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Changing your Case & Drive LEDs

Changing your Case & Drive LEDs

OIOpublisher Making your case unique and looking cooler than it is when you buy it is what case modding is all about. Almost all cases, CDROM, DVD, CDRW, floppy drives, etc… come with green, amber, or red LEDs. In some cases these colors that come stock are the colors that you want, however if you [...]

$10 reservoir

$10 reservoir

If you have ever built a watercooling system or researched prices and components you know that it can get pretty expensive. Not everything has to be expensive though; with this guide you will be able to build a reservoir for around 10 dollars. The reservoir cost me $4, the barbs were $1 each, the J-B [...]

Installing A Thermal Probe To Your CPU

Installing A Thermal Probe To Your CPU

Not only socket thermistors unreliable in my opinion but they are also inconvenient. Whenever you want to check what your CPU temperature is you have to open some kind of software to see what it is. What happens though when you want to see what your CPU temp is when you are playing a full [...]

El Custom Shop Light Tape & Wire

El Custom Shop Light Tape & Wire

Case modification is pretty much mainstream now, everyone is doing it so you should too right? Lighting is one of the more popular aspects of case modding because if it’s dark inside your case you cant see all of the work that you have done. There are many different things which you can use to [...]

Domestickers Case Badges

Domestickers Case Badges

Glen over at www.domestickers.com was kind enough to give me my first review material for my website. He owns and operates domestickers.com. At the time of this review he has over 120 different case badges that he has designed and made. These case badges are not your ordinary sticker with a little color on them. [...]

Arkura 628

Arkura 628

Arkura was established in the year 2000 and started producing heatsinks, this particular model is the 628 which supports up to an Athlon XP 2100+. The design of this heatsink resembles that of the Dr Thermal and the Thermoengine. This heatsink is designed for quietness which seems to be a big trend in the heatsink [...]

AOPEN AX4G Pro Motherboard

AOPEN AX4G Pro Motherboard

AOpen sent me over their AX4G Pro motherboard which is a Pentium 4 motherboard that supports DDR rather than RDRAM. This will be my first Pentium 4 motherboard review so if I miss anything feel free to email me and let me know so that in the future I wont miss it. This motherboard uses [...]

AOpen AK77-333 Motherboard

AOpen AK77-333 Motherboard

I recently reviewed the AOpen AK77 Pro(A)-133 motherboard which has the KT266a chipset. The AOpen AK77-333 has the newest and best AMD chipset on the market, the Apollo KT333. The VIA Apollo KT333 is the first VIA chipset to feature DDR333 memory offering 25% more memory bandwidth to the CPU. Supporting DDR200/266/333 memory and a [...]

AGP Airlift

AGP Airlift

HighSpeed PC has designed a new video card cooling solution, it is called the AGP Air Lift. If you have ever monitored the core temperature on your video card you know that it can get pretty hot, especially if you are overclocking. This device cools the core of the video card by sucking air off [...]

Vantec CCK-6035D Heatsink Review

Vantec CCK-6035D Heatsink Review

Vantec has long been a good manufacturer of heatsinks for this I will be reviewing the Vantec CCK-6035D here are some of the specifications… Recommended For: Intel PIII Coppermine(FC-PGA)1.13 GHz and above AMD Thunderbird(Socket A or 462)1.33 GHz and above Clip Material: SK7 Heat Sink Material: AL 6063T5 & Copper Heat Sink Dimension: 65.0 x [...]