Unlocking Durons and Thunderbirds was an easy task to do, all you needed was a pencil. With the new Athlon XP CPUs this is not possible anymore. When AMD cuts the L1 bridges on top of the CPU with their laser it cuts into the CPU itself and goes down far enough to expose the [...]
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Ultra Silver II Thermal Compound
ColdCPU has sent over some Ultra Silver II thermal compound. It is similar to Artic Silver II in makeup, with ultra pure (99.9+%) micronized silver and high silver content (~75 – 85% by weight). It has a thermal conductivity of (~ 8-9 W/m*K). I will be testing it against Artic Silver II and Artic Silver [...]
Rounded Cables
If you want your case to look its nicest and look very professional, rounded cables are the way to go. You can round your IDE and floppy cables however they will not look as good or as professional as professionally rounded ones. I will not be testing whether there will be a drop in temperature [...]
Best Byte Blue Window Kit
Best Byte Computers was kind enough to send over a blue window kit for me to review. By adding a window to your case you can show off your killer machine and impress all your friends. The kit comes with the following… A blue rectangle plexiglass window, which measures approximately 12″ tall by 9.5″ wide. [...]
OCMS News January 2002
How to cut a blowhole Friday, February 22, 2002 I have been busy redoing the main page as you can see. I think this new format looks a lot better than the old. I have added a banner in-between site news and web news which randomly rotates each time you view the page, please click [...]
Gaming News December 2002
X-Arcade Solo One Player Controller Video Review 3dgameman :: Monday, December 23, 2002 “The X-Arcade Solo One Player Controller has all the solid construction and fun factor as their original X-Arcade but is designed for one at a more affordable price. This unit has many programmable buttons, works with all gaming consoles and the PC. [...]
PNY Geforce 3 Ti200
The Verto GeForce3™ Ti 200 is a member of the new Titanium (Ti) series from PNY. It utilizes the proven NVIDIA nfiniteFX™ engine and enhanced 3D Textures and Shadow Buffer features for awesome visual effects in intense gaming and multimedia computing applications. The card’s 256-bit graphics engine with Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ and HRAA (High-Resolution Antialiasing) [...]
Programming through pointers
scudco said… I hate how my teacher is obsessed with teaching all of programming through using pointers. Other than the fact that he also likes to assign problems on the midterm that are endless amounts of trick questions using pointers, post and pre increments/decrements, and other stupid shite, that is. Ahh, pointers … in C [...]
TweakMonster Light Strips Rev. 2
If you have a window in your case you know that the next step in your case modding journey is to now add lighting so that the inside of your case will be even cooler looking. There are many different ways in which you can light up the inside of your case, neons, cold cathodes, LEDs, [...]
Ur-Disk 128MB Mini USB HDD
Floppy drives are now a thing of the past or at least should be, but we still need to transfer data don’t we? CDR media is a popular alternative to floppy drives because it can hold a lot of data, and with CD burners being so fast now a days only takes minutes to burn [...]
How to Fry your USB
You can’t directly plug two USB ports into one another, they will both fry each other out (due to the power provided with USB). There is such a technology, IEEE1394 networking, but Firewire allows you to connect multiple computers by design, USB is designed so that you can’t, specifically. Also, moving onto bandwith, USB 1.1 [...]
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