Easy project for an easy week
This week has been especially chill for me – which calls for a nice and easy project. How about a rebuild of a PS3 with a dirt-cheap (literally, I couldn’t…
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Bippity boppity, your Asus is now my property.
This week has been pretty good for my Asus collection of motherboard – I found 3 rare boards, in varying condition. Board 1 Congrats, it’s an Asus! Asus P4C800 Deluxe!…
DFI = Dat Feeling Intensifies
I’m back with some more untested trash I call treasure. This time something truly unusal, a DFI NF4 Lanparty board, but with its original package. Man, if this doesn’t scream…
Help! My motherboard is on fire!
This weeks project is a quite a nice socket 1366 motherboard – ASUS Rampage II Extreme – with an even more unusual failure. Southbridge thinks it’s on fire. But before…
An unlikely encounter
This weeks post is about a request I got. Seller of one of my previous GPUs has reached out to me seeking help with his graphics card. Me being be,…
Freebies are always welcome
I managed to snag a freebie – a free laptop that was left next to the dumpster. It’s nothing special, really, but it’s a freebie, so I can’t really complain…
Why do I do this to myself…
I hate printers. Everybody hates printers, at least to some degree. They for some reason NEVER work as intended. Be it wrong colors, dried ink, unable to connect to Wi-Fi…
Repairing a top 15% GPU
Yeah… That’s a clickbait. In reality it’s jusy a GTX 580 with a custom Arctic cooler. It’s a high bin though, top 15%, give or take. At least according to…
Radeon 7970 + not-so-ragefixing #5
Since Poczta Polska has failed me ONCE AGAIN and I couldn’t finish a project I was cooking up for quite a few weeks now I had to come up with…
2 fast 2 furious
I still needed a heatsink to my ASUS GTX 580 and when a suitable GPU appeared I immediately jumped the gun and bought it. It had supposedly working cooling and…