A tribute to my under-appreciated home file servers I spend an almost embarrassing amount of time in front of my desktop PC. It's my workhorse, and the system that I endeavor to... |
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Ye Olde HTPC gets a long-overdue upgrade I built my first proper home-theater PC so long ago that I don't remember exactly when. Five years ago sounds about right, but it... |
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Portege R700 sampled briefly Though he might not publicly admit it, I think I could detect some jealousy in Scott's voice when I called to say I was hanging... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Miscellaneous Mobile computing |
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An upgrade tale 2: upgrade harder So, almost three years had passed since my last major system upgrade—downright shameful negligence for someone in this line of work, clearly. I won't... |
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Chance to win a Core i7 gaming PC Intel and a couple of its system-building partners are going out of their way to make this week's launch extra special. CyberPower and... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Miscellaneous The Tech Report |
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A tale of avarice, betrayal, and upgrading It's story time with Uncle Dusty, kids, so scoot in and I'll spin you a tale of terror sure to make spiders crawl up your... |
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On PC upgrades and diminishing returns Like many of you, I'm giddily waiting on the release of Intel's Lynnfield processors to upgrade my main desktop PC. This system is still trucking... |
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A compact, fast, and quiet PC for the kitchen If you've read our summer system guide, you might enjoy hearing the story of how our very cool Pocket Swiss Army Knife config came... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Cases Systems |
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Dissecting the Steam Hardware Survey As a cross-platform gamer increasingly disenchanted with the PC, I absolutely love Steam and what Valve has done for the platform. Over the last five... |
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The parent trap We've all been there at one time or another: fixing a family member's computer. It's not a situation I particularly mind, since my family has... |
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ESA and SideShow: A perfect match Nvidia revealed its Enthusiast System Architecture specification back in November, promising to consolidate hardware monitoring and control with a single communication protocol. The... |
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The making of the Damagebox Quad I haven't written about this yet, but I probably should before too much time passes. A couple of months ago, I finally decided that... |
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Behold Thumper: Sun's SunFire X4500 storage server In July of 2006, Sun added an interesting new machine to their lineup of Opteron-based x86 servers. It was codenamed 'Thumper' during... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage Systems Linux-Unix Servers |
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The problem with enthusiast platforms Coupled with Radeon HD 3800 series graphics cards launched late last week, AMD's new Phenom processors and 790FX chipset fill out the... |
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Kitchen computer gets a new internet stick Back in March I built a system intended to be the new family PC. The goal was to make it small, quiet and... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Miscellaneous Networking |
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