And when the rain begins to fall…
This post is going to be a compilation about a 3 AGP GPUs, which mostly didn’t go as planned. Case 1: Radeon HD3850 This GPU is the most powerful card…
2024
Defusing a PSX
Since the laser in my old PSX finally died (after pot tweaking it a few times) I’ve been on the market for a new one. I found one, unfortunately a…
Retro is just not profitable…
I insta-bought a lot of 5 motherboards and got one additional afterwards. There were 2 socket A and NF2-Ultra boards that made me buy it, as it turns out these…
New doesn’t mean good
I finally got myself a ‘new’ laptop – Lenovo Ideapad 5, model 14ARE05. I immediately noticed that under any load fans ramped up to nearly max, so it likely was…
It’s going to be easy, right? Right?
I got my hands on an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard that supposedly was not turning on. Easy enough – flash the BIOS, maybe it’s going to boot. But then it…
Old, but gold
Old PCs are nice, but guess what makes them even better. Monitors. Old monitors. Yeah, we’re going back in time again, this time to bring back the glory of a…
Got blinded by the money…
Since… hmm.. always I wanted a slim PS3. Not because I needed a reliable PS3, since I made both a 40nm and 65nm Frankenstein BC console and have multiple other…
Ragefixing session #2
Yesterday I was testing capacitors when my tester decided to die. Let’s see what went wrong. It’s a cheap, chinesium transistor tester, model K120263BSJH. I modded it to use 2×18650…
Not everything has to be difficult
Today I have an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Rev2.0 to fix. This was a really easy fix, at least it would have been if I had the knowledge, but let’s start…
AMD Radeon HD6957
On my bench landed an absolutly abominated HD6950, or as I later discovered HD6970. I had not much information about it, besides that it was supposedly working. I have a…