Absinthe – Part XX
Okay so for Valentine’s Day I bought my wife an R9 290X to replace her GTX 660 pair. Previously I’d talked about going with a GTX 970, mainly becaus...
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Rack mount HDD enclosure, part 5
Let me start off with a simple question: why has Protocase never come up in my search results before? With their Protocase Designer software, I could create a C...
Rack mount HDD enclosure, part 4
Time to admit defeat. Well, sort of. Over the last couple weeks I’ve tried several options for mounting hard drives inside the rack mount enclosure I had ...
Absinthe – Part XIX: Valentine’s Day
The title almost makes this sound like some horrible romance/horror movie… Anyone know Neve Campbell’s phone number? I think she’d be perfect ...
Beta Orionis – Part XVI: Overclocking the GPUs (or not)
Since I last wrote an update on this build, I’ve put the Watercool GPU-X³ blocks back on the graphics cards as originally discussed. I’ll probably b...
Rack mount HDD enclosure, part 3
It’s never good when a company that has so much praise among computer builders screws up your first order from them. This time, the culprit is CaseLabs. T...
Rack mount server project
Materials and components: Case: PlinkUSA IPC-G252S 2U server chassis Power supply: Enhance 1U Flex ATX 250W 80+ Bronze Mainboard: MSI K9N4 SLI Processor: AMD At...
Absinthe – Part XVIII
And here we are to the 18th part of this build log for Absinthe. There’s not much of an update on this one, though — just some more pictures of the ...
Rack mount HDD enclosure, part 2
I’ve made some progress on this particular project by ordering parts for it. I also sent out the evaluation request to iStarUSA for the hard drive rack, b...
Absinthe – Part XVII
As planned the loop in Absinthe was upgraded to three radiators. To be honest, ahead of this I wasn’t expecting it to work. A 2x120mm radiator plus an RM1...
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