Thermalright HR-05-SLI Chipset Heatsink
I bought an eVGA Nforce4 SLI motherboard a few years ago: nice board, socket 939 and was my main system until I upgraded to Core 2 Duo. Sold my old Athlon 64 x2 4400+ but had the motherboard lying around,…
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SME Servers: Motherboard
Back in the day it was clear what a server motherboard was: it has two CPU sockets, onboard SCSI, onboard NIC, 64 bit PCI (later PCI-X) slots, extended ATX form factor and lots of fan headers. You needed a server motherboard…
SME Servers: CPU
Lets take a look at CPU choices in the SME server environment. My big reason for getting into server systems was to have two processors in the same system. Today a server can be efficiently handled with one CPU socket…
SME Servers
The term “server” has greatly evolved over the course of computing. When I started this site in 1999 servers were dual processor systems with SCSI hardware, RAID and a very solid build. Since I’m a do it yourself kind of…
Medal Of Honor Airborne
It’s been a while since I loaded up a first person shooter: I’m a big fan of real time strategy games and haven’t felt the need to rapid hand and eye coordination. Saw a few screenshots of Medal Of Honor…
64 Bit Vista
With even a passing interest in computing you would be hard pressed to have not only heard and shown interest in Microsoft Vista but also the deluge of bad press it’s received. Slower than Windows XP! User Account Control a…
KeyXL Keyboard Shortcuts
Here’s a great site that provides keyboard shortcuts for a ton of applications. I’m a DOS user from way back and enjoy keyboarding instead of pointing and clicking. A simple and to the point web site. KeyXL Keyboard Shortcuts
X-FI Mode Changer
Anyone with a Creative X-FI sound card knows that it’s modes need to be changed to get the best performance. Entertainment mode for compressed music playback, Game mode for EAX hardware support, etc. X-FI Mode Changer is a simple and…
2007/04/30: Backup
It’s been a few weeks since my last eWeakly, simply for the fact that I haven’t done anything computer related of interest. Last week Microsoft released the Windows Home Server Community Technology Preview (CTP). This put a lot more fit…