Hardware

Pimp’d my graphics card

There’s something about shiny PC hardware I can’t resist. In my opinion, the shinier and harder to install it is, the better. Today saw the arrival of a Thermalright HR-03 Plus for my 8800GTS.

Diagnosis? Dying HD?

Possibly the worst noise that you can expect to hear as a user of a computer: a HD in the process of kicking the bucket. Listen to this…

The problem with dual screens

I’ve had two seventeen inch screens for a while now and they’re really quite good for most desktop and gaming needs. It’s not a perfect setup though.

Dubugging Error

Rummaging through some of my old motherboard boxes, I noticed these little things moving around…

Seagate is about to shaft us in the DRM

Seagate have today released their first DRM-infected hard disk. It’s a feature they’re calling “Drive Trust”

Why the RAID5, God?! WHY!?!

My investment in RAID5 was well intentioned. Have a mammoth sized volume and redundancy if one of the disks fails. I thought I was in heaven and nobody or nothing could touch my unsinkable ship, the HMS Titanic.

Bootable USB Flash Drive

Nate explores the unnecessarily complex world of creating a bootable USB drive and shows you how to make it a lot simpler than it may have seemed.

My PSU Hell

Arent computers great? The way they Just Work™ without fail

Your hard drive is failing

It happens.. it always happens… right when you want it: your HD crashes, refusing to boot…