Posts tagged with "hardware"

Pimp'd my graphics card 2

There's something shiny PC hardware I can't resist. In my opinion, the shinier and harder to install it is, the better. Today saw the arrival of a Thermalright HR-03 Plus for my 8800GTS.

Posted by Oli 4 months ago in hardware. Continue reading »

Diagnosis? Dying HD? 2

Possibly the worst noise that you can expect to hear as a user of a computer: a HD in the process of kicking the bucket.

Posted by Oli 4 months ago in hardware. Continue reading »

Seagate is about to shaft us in the DRM 0

Seagate have today released their first DRM-infected hard disk. It's a feature they're calling "Drive Trust" Drive Trust has been developed as a complementary platform for the security specifications of the Trusted Computing Group

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in drm, seagate & hardware. Continue reading »

<rant> Launch and Hardware 0

There's nothing original about any of this. My good friend Steve of Seopher.com started his rant-acuo-us section, ranting about all the little things that manage to piss him off in

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in news, hardware & <rant>. Continue reading »

Why the RAID5, God?! WHY!?! 0

My investment in RAID5 was well intentioned. Have a mammoth sized volume and redundancy if one of the disks fails. I thought I was in heaven and nobody or nothing could touch my unsinkable ship, the HMS Titanic. Well it turns out there was something that could breach the hull of my baby. The

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in hardware, eyebrows, suffering & funny. Continue reading »

Bootable USB Flash Drive 43

Nate explores the unnecessarily complex world of creating a bootable USB drive and shows you how to make it a lot simpler than it may have seemed.

Posted by Nate 34 months ago in usb, tutorials & hardware. Continue reading »

My PSU Hell 0

Arent computers great? Just the way they work all the time without fail... Oh no, that's right, they fuck up all the time! Here is another perfect example of such a beautiful working computer. For details' sake I've got a Antec TruePower 550W power supply in my computer. £100

Posted by Oli 46 months ago in hardware, eyebrows & suffering. Continue reading »

Your hard drive is failing 2

It happens.. it always happens... right when you want it least your HD crashes, refusing to boot... Up until now you may have thought that its the end for your little HD... well not any longer... I've got some tried and tested methods that will get your drive spinning for 20-30 minute periods

Posted by Oli 57 months ago in hardware. Continue reading »