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Sorry about the pics – CoolIt doesn’t have images of the Domino on their site anymore, and I was too lazy to take a pic. There are a zillion pics on the web, but I didn’t want to rip one off. Hence, the barely-representative-but-you-get-the-gist-of-it drawing. Anyway…. little blurbs, then benchmark numbers at the end. NOCTUA [...]

Recently picked up the Brother HL-3070CW from Best Buy (a great sale at under $200). I have to say, it’s probably the best printer I’ve ever owned. I’ll begin by mentioning that I’m not going to focus on speed, color representation, or any of the other stuff that most printer reviews focus on. I’m a [...]

I recently grabbed the Antec 300 for the 6-core AMD machine. I had a pile of fans in the old standard beige case, and it just wasn’t cutting it anymore. In the past, I’ve used an Antec Sonata III (review here), and I had the Sonata Piano finish before that. Overall, I’ve been pretty pleased [...]

Years ago, we learned not to buy no-name PSU’s. They’d die during the summer. Since then, I’ve read reviews, done research, and attempted to go with good solid name brands. Things have gone much better since then. Well… until this thing came along. It was bought years ago to run a system. The system needed [...]

      Preliminary Warning: Overclocking has the potential to damage/destroy components. Overclock at your own risk. Just because my settings didn’t blow up my machine, doesn’t mean they won’t blow up yours. The writeup below is subject to error and inaccuracy. If your machine dies, your house burns down, or you inadvertantly cause a [...]

I’m fortunate in that I’ve got 2 of these motherboards, so I’m very much certain that doing the BSEL mod on a CPU and then sticking it in this motherboard *won’t* work. Of course I’m unfortunate in that I’m stuck with 2 of these boards. Oh well. — The P5KPL-CM is a Socket 775 motherboard, [...]

These i3′s can really be made to scream…. or so I’d heard. After doing a little preliminary research on this chip (and the Intel chipsets it runs on), I decided to give it a go. From what I’d gathered, overclocking these things should be pretty simple. Unfortunately, the integrated memory controller gave me huge issues [...]

…well at least in Canada. Looking around the web, everything I read seemed to indicate that the Apple Time Capsules used the Hitachi DeskStar drives (presumably the 7K1000 drives), and I couldn’t find anything to indicate that this had changed. It just might have though. I snapped a photo of the drive I pulled during [...]

I’ll jabber on for a bit, and then get to the Dynex PCIGB network card pictured above. If you want to jump right to the card, scroll down a bunch! Wake for Network Access Also called “Wake for Ethernet network access” (and another name for the wireless variant), this is the wake-on-lan equivalent for the Mac [...]

If you hate 27″ screens and wanted to get the strongest video card Apple offers in the 21.5″ model, this is probably the machine you went for (or… the machine you’re thinking of getting).  In any case, the Radeon HD 5670 offered in the iMac is actually an ATI Mobility 5730m. Higher model number, but mobile chips are clocked [...]