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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Old Machines, junk it or repair it 2 Comments By Buckeye on February 5, 2010 Many of us computer geeks have friends and family who turn to us time and time again with problems with there computers, we either fix the problem or scrap the machine. We also run into older pieces of equipment that for what ever reason we decided it might have some use and take it back home to see what we can do with it. A few months back a friend of mine was having issues with his wife’s old laptop, it would shut down on its own from time to time. The laptop in question is a eMachine M5...
USB3 and Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 – Get Ready for Speed ! 0 Comments By Buckeye on February 4, 2010 Many new motherboards these days are coming out with new features that are very exciting and change the way we will be using our computers for everyday use, including gaming, video camera use and mass storage. New features are being added to new motherboards that will make these tasks mush easier and faster for us, these include USB3 and SATA3. Gigabyte has taken its great performing GA-790FXT-UD5P for the AMD platform and added USB3 & SATA3 ports in the GA-790FXTA-UD5 line. Even though...
Gigabyte “Upgrade Your Life” Show Case 1 Comment By Buckeye on February 3, 2010 I am sure many of you have seen these cases at overclocking events, trade shows and events like CES. It’s the Gigabyte “Upgrade Your Life” Show Case. I was very fortunate to have one of these beautiful cases sent to me. It was a used case and had been around a bit I think, but that’s no matter. Here is a typical Gigabyte setup at a show. So let’s break one of these cases down, see how’s its built and put in a starter setup to see how it all works and looks. Here we have just...
Apevia X-Qpack & Gigabyte P55M-UD4 uATX build 0 Comments By Buckeye on December 26, 2009 Allways in the upgrade cycle it seems. A popular case that my friends like to use is the Apevia X-QPack uATX line and we have built many of these. So I will be working with this case and upgrading a prebuilt system that was completed months ago. Apevia makes three lines of the uATX series, the X-Qpack, X-Qpack2 and X-Qboii which is a uATX tower. You can see that they come in a wide range of colors too pick from. www.apevia.com/Products_Level3.asp?CID=1&CID2=2&CID3=0 www.apevia.com/Produc...
ZombieTek – LCD Display 3 Comments By Buckeye on December 26, 2009 Last year I began working on a project with a couple of friends that was based on a 4” LCD Display powered by a SLCD6 controller. After seeing these units at Reachtech.com who manufactures these units in all different sizes and specifications I thought to myself that one of these units would be a great MOD to show computer data on the front of my TJ07 that I had just built. With the help from my friend Jeff I managed to get a unit from Steve over at Reachtech, both of whom are great guys and f...
Gigabyte P55M-UD4 Review 0 Comments By Buckeye on October 13, 2009 With the P55 Core I5 mother boards that seem to be very popular these days Gigabyte has released its first uATX version of this platform, this motherboard takes off of the same lines as the P55-UD4P which is a very solid platform and I expect the uATX version will be also. So here is a direct link to Gigabytes website on this product. http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3168 Over time I have built many uATX computers that are generally used for business ...

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