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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…
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…
This week on my bench laid a pretty interesting motherboard – Gigabyte X48-DS4, which finally gave a challenge in terms of my repairman skills. Without further ado, let’s get right…
… So, what I said last time was a lie. I said that it’s unfixable. Welp, I found another dead PE7700, with *spoilers*, likely good motherboard. How about we check…
Another dead motherboard from ASUS, this time for AMD processors. It’s a Crosshair V Formula. Problem – absolutely no power. Power_on# signal is present, so the southbridge IC is toast.…
For the last month I’ve been lacking a NAS. It’s not that the previous setup broke, it’s just the fact that the machine that was hosting the TrueNAS service is…
Recently my bench greeted not one, but two old and pretty exotic GPUs – Nvidia 9800GX2. For those unaware these are essentially two underclocked 9800GTXs SLI-ed in one package. Pretty…
In spirit of broadening my horizons (as well as lack of interesting PC parts to fix) I bought a W10000 projector, which is fully working. Soon after I saw a…
Hands up if You think it’s time for another failed repair. I see no hands in the air, good, I also don’t like when I fail to repair my projects.…
Both of these repairs I’m going to remember for a long time, I haven’t been this confused in literal ages. What was wrong? You’re going to have to stick around…
Remember when I said that I wouldn’t delid a G80 core? Yeah… Me neither. So, I delided it. Multiple ones to be exact and also I have only one thing…