ASRock BTC Pro Kit
In building out a large project to put some spare hardware back into some kind of use, I purchased this as part of an experiment to connect graphics cards to an...
Category: Colony West
Finalizing the graphics host
In a previous article I showed how I had the PCI-Express extenders going through USB panel mount extension cables, with the intention of finishing out that syst...
Adding a GTX 680 and water cooling
Time to finalize the X2 system and also do a little experimenting. I ordered a GTX 680 used through eBay as I wanted to test how well it’d work through th...
More proof of concept
The Colony West project continues… this time with more proof of concept on the ideas I have in mind. In this case it’s hooking up the graphics cards...
Follow-up on ASRock BTC Pro and other options
I’ll just say this up front: the ASRock PCI-E extender can be a little finnicky. For some reason, the GT 620 would stop being recognized by the BOINC clie...
Adding the GT 620
In the previous article in the series on this project, I mentioned I had a spare GT 620. The card specifically is the Zotac GT 620 2GB. Unfortunately I couldn&#...
Colony West Project
In an earlier post I wrote about my plan to put a bunch of older hardware I have just laying around back to work. As I intend this to be an ongoing, evolving th...
Putting older hardware to work
If you’re like me, you’ve probably collected a bunch of older hardware that is left over from previous upgrades. And it’s probably sitting aro...
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