Lately, I’ve been shopping for a new motherboard platform to build a new daily driver desktop PC, specifically AMD X870E chipset-based. To my shock and dismay, most motherboards with that chipset only had two or three PCIe slots since many of the other PCIe lanes have been allocated for M.2 NVMe slots instead; it seems […]
After a few months from hearing about repurposing Nvidia Tesla Datacenter/AI computation cards for PC gaming, I finally decided to buy an Nvidia Tesla M40. Technically the item is e-waste, but still is very useful for my everyday use-cases. The experience wasn’t without some bumps along the way, but was still relatively easy in setting […]
CPU Coolers/ Fans Corsair Scythe Cooler Master Deepcool Thermaltake PSUs FSP Super Flower Seasonic EVGA Corsair Cooler Master Cases Corsair NZXT Deepcool Cooler Master Thermaltake Inwin RAM Corsair G. Skill Patriot Crucial/Ballistix Kingston/HyperX SSDs/HDDs Samsung SK Hynix Western Digital/Sandisk Micron/Crucial Seagate Motherboards Asus Asrock MSI Gigabyte Graphics Cards EVGA […]
This was a small project to remedy some of my boredom due to the Covid-19 lockdown/shelter-in-place order in Washington which started on March 23, 2020. Compared to my previous computer builds, I took the aesthetic details up a notch with some magnetic blue LED strips. I had a Samsung SSD, MSI video card, and an […]
This PC build took me about one month to accumulate all the parts for the cheap, mainly due to the wait on a decent new basic video card to go on sale. Many used video cards seem to be very bad value at the time of searching through the used marketplaces of eBay, Craig’s List, […]
Today, I went to pick a pallet of twenty-four computers that I won an online auction for the City of Everett. The batch of computers was comprised of Dell Optiplexes and Precisions manufactured from 2010-2013. My Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was able to fit all the units snugly to the point that I had to place […]