 Comments By The Duke on February 9, 2010 With my room about to be the host of 2 computers, I have been in the market for a network switch to help me out. I finally decided on the Trendnet 5-Port 10/100Mbps GREENnet Switch. Features: • 5 x 10/100Mbps Auto-Negotiation, Auto-MDIX Ethernet ports • GREENnet technology reduces power consumption when: a. Ethernet port is not in use b. Connected device is turned off c. Connected device is in power-saving mode d. Based on Ethernet cable length • Compliant with IEEE 802.3/IEEE 802.3u s...

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