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How To: Install DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT-54G v5.0

Having a bit of free time today I decided to install a custom firmware onto my Linksys WRT-54G. Why would I do this you might ask? The default firmware is awfully restrictive and well.. plain. DD-WRT is a free Linux-based firmware that empowers the consumer with many features not included in the original firmware such [...]

Cold Enough Cascade Planning Stage

I have decided to embark upon what will most likely be a lengthy but carefully planned cascade build. This will become my primary benching and reviewing cascade to replace my underpowered but otherwise ideal Baby cascade. I am aiming at -95C loaded temperatures, cold enough to consistently bench at 5200MHz and higher but not cold [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

How To: Buy OS X Leopard for Under $40, Legally*

Digging through my feeds I found this hilarious article by Crunchgear essentially describing how to take advantage of a local colleges’ student discount that sold OS X Tiger for $40/license and most likely will be selling OS X Leopard for $40/license also. What they did very wrong was 1)mention splitting a single license amongst 2 [...]