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If I Could Design A Motherboard

This is one of those dream posts where I detail what is most likely impossible and expect the industry to respond. I doubt I’d ever see anything like this board, but perhaps those in important positions could take a few notes? The ideas mentioned below were the resulted after a short discussion with a friend [...]

Review: Wolf King Warrior

No, this is not some sort of video game character, this is actually what I’d dare to say one of the best gaming keyboards I’ve set my fingers to. I don’t typically game much or for that matter do anything with computers besides bench hardware but when Mike at MotherBoardPro approached me with the opportunity [...]

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 [...]

Review: Apple Wireless Keyboard

I don’t often change what keyboard and mouse I use. I’ve had the same Logitech keyboard and mouse from 2003 . Late last year I decided to switch over to a Logitech MX Revolution but I held off on a keyboard as nothing appealed to me. When Apple launched their wired and wireless keyboards last [...]

Review: Gigabyte EX38-DQ6

I’ve got a treat for you guys today. This review will be one of my most complete reviews ever. On the table I’ve got Gigabyte’s flagship motherboard, the EX38-DQ6. Gigabyte is one of the major motherboard vendors and for Intel’s Core 2 processors they have a motherboard covering every price-point from $50 to $300. The [...]

Review: Sapphire HD3850 512MB CrossFire

When one card won’t do, logic says two should do the trick. This is the logic that applies to AMD’s CrossFire and CrossFireX platforms. Typical computers have a single graphical processor that handles all graphical computation, multi-GPU setups though split the workload between the GPUs in hopes of wrangling some additional performance from the system. [...]