Author Archives: ankiene
Watercooling
Finally, all parts are in and awaiting connection. This is, of course, after I figure out I needed to get more 90 degree adapter fittings to complete the loop, and had to wait 3 days to ship those. Ah well, … Continue reading
Heckler Design Onelessoffice
It finally got in! I managed to fenagle my way out of crippling shipping costs due to some family connections with a freight forwarding service, (saved about 400$ in shipping costs) with the stipulation that I had to drive to … Continue reading
G-Sync
It showed up today! No more stuttering, horrible artifacting with horizontal movement, input lag, anomalies during FPS drops, etc… Finally, we’re starting to take notice of unacceptable visual quality and practices. Even better that I nabbed it in DIY form, … Continue reading
Parts, parts, and more parts!
Sporadically, for the last 2 weeks, I’ve had my watercooling loop equipment arriving by mail, from various areas. My vendors didn’t have a few parts I needed, so I ordered them from the manufacturer… in Slovenia. Anyways, it’s starting to … Continue reading
M1 Travel case
Picked up a pelican 1550 for the M1 today: Fits well, with enough padding all around to soothe my BYOC worries.
Ncase M1 has arrived
It’s here! #297 of 1200, I believe. In all it’s tiny glory. The transfer was pretty brutal, to say the least. The case was designed to be a tight fit from the conceptual phase, so I knew what I was … Continue reading
BB’s peripherals
I picked up an Asus VG248QE – 24″, 1920×1080 native resolution, 1 millisecond grey-to-grey response time, and 144hz refresh rate. But the killer is that it is ready for Nvidia’s G-Sync module in a DIY kit form, that they will … Continue reading
BBIII (Beta) Part 2
I tinkered with the CPU last night, pushing the clock speed up to 4 ghz, in an attempt to see what kind of voltage, wattage, and temperatures I should be dealing with at that speed. My goal for that night, … Continue reading
Black Beauty Mark III (Beta)
(I say beta because the Ncase M1 isn’t here yet, and it’s all assembled on my “test bench”, the mobo tray of an old case) So everything’s in, except for the case, and what a bunch of solid performers. The … Continue reading
Parts awaaaaaaaaay!
Incoming: i5-4670k Silverstone ST45SF-G 450W PSU Asus Maximus VI Impact and the bad boy ‘isself, Nvidia GTX 780ti GK110 in all it’s glory! Perspective: GK110 is effectively 7 billion on/off switches being utilized at 875-928 times a second…
Potentia 