http://www.linustechtips.com Computers, Tech Tips, paintball, or whatever I feel like... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:52:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The messaging on ECS's web site *should* make you think of high performance computing, overclocking, reliability, etc. After seeing this banner though, the first things that came to my mind were ebony pornography and racist hate-speech! It gets better though. Here you can view the "Black Adventure" flash video. Guaranteed to make ... http://www.linustechtips.com/dumb-stuff/ecs-x58-motherboard-marketing-effort-f Well, it's another gadget blog post, and for about $10-15 this thing is a steal. It uses 3 bright LEDs, a very very flexible neck, and a USB power outlet to give off a pretty decent amount of light. I'm not sure how Syba escaped our notice for so long, but ... http://www.linustechtips.com/dumb-stuff/syba-usb-led-desk-lamp Here's the problem with lifetime warranties on memory products: Who actually needs that SDRAM 10 years down the road? Corsair has come up with an innovative solution to this problem starting with their DDR2 line of products. Once the memory dies at some point when it's not even worth the shipping ... http://www.linustechtips.com/dumb-stuff/the-ram-can-also-be-a-comb ..... With some modifications. Here is a picture of the RAM Freezer 4 on top of a Gigabyte EX58-EXTREME motherboard with all of the DIMM slots populated. As you can see, if you are running 3 modules in tri-channel, the RAM Freezer 4 is just wide enough to be able to ... http://www.linustechtips.com/how-to/mips-ram-freezer-4-will-work-on-tri-channel-memory-kits Well here's my real upcoming Nehalem build. My last post about it was a bit of a joke. I'm not really good at taking night shots so this one is a little bit overexposed, which is most evident in the tubing. I'm very happy with the results of this setup ... http://www.linustechtips.com/build-logs/nehalem-build-is-almost-ready-to-go Well I had a chance to play with an engineering sample Core i7 with a Gigabyte EX58-EXTREME motherboard and 12GB of Aeneon DDR3-1333 C8 memory for an upcoming NCIX Tech Tips, and I'm actually very impressed with the platform. I've mellowed out in the last couple years going from balls to ... http://www.linustechtips.com/how-to/core-i7-overclocking-report HAI GUISE, ALMOST FINISH I7 UPGRADE LULZ XD I CAN USE MY OLD CPU FOR GAMEING? SEEMS WONT FIT SO I HELPED TO UPDATE THE BOTTOM HALF I WILL HAVE CPU BOTTLENECK NOW?!?!?! http://www.linustechtips.com/build-logs/nehalem-upgrade-still-missing-a-cpu My APOGEE GTZ i7 hold down arrived today, and looking at it got me thinking, "Do I really NEED this thing?" It looks like with some bolts, nuts, springs, and washers, it may be possible to mount your LGA775 block on LGA1366. This picture is a Swiftech APOGEE with the stock ... http://www.linustechtips.com/how-to/ghetto-mounting-for-lga775-blocks-on-nehalem Well I decided to do some follow up performance numbers that include more drives as well as RAID-0 results with the Seagate 7200.2 drives, and the long and short of it is that I will be replacing my Samsung F1 with a pair of Seagate 7200.2s when I do my ... http://www.linustechtips.com/my-upgrades/25-drives-good-enough-for-the-desktop-part-ii My quest for a suitable X58 platform began with the requirement for SLI compatibility. All of the high end X58 boards I've seen so far have that checkbox filled. The next big requirement was slot layout. Currently I'm using two dual slot water cooled graphics cards (no desire to go ... http://www.linustechtips.com/my-upgrades/gigabyte-ex58-extreme-suitable-for-water-cooling