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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...
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...
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...
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...
Just Another iPad Blog | Destroy 2000 Years of Culture 3 Comments By 64NOMIS on January 27, 2010 “It’s going to succeed because no one has tried it before” It’s pretty easy to slam the new iPad. It’s a media consumption device in a coffee table book form factor. And its not the first. I carelessly abuse books. I don’t think this unit would survive the inhumane conditions granted to my last three paperbacks. I worry my 50” plasma isn’t big enough. I have no intereste in watching TV in my lap, much less a move I actually want to enjoy. I am an aggressive mu...
Chew* takes budget Athlon II X2 255 to it’s limit! 0 Comments By EnJoY on January 25, 2010 Chew*, a prominent TechREACTION community member, has used an old Prometeia Mach 1 phase-change cooling system to take a new budget Athlon II X2 255 CPU to it’s limits! Chew* wanted to show what the average user could achieve with this chip, and while Chew* is anything but average when it comes to tweaking, he did his best to dumb his results down for the rest of us. Starting with aircooling, he was able to net some impressive results. However, the real treat was when he slapped ...
[VID] Chew* Demonstrates Black Edition Profiles w/ MSI GD70 Mobo 3 Comments By EnJoY on January 21, 2010 Chew* has posted a quick how-to guide on the new OCZ Cas8 Black Edition memory modules using the MSI GD70 790FX motherboard for AMD. In the guide, he shows how fast and easy it is to implement the BE profiles, despite what some users on various forums are suggesting. Check out the video below, and be sure to thank Chew* for his time in making it.
Thermalright Venomous X – Return of the King 2 Comments By mav2000 on January 21, 2010 Introduction A couple of weeks ago I was looking for a new cooler and my mind was quite firmly set on the NH D14 from Noctua. But sometime in late December there was a bit of news from Thermalright about a new cooler and I thought that I should probably wait for it to come out before making a decision. Now, Thermalright held the performance crown for a long time with its TRUE series and it was only in the last year or so that it lost the crown to the Megahalems and then to the NH D14 from ...
|Canadian Winter – Two| 3 Comments By Slappa on December 29, 2009 After enjoying opening gifts and the atmosphere of the holidays I had almost forgotten about publishing a second blog. Back for the second part, here is Canadian Winter. To see the first part, click here. So at last, here is my second winter air blog. This time, I focused more on clocking my ram up to see how cold affects that. I used the same setup as previously. This mainly consists of my trusty Phenom II 955 X4 BE, Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P, and Ballistix D9GTS 2GB DDR3 set. Real quick I just wa...
Kingston Hyper-X KHX2000C8 Reviewed + AM3 DDR Clock Wall Broken! 0 Comments By EnJoY on December 29, 2009 Resident Overclocker Chew* has been busy in his lab again today, and this time he has more than a few treats for us. First up is his review the Kingston Hyper-X KHX2000C8D3T1K3/3GX triple-channel memory kit. He purchased the kit retail from Newegg as an inexpensive set for use in benching, but what he got was more than he had bargained for. While the kit itself proved to be a solid performer, however the real surprise came as he was finishing up his testing. Chew* decided to make a late ni...
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...
OCZ PC3 12800 Black Edition Memory By Chew* 0 Comments By EnJoY on December 23, 2009 Chew* is back at it with a new review of some AMD Black Edition optimized memory from OCZ Technology. This memory comes in two varieties, CAS7 and also CAS8, and is rated for 1600MHz @ 1.65v. What differentiates these kits from other kits with the same speeds and timings are that they come packed pre-loaded with special SPD profiles, only for AMD Phenom II Black Edition processors! What this enables the user to do is load up their AMD OverDrive utility, load the Black Edition memory profil...
PCI POST Code Reader: Is it dead or can I revive it? 4 Comments By Archer on December 23, 2009 It really helps to know when it is time to give it up and with one of these little toys it is a little easier. A piece of hardware with a purpose from Budget Gadgets. The USB PCI PC Analyzer Diagnoses Card Tester seems to be just the thing to use before scrapping anything, or should I say save headaches before scrapping. I have tested this on many assumed dead boards and it worked well as it let me know I was correct and they were dead with a 00 code (int 19 error). You would think that I coul...
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 4 Data Protection 0 Comments By Neuromancer on December 21, 2009 The Piecemeal Upgrade pt4 Data Protection: Redundancy, backups, offline and online storage. With limited funds in a single PC household it is important to have a PC that is never down for too long. One of the key problems associated with piecemeal upgrades however is the need to occasionally reinstall the operating system. This can be a nightmare trying to back up documents, photos, settings, applications as well as operating system tweaks one may prefer. Learning how to properly maintain y...

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