Category Archives: Projects

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 →

Picked up a pelican 1550 for the M1 today: Fits well, with enough padding all around to soothe my BYOC worries.

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 →

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 →

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 →

(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 →

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…

Finally! That case I helped kickstart is actually shipping! I got my tracking number even! Now what the hell do I do with this thing?

So after failing to tap the 19v DC line in through the motherboard’s internal header in a desperate bid to consolidate my voltage lines, I had one last idea in mind. (Even though this failed in my setup, it was … Continue reading →