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How To: Fabricate Your Own Northbridge Dry Ice Container

When benching there are two things you can adjust, voltages and temperatures. Increasing voltages will work to an extent but you will typically hit a wall at some point after which only dropping the temperatures will increase the frequency you can run your components at. Northbridges on Intel motherboards are very finicky chips, they will [...]

How To: Voltage Mod Your Sapphire HD3850

There comes a time when your need for speed will outstrip your computers ability to supply it and drastic measures are called for. With graphics cards you are often limited in both cooling and voltages with the stock implements given to you by the manufacturer so you must take matters into your own hands. Here [...]

EVGA 8400GS Volt Modification and Overclocking

Title says it all. I decided to pull out the meek 8400GS for a little fun along while competing in a little competitive event over at XtremeSystems. I originally purchased this card for when I’m benching to reduce the load on my powersupply in hopes of pulling a few more MHz out of the processor. [...]

DIY: Haircut

I’m a very do it yourself type of guy. Luckily I happen to be rather blessed with a rather sharp mechanical aptitude but in some other fields such as creative design and art I utterly fail. Cutting hair can often be regarded as an art form or an advanced form of trimming hedges, I myself [...]